I unexpectedly found myself in a city last night where this is playing and loved almost every minute of it (the blast of violence referenced in the review was the only off bit; it would have been better left implied or not as much). I went in knowing only that there was a twist in the middle, which is pretty much…

Nobody goes to Jeb's house for Thanksgiving.

Putin: "Goddammit, where is it? It's gotta be in here somewhere!"

The guy's cousin was in the White House, the scion of a family notoriously nasty about closing ranks when family is attacked. Bush was hardly an anonymous NBC flunky.

I'll mainly remember Aquarius for one of the goofier online streaming schemes. They pre-released the entire season on Hulu for the first few weeks of the broadcast season, then pulled all the unaired episodes and put them back up on the usual Hulu schedule (the day after broadcast). So anyone like me, who didn't binge…

He's never been a particularly dynamic actor, check out his early stuff like "The Rapture." I remember reading an interview with him and Gillian Anderson together where they praised Anderson because her personality was so different from Skully's, then later praised Duchovny because his was so much like Mulder. He…

You must live in a part of the country where Singapore Rice Noodles are way more reliable than mine. There's a place in the Twin Cities I absolutely love, but since moving west haven't been able to find anything close. My own attempts have been sorely lacking.

Every Massuman curry I've had is built around potatoes. So that makes it Thai/Persian/Inca. That rocks!

Fry some Thai curry paste, add coconut milk, boil your protein and veggies, serve with rice, so, so easy. Making your own curry paste is fun, but a pain. Too much pounding. Most Thai buy their paste at the market.

Be careful not to mix up "spicy." Years ago in South Korea, I had an entertaining dinner with someone scooping in mouthfuls of kim chee I could barely tolerate, waving off Mexican food as "too hot."

Geez, with a name like Godunov you'd thing he'd be good enough to do the job, but, alas, they didn't speak English. Isn't that always the problem?

Rocky Rococo, pizza amore. I worked there in the late '80s. Mediocre pizza, but I learned the coupon scam there. I love that Subaru is sort of using the same ad campaign today.

Jez is a Britishism I like a lot. At work we recently interviewed a guy named Jeremy, and I wanted to hire him just so I could call him Jez.

I'll throw out some classic Tolkien: Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, and those sneaky Sackville-Bagginses, Otho and Lobelia. Meriadoc Brandybuck and his cousin Peregrin (son of Paladin) Took. Samwise Gamgee is a great mix of low and high, appropriate for the true hero of the story.

I'm so eager to meet him I changed my name from starting with a 'Z' to starting with an 'F'. Not too much longer, I hope.

Generalissimo Gustavo Fring, no less.

Ya got that backwards, bud! (I'm assuming it was deliberate, but the Internet makes things confusing).

I love Subarus and try and only drive manuals, but the 5-speed I had in a Forester was a piece of junk. Replaced the clutch three times in 140K. My Protege5 has more miles than that on the original clutch. I hear the 6-speed is a lot better, that's a better upgrade than just the clutch, if you can swing it.

I'd rather have this bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy!

In the movie they describe it as a 10-hour flight; the one I was on was over 15, that's all I was going on. Apparently a real Sydney-LA flight is close to 14.