More McHale?
In the words of Charlie Sheen, "Bring it!"

—Sanjaya—

Is that Michael Winslow one-man show a real thing???

Completely Random
Here comes another way-late-in-the-game post that I'm hoping will get responses but probably won't. I noticed, in the montage of Andy destroying his old computer, a very quick scene in which he was reading a recent New Yorker - one from January of this year, if I remember the cover correctly. That…

Surprised
That Pitchfork didn't give this a BNM just for loyalty's sake. Then again, I'll be REALLY surprised the day they don't give a new Animal Collective album a BNM. Although I guess they didn't give that recent Avey Tare solo joint one. So, yeah, don't know what exactly I'm trying to say.

Who still watches this?
If ever there was a show that's one note, it's this. If you've seen one season, you've seen EVERY season. Surprised that it purportedly still gets good ratings. It has become, in the shouted, British-tinged words of GRam, "Crap!"

Yeah, had some laughs, but definitely didn't seem funny enough for a second season. As with the second season of Bored to Death, if the first show of Todd Margaret's second season isn't convincingly funny, I won't follow it anymore.

The big O should be for orgasm, so the awards show could be all about the best music to get your swerve on to.

"A genuinely soulful performance from Owen Wilson"
I laughed harder at that line than I probably would at anything in this film. Come on, really?

^^Because most movies, especially sex-joke laden rom coms, are utterly smooth and believable?^^

Never been to The Ace. I was assuming The Deuce was mocking the often douchey level of hipster striving any number of W Hotels present.

Count me with those who think the act being called Sparklepony was a bit insensitive to the memory of a guy who just recently passed away. There were surely hundreds of other goofy band names they could've come up with.

Another agreement that it, surprisingly, doesn't seem atrocious. Phyllis and Jason Segel seem to be bringing the funny. And Diaz as a bumbling teacher seems much more realistic than Diaz the deep-thinking Satre disciple in The Box.

Some of those cities?!?!
Is he playing the old Borscht Belt circuit?

Exactly how I felt about this special. I wanted more dirt from backstage brouhahas. Guess I'll have to finally get around to reading the SNL oral history book for that.

Hoping for more Crazy Ira and the Douche (and their hilarious random sound button pusher dude) in future episodes. Actually made me fondly remember something about Jimmy Fallon's time on SNL—his crazy morning zoo character. "Man in the box - get back in that box!"

OMG, yes, "Pocket Knife" is redunk good. I remember reading somewhere that Robert Plant and Allison Krauss thought about covering it on their album but decided it was just too damn good to mess with.

Also concerned about the lack of mention of "Is This Desire." Just reaffirms my own personal feelings that that is her most underrated, and possibly even best, album. The title track is sublime, opener "Angelene" is perfectly crafted, and in between those bookends there is nary a misstep.

I saw someone walking down Fairfax a couple of weeks ago with a "Fuck OFWGKTA" t-shirt on that I'm going to go ahead and guess was one of the members of the group, since that seems like the kind of self-deprecating humor these dudes are into. So I'll go ahead and count that as yet another obscure celeb sighting.

Soundtrack
I'm guessing will include Jeff Buckley's cover of Benjamin Britten's "Corpus Christi Carol." Or how about Pavement's "Father to a Sister of Thought," for its "Angel of Corpus Christi/You're so misty" line? I've always wondered if that was Malkmus taking a sly swipe at Buckley.