I've been wondering what it's like watching the show for one already intimately familiar with Danish politics.  Obviously, you can't really insert real-life political figures into the show as characters, but even the political party names are made-up, and there does not appear to be a news channel called TV 1.  But…

Nice.  Yeah, being in NC, I always get Panthers games at 1, and usually opt for whatever's on CBS/listening to the Bills game online.

@avclub-241b2421faecd6ca0aaa67cb80e8a634:disqus Witten is the fucking best.  He's never vastly overhyped, so he's easy to pick up after rounding out the more important parts of your starting roster and then you still get a top-5 TE.  Yeah, I feel like Witten's going to have a good season.  Probably not 19 points a…

Yay for prodigious amounds of football!  I just wish CBS had played something more interesting than Steelers-Titans in the 1:00 time slot in my area.

I don't watch much soccer these days, but yeah, the Sounders and the Timbers have some really awesome fan bases considering it's the MLS.  When the NHL inevitably expands to 32 teams, I really want Seattle and Portland to be the two expansion cities, because they both seems like really passionate sports towns.

In my 14-team league, I'll probably end up with the 2nd or 3rd highest point total and still manage to lose this week's matchup because my opponent had fucking Kaepernick, Vernon Davis, and AJ Green.
Also, how bad was the rest of your opponent's roster/how good was your roster that you managed to beat them with all…

"though only the"…"Bills game was good."  That is not something that can be said of too many NFL Sundays over the last 14 years.

Yeah, the Giants, and the NFC East in general, will never, ever make sense.  How is it that a team with a two-time Super-Bowl-winning coach/QB combo could be as wildly inconsistent as the Giants?  But yeah, I didn't like what I saw out of the Giants last night in terms of their prospects for success this season.

I think the Redskins could pull off ten wins.

Was Terry Gilliam behind the random alien abduction bit?  Because if he was, that probably explains it.

Oh, I was just mentioning the games that I watched.  But yeah, I would assume that any game that ends in as weird a score as 18-17 was probably kind of fluky.

Well, at least the Okkervil River album is awesome.

Yeah, there's actually a bit of stuff from Book 5 even in Season 3, so if you don't want stuff being spoiled, you should totally read them all before watching any more.  And you do have until February, after all.

Any suggestions on good places to start with Sonic Youth, if one has never listened to any of their albums before?

I watched the latest episode of Borgen to be reviewed by the AV Club.  It was pretty good, but seemed weaker than most episodes, although as it's part one of a two part episode, I'm mostly reserving judgment on its quality until I've seen next week's episode.

I probably don't know enough about whether it's overdiagnosed or not, but I do know that there are people who literally think it is a completely fake disease, which is complete and utter conspiracy bullshit, regardless of if what you said is right or wrong.  But yeah, I don't know, I feel like my entire post in…

"Except for homosexuals," is literally the stupidest line of dialogue I've encountered on not just this show, but on any show in quite some time.  It's just so jarringly lacking in subtlety.  Maybe it's just different in places where truly extreme intolerance is widespread, but intolerant people very rarely highlight…

What year is the Sienna?

@avclub-81fc53c51059936bda7ac43bdcb32449:disqus My little brother did have this one Hit Clip that functioned as a supremely shitty FM radio that would play as long as the batteries held up.  So for its size and cost that particular Hit Clip was an OK music player to a little kid.

I mean yeah, I get it.  And I don't hate the state as a whole so much as the unquestionably horrible policies that McCrory and others are trying to put in place.  In a time where significant victories for marriage equality are being made across the country, our state passes (by a pretty comfortable margin) a fucking…