Didn't say it was necessarily a perfect analogy, or the only thing the episode was about, but I definitely saw a similarity.

Was it just me..
…or did anyone else think that "Conundrum" was presenting another Middle East analogy? Small power hijacks a much larger power (via a weird kind of psychological leverage) to use in making war on its enemy. I always thought it was a commentary on the USA's "special relationship" with Israel.

I'm a fan of Henry Rollins…
…for the music.

Anyone like Stephen King?
I guess if you own a copy of 'IT,' you might also be fucked.

Japan was great, but they're still not a patch on Sylvian's solo stuff.

Radiohead. Total mediocrity for one album, bursting with potential on the next, and all kinds of sheer fucking brilliance from there on out.

The entertainment world is just too full of them.
Ozzy/Sabbath. Phil Collins. The Stones. Michael Jackson. Neil Young. DeNiro. Tarantino. Damn, just thinking about the number of examples is depressing me.

Oh yeah, Bowie was one of my first thoughts too. Ziggy Stardust to Tin Machine. Who would have thought it was possible?

The ending of the first Matrix sucked ass. Not just because of the ridiculous "I love you" thing, but mainly because it turned what could have been an intelligent metaphysical quandary into a dumb-as-dirt (and tediously drawn-out) action shootout.

Oops. Well, that does make the idea sound loads better.

Fuck.
Can't we put a punishable-by-death moratorium on any and all new Muppet Xmas features? Like, as of 15 years ago?

I don't think PJ didn't *get* what Tolkien was saying. Nobody could have made the Scouring coda work in movie form, not after all the resolution that came before (and the post-Mount-Doom stuff was still three times too long as it was). The story seriously loses something vital with that section gone, but there was…

whew
>>>never get tired, never leave them, never break their heart?