Most of the problems with Neverwhere can be chalked up to a tiny budget and not enough time. To do the story justice, you really need 12 episodes on AMC, HBO or FX. On a personal note, I read the book years before the DVD of the mini was released here in the US, so I was annoyed with a lot of the casting choices.

Through the darkness of future past
Mel Gibson longs to see.
One chants out between two worlds
But first, you will blow me.

Holy crap, that idea for a Waits & Perlman show sounds awesome. Needs more Iggy Pop, though.

Quincy! (Dodges thrown beer cans)

Than watch TV, and have a couple of brews.

Be sure to check out "Emperor Doom". Doom's confrontation with the Purple Man is the very definition of badass.

I understand that a lot of people enjoy reading through a print daily, but the economics don't work. Business Insider wrote a great piece last year where they totaled up the costs of puting out a print edition of the New York Times, and it is twice as expensive as simply buying all of their subscribers a Kindle and…

I prefer to think of him as Champion the Drinker.

It's probably a little on the nose, but I always thought that they should have Eugene Levy play Leonard's dad.

My earlier comment was a quote from the ever excellent "Mr. Show" and was meant to mock the original poster.

"I don't watch television or any other kind of entertainment that's approved for the masses. Notice I call it television and not TV, 'cause TV is a nickname and nicknames are for friends and television is NO friend of mine!"

The worst first date movie is "Your Friends and Neighbors" (or pretty much any Neil LaBute movie). And Doozler, any girl that doesn't like "Shaun of the Dead" is one you're well rid of.

That's how I found out about the book as well. I love Klaw's baseball analysis, but I almost prefer the book reviews and food articles on his blog.

Well, you should have seen the cover they wanted to do. It wasn't a glove, believe me.

Thome has been an offensive juggernaut throughout his career (as have Biggio and Bagwell for that matter) and absolutely belongs in the Hall of Fame. One-dimensional? Thome does everything a hitter should do: get on base at a high percentage and hit for power. Defensively, he was only average as a third baseman,…