"Younger… younger… technically a Polanski."

At the risk of out-hipstering @avclub-89085904f0bffdb18e6df50da71ac0f5:disqus , I've never even seen a full game of baseball that wasn't part of Nippon Professional Baseball.

Especially in a review where the critic in question carefully spells out exactly why he thought the show was merely decent and added the caveat that his opinion of this season could well change based on what happens with the show in future.

I think what's actually happening here is that Todd thinks this is an alright show while people like you and I think it is a very good show.

That at least I remember! However he clearly wasn't inner-circle until after the stuff with the Secretary of State replacement and education bill. Still, most of my experience is with a unicameral, parliamentary system (NZ represent!) where the head of the party usually selects the whips as some combination of a…

Edit: Comment posted in the wrong place as I am semi-literate.

@Scrawler2:disqus  My views on the show have generally been shown to be wrong so far but I got the impression that he was not initially a close confidant of the President (he doesn't even meet with him until about mid-season, does he?) but that he made himself invaluable via the education bill and Secretary of State…

I do now.

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Yeah I guess you're right, I figured he just wanted the power of having the governor of Pennsylvania beholden to him? I don't know, I had been under the impression that the whole thing wasn't masterminded by Frank but that he was incredibly good at improvising plans B - Z once plan A failed, rather than having an…

You'll have to excuse me, I consumed these all over 48 hours so they tend to blur…

I got the impression Russo wasn't chosen to fail but that Frank held on to the option that he could destroy him if he went off the reservation, which he ended up doing.

BBC actually made a 4 (?) episode TV series of Dirk Gently a couple of years ago, sadly they couldn't get Dylan Moran (who I agree would be amazing) but they did get Stephen Managan from Green Wing and, these days, Episodes. I saw one episode of it and thought it was really good, though suffered due to what appeared…

I remember reading that they were planning on doing all three of the Gently books as 6 episode series but then the producer left and I believe they only did the first.

At university we had a Homer in a mumu toy from Burger King which we had turned into a pipe for smoking illicit substances. My flatmate who worked at the cinema one day brought home a garbage bag filled with popcorn. We then used the fat Homer and ate from the garbage bag of popcorn whilst watching A Bridge Too Far…

I had a Barney burping beer opener that had the same effect.

Dirk Gently

This is my recurring post on a weekly comment thread full of them. Mostly because this one is a first-come, first-serve kind of deal.

I thought he was playing Hipster D Bag in that one?

Thanks to the three of us (http://www.avclub.com/artic… ), there have now been 3 sex jokes about Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters on this website in 24 hours.