Yeah, plus, that story introduced me to the term "media strumpet"! Case closed, it was totally worth posting the link.

It's not supposed to be? I thought the MOTW part of the episode was meant, like the first few minutes of the mural component's temporary escape earlier this season, to embrace and/or subvert horror cliches quite overtly. First the trucker getting murdered instead of as per usual doing his own murderin', then the…

It's just Greek for "little" or "weak" (well, ancient Greek, I don't know modern Greek). Has a slang meaning of "impotent," so maybe good for an insult. I think the particle has the name because it's not subject to the strong force.

I think that's right, and it highlights an interesting expansion of how Hannibal's "let's see what he does" recreational activities with Will played out last season. There, Will compared himself to a wind-up toy - a mechanical device whose actions are ultimately completely predictable. Now Hannibal's comparing him to…

I think maybe both here and in Alien 3 it's a reference to the ritual called "bugonia" ("ox-birth," more or less). Actually, I think that's been kind of an overarching theme this whole season: we've had bees being born from a carcass, sacrificial animal (OK, just his leg) coated in clay, all linked to the broader…

One word: barbacoa.

I loved the little melon in the foreground on the table - its top segment cut away and something brainlike heaped up inside. I thought it must be an allusion to the Krendler scene.

What's the matter, Dave - don't you like my cane?

I guess not, but Dave Holmes has been knocking it out of the park with his recaps on Grub Street. This week's might not have been the strongest, but hey, at least something went up. The rest, though, have been making me laugh out loud, and then there are like three comments, and that makes me sad, so I have to re-read…

Yes indeedy on the mistaken identity of the body in the trunk. I'll look forward to the reveal in episode 2 that the guy in the trunk actually died from the pills someone put in his jar of jellybeans. (You'll never live that totally minor and forgivable error as long as we live, Rabin! We will find you and remind you…

I'm sure if he wanted her to consume human byproducts he could find another way a la People Beer, etc. He's resourceful!

For what it's worth, I teach college, and most of my students, grad and undergrad alike, bring laptops to classes large and small, except for the courses that are most seriously devoted to constant textual analysis. Some of them also bring pencil and paper, but everyone has a laptop on them at all times.

For what it's worth, I teach college, and most of my students, grad and undergrad alike, bring laptops to classes large and small, except for the courses that are most seriously devoted to constant textual analysis. Some of them also bring pencil and paper, but everyone has a laptop on them at all times.

Yes, it was unfortunately reminiscent of Oliv(i)er's decoy collection where he had all the models made up to look like him, with giant eyebrows: http://www.tomandlorenzo.co…

Yes, it was unfortunately reminiscent of Oliv(i)er's decoy collection where he had all the models made up to look like him, with giant eyebrows: http://www.tomandlorenzo.co…

π? You'd have to be interrupted, I suppose.

π? You'd have to be interrupted, I suppose.

Interesting! I will now use this as an opportunity to spread internet rumors about JLM's consumption of 26.2 pies.

Interesting! I will now use this as an opportunity to spread internet rumors about JLM's consumption of 26.2 pies.

Do we know it's that 26.2? Maybe it's rule 26.2 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, on Producing a Witness's Statement.