This is going to seem like a dickish stickler comment but bear with me:

"Language begets structure and engenders movement. Just as the cliched advice to improv performers would have it, the engine that drives everything is “and.” Sorkin wants to create a show with generosity that shows in the page length of the scripts."

"Language begets structure and engenders movement. Just as the cliched advice to improv performers would have it, the engine that drives everything is “and.” Sorkin wants to create a show with generosity that shows in the page length of the scripts."

Any reviewer worth his salt would know that the criminally insane amputee was wielding a sickle, not a scythe. Thanks for teaching me the difference, Adventures of Asterix and Obelix!

Did anyone else watch the Ted/Cootes almost-fight and flash back to the Utter/Wolcott argument-and-definite-fight in Deadwood?

Whew, I just read all the comments to see if anyone addressed my question but it seems unmentioned so far:

I apologize that I'm commenting with personal dudgeon but really, VanDerWerff? Really "one of California’s less leftist campuses". Davis?! I agree, forget the '60s protests, forget that the Whole Earth Festival has been held there for over 40 years, forget the cooperative housing at Baggins End a stones throw from…

Stephenson's Reamde had a pretty decent takedown of how grammatically fraught the use of apostrophes in alien/fantasy languages are.

This is a super minor point, but does anyone know why the limo was clearly driving on the wrong side of the road in its second shot? That's kind of been itching at me for years