If Blitzer got -4600, does the March of Dimes or whoever have to pony up that money? "Well, we were going to save these crippled children, but Wolf Blitzer blew all the money playing Jeopardy. Blitzerrrrrr!!!!"

I thought the whole point was that we *don't* know Stanley well enough to know whether he'd have an affair or not. Or, more to the point, his co-workers didn't. There was a moment last season where Kevin mentions his fiancee left him, and Michael has no idea what he's talking about and ignores him. As much as he…

What else would NBC put on in that third half hour? Much easier/cheaper to just let the show run down. As for you the home viewer, do what most people do and turn it off after an hour. Or after ten minutes.

And to answer D's question, can you name a better '75-'89 comedian, Jonesy has the correct answer. We also would have accepted David Letterman.

The book alternates chapters between a chapter on the label, and a chapter on a particular band. The bands are Superchunk, Magnetic Fields, Neutral Milk Hotel, Lambchop, Spoon and Arcade Fire. Each band basically represents a different stage in Merge's growth - most of them were high water marks in sales, but the…

Big Day Coming
I agree that Painful is where they took a step up. The amazing thing is, it's been 15 years, and they never really took a step down. I can't think of another band that's played for that long without any real decline.

Westchester's north of the city. We imported him from there.

Costas is funnier than Leno. They should have put him on at 10:00.

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And that's why he's the King, folks!

Sean and I are leading parallel lives - I've also had drinks w/ Janeane (she made everyone brownies and was super-nice), met Jarmush (at a Bill Murray film festival in Brooklyn, no less), and Tarantino hit on my wife before I knew her. Also met Lou Reed and David Bowie on the same day (both briefly), met Yo La Tengo…

That last one wasn't limited to our teenage years, for most of us.

What about coffee? Think about how many steps are involved, and it's virtually inedible/undrinkable at every step but the last one. So it's not like someone was putting ground up beans in cold water and said, "this is pretty good, but I think we can make it better!"

I love seeing Hulk-As-Tobias. If Cross drops out of the Arrested Development movie, we know who to call.

Oh, but everyone cares what *you* think.

He looked more like Elvis before the beard. Which I don't think is doing him any favors, but that seems to be his method of becoming Canadian.

Hang on just a minute. Lamest names, sure. But lamest powers? Let's see… invisibility, human torchiness, nearly indestructible, stretchy. Okay, stretchy sounds lame, although in practice it would come in pretty handy. Compare that to some of the other superhero powers out there - talking to fish; shrinking to the…

That's why FF is the greatest comic of all time. Dr. Doom is his real name! He's Victor Von Doom, and he has a PhD. Presumably from Evil Medical School.

Also, to pre-empt the backlash to that statement, I'm not claiming YLT and TMBG are the best bands ever, just that neither went into a serious decline, which pretty much every other band ever does after 10 years at the latest. The Beatles were smart enough to break up before they released "Oh, Yoko" b/w "Silly Love…

It's a shocking travesty that any record company would release an album catered to anyone besides bublsort. How about this - we shut down all the record stores, and we can just send you a copy of "Now That's What I Call An Incredible Douchebag vol. 28" every month?