I really like how Purnsley is played.  He's supposed to be a hammy character.  He's affected in all his mannerisms and utterly insincere and manipulative.  And he intentionally annoys people.   Hammy is exactly how he should be played because that's what the Purnsley character is.

6' 6½" (1.99 m).  Name is Ted Rooney.  He's half an inch taller than Tom Noonan, who always looks huge on screen.

She's looking weathered enough to be Kim Gordon's replacement in Sonic Youth.  There's some real hard livin' on that face.   Can she play bass?

Master of the bunting base hit.  Kind of a lost art these days.

It's all part of the old-fartism.   When you're young you rail at the hidebound nature of classic rock radio, then you get older and you rail at classic rock radio for including your faves of the 90's.   You finally get the change you angrily demanded as a young man, but now your old self doesn't want the change…

Get real, you old farts.   Classic rock radio has comfortably accomodated Steely Dan, ELO, and the Cars for the past quarter century.   Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins are both far closer to 70's-style hard rock than any of those bands.    "Teen Spirit" is Blue Oyster Cult's "Godzilla" riff slightly simplified and sped…

Montrose was awesome.  I can see why VH thought Sammy would be a good fit.   Obviously it didn't work out as planned.

In his day Hendrix was vastly more radical than any the popular 90's alt-rockers ever dreamed of being.    But today Hendrix is just another oldies artist.  That's life.   Everything gets old and nothing stays radical forever.

So lame and predictable.   A basic knowledge of human psychology makes me 100% certain that every generation of rockers has felt there is something unique about their rock music — something that will set it far apart from all other rock from now until the end of time.   It's bullshit.   Time is the great leveller.  …

COURTNEY LOVE.   Get her in the band, Thurston.  You know she'll do it.  Forget about Kim.  You don't need her anymore.

A classic wrestling network would be awesome.   For many years I've heard people wax nostalgic about the WWF's golden age of the 1980's.  That stuff should be on TV.   I think there's an audience out there just waiting to be tapped.

I've said this before, but Courtney Love would be amazing as Kim Gordon's replacement in Sonic Youth, especially if she were allowed to write all her own lyrics.

This is the future of band names.  We've used up all the living species of animals for band names, so now we're forced to use extinct species.    At some point we'll be forced to use hypothetical future species of animals for band names.  Or perhaps animals from alien planets.

Actually it does seem likely.  It would mean a reduced role for Buscemi, which wouldn't surprise me at all.  He's an in-demand film actor and he might be eager to get back to movie work.   It's possible that when he signed up for BE he committed to working on the show full-time only for the first two seasons, and…

Is Nucky going to flee the country rather than face incarceration?  It appeared that way to me, though I had a few glasses of wine in me.   That talk about the struggle in Ireland and seeing McGarrigle seemed like a prelude to a getaway.  The boats in the episode's title may have foreshadowed that.   I can see…

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

But it would fill needs.

Bile.

Keane is the rare artist who could have his work published in both Heaven and Hell.

I've always thought Sudden Infant Death Syndrome(SIDS) would be a lot more fun if it were called Suddenly Dead Baby Syndrome(SDBS).