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We used to refer to Hard to Kill as Dificil A Matar because we were certain that's what it would have been called in Latin America. Many's the time we put on the Mexican broadcaster voice and said 'El Señor Esteven Seagal ES…Dificil A Matarrrrr'

This was my biggest problem with either of the 'raid the hospital' plans. No one said anything about the fact that a hospital might be the best place for someone recently hit by a car, at least for the near future.

I've been suckered by a number of crossover events since my starting with The Secret Wars when it came out. I was legitimately a kid at the time, and was all in on the idea of these random heroes and villains all in the same place at the same time (as I'd never seen them beforrrreee!). But even then I remember

As much as I enjoy the Matthew Sweet/Susannah Hoffs covers albums (and I kind of do), I don't think it's too much to ask to have Ted Leo and Aimee Mann re-record them completely.

I actually thought Walking Dead had a pretty good year. I think Negan is just different enough from The Governor to make him compelling, and I finally feel like Kirkman has some ideas about how civilization is going to rebuild in the wake of the zombie event. And betwee the book and the show, I've gotten really

Yah, Heller's already taking plenty o' shit for the Grunge article, but the above line is all kinds of cringeworthy. 'Yuri, remember how we would literally spend a day in line for a loaf of bread just to keep from dying in the street? It's striking how similar that was to us now standing in line waiting to spend the

I like the potential for painting SHIELD as a big bad as well. It's easy to punch holes in the notion that it's preferable for a single faceless, global police force to control all this tech and magic instead of Hydra or AIM because 'Hey we're the good guys'. The X-men's Age of the Atom arc just ended with the

It's adorable that Will is going to make a single-office, Chicago firm with what, 40 partners? into a global powerhouse on the heels of near bankruptcy, a brush with disbarment, the departure of a major partner and a large chunk of worker-bee associates, and the loss of a major business client…

In addition, the girls were heavily featured in the 'previously on' promo (IIRC) despite only one of them being in this episode for just a moment…

UGH, the girl from Paramore. Aka Hot Topic employee of the month, Topanga Mall, June 2007.

Deep throat albino snake multi-racial lesbian threeway thread

Speaking of 'Mad Men', I just caught the episode where Joan…did what she did to help SCDP land Jaguar and got a similar pit in my stomach when it's implied that Diane threw Will under the bus in this episode. While Joan partly did what she did for selfish reasons, her main reason was in service to SCDP, whereas here

Close second is the current 'Take Back the Night"

I think this is actually a pretty insightful statement. Punks were aggressive in their politics, but their physical aggression was confined to specific places and directed against one another. I suppose the intelligence and earnestness of a lot of punks could have been intimidating, but never as intimidating as the

I generally consider myself a Sam when it comes to this show, but this episode reminds me that I am truly a Neal. And I see him on the same continuum as Chandler Bing (from Friends, who I also identify with). I figure Neal is just going to go deeper into sarcasm and fear of intimacy that he's going to have a hard time

I always wondered where that piece of casting came from. His role was so minor that it probably should have gone to someone you'd never heard of.

I've been keeping up with all of the lantern titles (with the important exceptions of Red Lanterns and Larfleeze) and I am seriously considering dropping them after getting re-engaged in the Johns era. There seem to be some pretty glaring continuity issues (didn't this Relic guy first appear 4 issues ago?) and the

Sean Penn and Robert DeNiro, plus Davy Crocket, Marcus Garvey and Maureen O'Hara. But then again, David Koresh.

I started a Hulu sub specifically for the purpose of rewatching Crime Story. Can we get some AVClub recaps going when Freaks and Geeks concludes?

I maintained a high degree of obliviousness well into my twenties, despite managing to lose my virginity at 15. This culiminated at a wedding where the stage was set for an FFM threeway (the Holy Grail for bros like me) that I completely missed out on, despite being told by a number of people that it was a very real