Yeah, listening to Leonard Cohen is like doing some sort of breathing exercise.  You resist at first, but then you start to feel better once you get used to the slowness.

I'm a good egg.

I agree.  Apart from "Jenny and the Ess-Dog," I'll give "Hook" an indulgent listen, then maybe "Church on White" and "Jo Jo's Jacket" (which admittedly has an awesome, batshit video), but whenever I listen to his first Jicks/solo album, it's ejected in pretty short order.  It's never grown on me the way Pig Lib and…

The thing is, both the episodes you cited ended with Louie with his tail between his legs. He humbly asked for the casino job back after Rivers told him to quit whining and just do the job he was lucky to have in the first place, and after he recognized the decency and professionalism of the "Sam" character; and the…

Anyhow, it seems to me that the segment was structured so that C.K. was built up as some unique creative genius at the rewrite roundtable, only to be exposed during his lunch with the VP as being as full of bad ideas as the roundtable hacks, except his cliches are of the noncommercial faux art-house variety.

I wasn't sure at first either, but I think there was some genuine self-awareness in the "Ellie" segment, like when C.K. talks about the guy in his pitch being robbed and left with nothing in the middle of nowhere "not even credit cards," and wonders, "What do you do? How do you get home?", only to have Ellie…

Is the dog in the play? (I wish the play would tour the U.S. Seeing it is on my list of things to do in London.) I thought the dog and the inconveniently located hand-crank power generator provided the setups for the most tension in the TV movie.

I'm pretty fond of The Lady in White, with the exception of the godawful blue-screen phantasmagoria at the end.

"And if the ghosts *are* real," I meant.

I love haunted-house movies too, and I hope this one is as promising as it looks. The last such movie I was excited about was Insidious, and I thought that sucked.

What I love most about the show is its expression of Louis C.K.'s ardent curiosity about the human condition. It's not a matter of him being a critic or a contrarian; he genuinely wants to figure people out, including himself. Even at its most misanthropic, it's incredibly humanizing. I've never seen a comedian so…

My take on the episode wasn't that C.K. finds the Ellen character tragic because she limits herself to an inhibited life, but that he's surprisingly intrigued by the eroticization of abstinence — that, for her, abstaining from sex is like foreplay building up to an unabashed consummation made all the more mind-blowing…

The only self-awareness Dane Cook revealed with his "Louie" appearance is that he knows a lot of people hate his guts, so of course he'd jump at the opportunity to win a little credibility and sympathy by doing the show. He seems to be aware that he is disliked and is considered a joke stealer, not that he fucking…

If you see Kay, tell him he may see you in tea.

"By my life, this is my lady's hand. These be her very C's, her U's and her T's, and thus makes she her great P's."

"So we beat off, balls against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the ass."

"Oh, my girls, however long you may live, I never can wish you a greater fuck than this!"

I read Vonnegut's books during my impressionable teen years, and they messed my head up so much, I had to see an analrapist.

Apparently I'm showing my support by making a five-year-old Daily Show reference.

So, you work at the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library. You jackin' it?