It's interesting that on Family Guy Brian is clearly Macfarlane's onscreen persona, and is criticized incessantly.

Well, some of them. Quagmires father was conspicuously absent.

@avclub-ba51e6158bcaf80fd0d834950251e693:disqus : I think that happened for a lot of us then and there.

You should go to oblivion and let them know he's on his way.

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My friends up there distill Absinthe, Rum and Moonshine. I don't even want to know what I left up there two weeks ago, or what I bought back with me.

I live kind of off 9W and spend time in Schenectady/Troy all the time. This episode was for us what half the shows on television must be like for Gothamites.

There's a big old prison there which is visible from the thruway. The jokes just write themselves.

My children need wine! Who are you to resist it, eh?

They resolved the sex w/MJ as borderline rape issue by having him decide to masterbate furiously to Peters recollections of their history instead. Problem solved!

Yeah, Harbinger was my least favorite of the old Valiant titles but this is awfully promising. Aside from the inexplicable direction they went in w/Torque

I've been throwing that out there since the villain said it during the intro to Hitman 2: Silent Assassin. Which was released in 2002.

I just assumed GLADOS was on the Borealis.

The second Portal was the best Portal movie you could ever hope for.

@avclub-8a14b82d2920257eab416dd8615d5a4b:disqus : People root for him for the same reason they root for Dirty Harry or Frank Castle.

You get to watch him get beaten down enough that it's fairly worthwhile.

Lately: A biography of the primary template of Margret Thompson from Boardwalk Empire: http://www.amazon.com/Story…

Vidal's book about Burr is damn fantastic. I've been meaning to reenact the duel at Weehawken on it's anniversary every year w/paintball guns but it always falls through.

They mention in passing that he's alive and in Bolton custody a few times, like at the wedding.

Venture Brothers premieres on May 19th, and if my calculations are correct GOT is going to celebrate the event with a wedding.