I'm still waiting for Tyrannosaurs in F14s: The TV show.

I've always taken

Book of Mormon
I saw it is this weekend. It is great.

To a significant degree, it's a genre thing. You have a superhero and a noir detective - they have different capacities and they live in different worlds.

Pembleton is a force of nature, a preternaturally skilled interrogator, an avenger of wrongs, and a self-righteous prig. He wears humongous pants. McNulty has some of the same righteousness, but his verges into tough-guy cop righteousness, while Pembleton is righteous like a churchgoer. Andre Braugher creates an…

I find it a little weird that, after watching an episode in which the main character narrates her own rape, and her complete inability to get any justice for that rape, that you think the show will be about a character who can't be hurt.

What's Wrong with TCM
I think this review gets almost exactly at what's wrong with Top Chef Masters.

Now I feel guilty for my bitchy last paragraph. If it sounds like I'm bitter and jealous, odds are it's because I am.

Ehrman's "Introduction to the New Testament" is easily the best undergrad-level textbook for New Testament studies. There are chunks of it that I wouldn't teach - the stuff on "Gnostics" and early Christian orthodoxy and heresy is really sloppy - but overall, it's a very worthy textbook. On of the key issues is…

No. Here's Why
One of the things that made The Wire the greatest artistic achievement of our age was not merely its ambition, its political conscience, its sense of humor, its love for every character it portrayed - it was also a show which focused its story on the American underclass. Poor kids in failing schools,…

It's actually explained in the lyrics what "that" is. It's a total fucking letdown.

Dale's win
It should be noted that Dale not only specializes in Asian cuisine, but he works at Buddakan in NYC, so he' must be used to covering a crazy number of tables in a night.

***SPOILERS***

fightin' for her client
wearing sexy mini-skirts
and bein' self-reliant

I am fairly certain that when fighting the literal hordes of hell you can never get too hard ass. Wesley Wyndham Price is about the only character in either Buffy or Angel who chooses to deal with the threats in a manner appropriate to their seriousness.

But that's also not how growing up happens. It doesn't happen in a single moment. It happens over months and years. We see the Buffy characters choose to start growing up in the finale, but we don't actually see them grow up. Growing up isn't choosing to commit oneself to relationships, to be responsible to one's…

No, even worse.