Yeah, that makes a lot of damn sense, doesn't it? I must automatically love the music NPR champions because I listen to NPR. I listen to NPR for news, not their taste in music which generally tends to be boring.

That's an interesting track
It's an interesting track, but this album is just screaming "NPR Approved!" to me. I've heard about this album twice on NPR over the past week and a half. Sure, I listen to a lot of NPR, but I don't get their sort of bland incredulity when it comes to music. "It's Robert Plant of Led…

hmm
Here I am trying to prove my manliness by listening to the whole thing without slitting my wrists and it stops at 5:09 to bufffer. What shall I do now . . . what to do, what to do. Ahh well, I guess I'll slit my wrists.

is it just me
or wouldn't most albums be better as an ep? It's hard to think of a single album that doesn't have one or two songs on it that I could have done without. Sure, cutting down a full album to 5 to 7 songs might occasionally be difficult, but it's not inconceivable.

Weird, was that last week's entry? I clicked on it from the front.

Peace on Earth and Good Will to Men
I think I prefer the 1955 version. At least talking Christian rats make sense after a nuclear war.

This just makes me realize
how little fiction I actually read. I think I've read 3 books on that list.

Suspending disbelief
While I had the same problems that Sean did with a lot of stuff, one thing I had trouble with was when the Paraguayan terrorist yelled "allahu akbar" before swinging his machete at Jaime. "Allahu akbar" is Arabic meaning "god is the greatest." Are we to assume that Paraguay is infested with…

Strange new powers?
I seem to be able to delete other people's comments. Is this intended?

Well, we are getting closer
to fast food restaurants serving popplers, but I guess interstellar space travel is a little much to expect at this point.

open letter to Awokener
"awoken" is a word. check your dictionary.

XAA
Hey, Xaa, I graduated from law school recently, though I am thankfully not a lawyer. Nonetheless, I appreciate your problems with law in the movies. Having seen this one today, I can report that it is actually quite realistic. Without giving away too much, the only part that wasn't right was a deposition. What…

are you kidding?
I had a long comment written, but my browser screwed up and dropped it before I could hit post. To sum up:

screw this show
I don't think I could bring myself to actually watch this after seeing the promos which ran throughout the summer. I really can't take the coastal snobbery which maintains that the Midwest is filled with nothing but bigoted ignoramuses. The central theme of the show is that it will be somehow strange…

Children, Vitamins, and Viagra
Those three items go in the not funny file. How do I know? Well, they did it on Two and Half Men. Why do I know that? Well, for some cursed reason, that damn show comes on after Seinfeld reruns here.

A little disappointed
The Office has probably been my favorite show of the past two years, and I was a little disappointed with the season premiere. It was often very funny, but I'm worried that some of what I liked is slipping away. The premiere was definitely more jokey and direct than the show has been the past. …

one more thing
I was kind of happy to see Stephen Tobolowsky join the cast. He's a reliable character actor that can make the show a little more fun.

It was OK
For whatever reason I am willing to let a lot of the complaints slide, but I did have a couple issues with the episode. First, as mentioned, Mohinder seemed to be out of character in the opening scene. Worse though, that scene just didn't work. It was clumsily written and performed.

Social Theory Refuted
I hate Alan Alda.

love it
I love this. Finally TV is abusing children.