Keith Richards' and Mick Taylor's solos in the middle of "Sympathy for the Devil" on Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out are fucking awesome.

The Walking Dead lost me when they failed to cast Danny Trejo as the Governor.

May I, however, tell you the odds?

Breaking Bad didn't end the anti-hero genre, it simply did it better and more movingly than most. Obviously the author needed Walt to be Satan if his piece was to have any meaning, but that premise is belied completely by the redemption Walt is given in the end by being able to go out on his own terms. The author…

I saw that coming a heil away.

Actually, if memory serves, it was Jesse who came up with the train heist plan and made a point of telling Todd that there could be no witnesses.

Your points are well stated, and I don't really disagree.  I don't want to argue a lot about a show that I love so much.  Maybe it's not important whether we classify Walt as evil or not evil.  My post was a (no doubt clumsy) reaction to a lot of other posts that made it seem that, for a lot of people, the endgame of…

No, Jesse didn't deserve that.  I cut Jesse all the slack in the world.  He's one of the show's most endearing characters, in spite of all the nasty shit he's been complicit in all along.  His moral anguish is his major saving grace.  But I cut Walt some slack too.  He's been fatally damaged by his naivete and…

He didn't kill the kid.  If someone was evil there, it was Todd.  Does Walt have moral culpability?  Sure.  But if you plan a bank robbery with someone, and that person goes crazy and starts killing bank customers, does that make you evil or a monster?  I would say no.  Responsible and meriting time behind bars?  Of…

Well, I was being flippant with that one.  Though the poisoning Brock subplot is probably my least favorite point of Breaking Bad.  The stratagem always seemed murky and clumsy.  Jesse was supposed to believe that somehow Gus had discovered the ricin, and then decided to use it on Brock . . . for some reason?  Even…

What does a brother have to do for an A+ around here?

I'd add Hang Time to that as well.  I've actually got love for most everything prior to Grave Dancer's Union.  Hell, Grave Dancer's is not a bad record either — I just hate that that's the one that exploded on MTV and formed everyone's impression of the band. 

I'll make the case for 49:00 as the best solo Westerberg.  The first five songs are the best opening lineup since Pleased to Meet Me, and while the rest of it goes a bit more experimental after that, there's still so much enjoyable stuff.  Part of me would like to see a slightly more produced version of this, with…

I don't know.  I think, song-by-song, he might line up just fine with any of those artists.

Oh come on.  The soundtrack to my 1980s Minneapolis adolescence was a sweet mix of the Replacements and Motley Crue, so I'll never hate on Nikki Sixx, but please.  I mean, replace Motley Crue with Metallica or something and I'd at least give you the benefit of a "to each his own."  But I don't think I've ever seen…

It is definitely an imposing object.  But once you're in it goes fast, propelled by all those short paragraphs.  It's a page-turner — all 1,000 of them.

Agreed with Black Orpheus.  Don't condemn Mailer until you've read The Executioner's Song.  Books don't really get better than that one.

Yeah!  Fuck this guy who didn't say what you said he said!  And fuck all the entitled pricks who … who … enjoy comedy?

Is this an Amy Schumer sketch?

"…while Badger and Skinny Pete rehash the concept in what looks like Abed and Troy’s Imaginarium."