All I can add is, thank God I'm a cunty boy.

Sabre-tooth manatee shrugs, says "It's a living," pushes prehistoric idea ball.

What's interesting about Cosmos is that it still feels like a revolutionary TV series, even 30+ years later.  You can still get the sense of the series being a summary of television's potential as an educational medium, and within it see the seeds of everything from Ken Burns to the Discovery Channel.  I think this…

Yeah, I re-watched Cosmos last year.  It really is an amazing series, simply for its ambition and Sagan's unabashed faith in human intellect and curiosity.  Watching his long plea for nuclear disarmament decades later, I'm struck by how ballsy it must have been to put that to air in 1979.  And that he makes his case…

I'm talking about keeping our pants zipped and our wicks dry around here!

And Eugene Levy was Captain Sternn.  Life is indeed a rich tapestry.

Was that his stage name?

In keeping with Todd's shout-out to Richard L. Bare, he also wrote an excellent nuts-and-bolts book on directing film, titled "The Film Director," strangely enough.  If you are a young(ish) filmmaker and looking for a good primer on old-school foundational technique, do seek this out.

Kind of the female version of George Hamilton, then.

And for similar reasons, it's why she doesn't mock a killingbird.

The Digital Bits and the unfortunately-named DVD Beaver are the best sites for this kind of thing.  The latter posts side-by-side stills for comparison between older and newer transfers, and bitrate graphs, among other wonky tech details.

Well, if that's the case, that'll free up Joel McHale to play Moriarty.

I got as far as Billy Crystal looking like Daffyd from "Little Britain" for some reason in that opening movie sequence, and then gave up.

Waiting for Dobbs to flip out and start screaming about how appeasement for Yertle the Turtle will mean peace for our time.

So, House it gonna end?

Bela Tarr really should direct a Super Bowl ad before he retires.

Rick Deckard.  When we last left off, he was twice as quit when he come in here.  He's four times as quit now.

You asked me once, what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is Tiger Blood and Winning.

She's singing about Steve Howe.  Must be a continuation of Chris Squire's Set List from yesterday.

Inversely, has anyone ever covered Ramones tunes as 18-minute space-rock opuses?