@avclub-d009e8b6ce98ad61a7b7a69cd1ad10d9:disqus :  "if ever there was a hell on earth, it's Dallas County."  (Randall Adams, The Thin Blue Line)

Just make sure there's no index.

Well that's just unwarrented.

"America was never innocent.  We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets.  You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances.  You can't lose what you lacked at conception."  (James Ellroy, American Tabloid)  And that's how you start a novel about the Kennedy…

WHAT is the dealey with all these adaptations?  Would anyone love to field that question?  Will they all just be camp?

"No, that's Loki you want.  Three cells down."

Good luck with the UT plan.  I shall light some incense or perform some ritual for you to assist with your success.

Hannibal did take him down a peg or two, though.

I think he was a Hannibal victim/dinner in book and movie. ("Best thing for him, really; therapy wasn't going anywhere.") In the book, Raspail knows Jame Gumb, which is how Lecter knows Gumb is Buffalo Bill.

House of Leaves and a corrected-text Ulysses.

But do they all call her Alaska?

"I rewatched the 2BG pilot a few weeks ago"—stop hurting yourself like that.  Every time I caught a line from one of the 2BG commercials during an NFL game, my soul died a little.

I did promise that I'd finally get around to Deadwood and The Wire.

I watched the first two episodes (which is two more episodes than I'll usually watch on TV) and was impressed.  Be aware that the feeling is definitely atmospheric fantasy, much more Twin Peaks than Manhunter (let alone Zodiac).

"Is this going someplace?" I love that, because it has the same feel of Jack telling Miles "if they wanna have Merlot, we're having Merlot"—Malcolm has had this kind of conversation with Jamie before.

Lost Gag Reel:  Cheech Marin performs Jackface.

For me it was David Rasche, basically playing Donald Rumsfeld—he played him as a man who was deliberately stupid, like he'd decided things and then used his mental energy to block any new thoughts from coming near him.  (George W. Bush came by his stupidity naturally, but I felt the rest of his administration had to…

"too-close-for-comfort jokes":  also, the treatment of the PWIP PIP report is pretty much what the Bush Administration did to the National Intelligence Estimate about Iraq.  It's amazing how dangerous you can make anything sound when you take out all the conditional phrases and probabilities.

Without question, Cerie's finest moment.  (She's puzzled but also genuinely curious, as she's heard of this phenomenon but never experienced it.)

YOU'LL ALL BE GREENZOED!!