My favorite zombie movie, and my favorite end-of-the-world movie too; it gains so much by staying in just one set for almost the entire running time.  (Why yes, I am the guy who felt The Road just wasn't dark enough, literally and figuratively; why do you ask?)  The only thing that matches it for sheer fucking despair…

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I'd agree with you, except that the dick-on-the-notepad joke just ends with that, but the Dildo Rocking Chair gets the great tag with McDormand ("Oh my God!. . .That's fantastic") and Clooney ("I'm not really set up to mold hard rubber."  "Hm.")

I am embarrassed to admit that I thought that just before he said it.  Also, I have said "I was hoping to bike there," but not when going to meet a disgraced CIA operative.

The TI is the Tolerability Index, a long-standing feature here that no one reads anymore.  It posts usually around noon Eastern time on Wednesdays and has become a regular meeting place for pretty much the whole commentariat, not just the Communists.  Recurring features include the Fashion Thread, Online Dating…

The similarity of the voices is a common problem for first-time writers, so I don't have a big problem with that.  Brooks gets a lot of praise from me for his inventiveness (chapters on North Korea and tunnel fighting) and rigor (the story of Information Reception, the battles of Yonkers and Hope), though.  On the…

I thought that if you dropped the oral history format, and cut maybe 1/4 to half the material, you've got a perfect movie trilogy, with the first movie going to maybe the Battle of Yonkers.  Ending with that would be like the ending of Kill Bill v. 1:  you will get people wanting to see what's next.

Grab season 1 and start watching.  You'll most likely be hooked by "College."

It's not just that he played over six seasons one of the complex, scary, and sympathetic characters fiction (all fiction) has ever seen.  It's not just that he played that role down to the smallest fucking detail of walking, inflection, even breathing.  It's that he played all his roles with that kind of depth, no…

Remember also that The Sopranos was shot down by a lot of networks not just because of nudity and violence (and ER had already changed the limits of the latter) but because Gandolfini wasn't good-looking enough.  Let's try imagining, oh, Tony Danza (in a daring new role!) as Tony Soprano and all just hit our heads on…

Shawn Ryan has been absolutely clear about this:  without The Sopranos, The Shield doesn't happen.

My personal Best Supporting Actor choice that year went to James Gandolfini and animators for that role.  Goddamn I'm doing a lot of crying today.

I dunno, most of these jokes are pretty dom.  Can we sub in some actual writers here?

I remember watching 8mm and seeing Schumacher give him muttonchop sideburns, fake sweat, and making him tongue a gun barrel, all of which made me say to the former Mrs. Wallflower "right, because James Gandolfini on his own ISN'T SCARY ENOUGH."

OH FUCK NO

It's not their greatest song (see above) but it's their most definitive song. It's what you play to someone who has (somehow) never heard of Steely Dan.

They dissolved to the same shot! may be my all-time favorite riff.

7. Bad Sneakers
6. Glamour Profession
5. Babylon Sisters
4. The Royal Scam
3. Deacon Blues
2. Kid Charlemagne
1. Haitian Divorce

"This Woman's Work" is very high up on my Songs That Make Me Cry Like a Little Girl with a Skinned Knee list.

Ain't never gonna do it without the fez on.