::crosses fingers and hopes for special guest appearance by Nancy Reagan::
What's that you say? Barbara Bush? Eh, I'll take it.

Yeah, my unsuperhappiness with the new Prudence and my horrible need to procrastinate at work are currently engaged in an epic battle as to whether or not I keep reading that column.

If you stumble upon a Slate long-form article (usually written by an invited outsider) they can be good.

I realized very recently that I hadn't been listening to music as much as I used to, and that made me sad, and that the reason was partially related to format. There used to be times when I had free time and I'd leaf through my CDs and pick the one that best fit my mood, pop it into my discman (yup) and then spend…

But then your music is at the mercy of Apple. Which is fine, I guess, but I personally don't like it. Stop being so nosy about my stuff, Apple.

Except the Downtown Abbey one up there is absolutely correct. It was so ridiculous that it doubled as the show's jump-the-shark moment. After several previous hop-the-piranha moments.

As much as LOST went off the rails in the end, it definitely remains the reigning champion of "having men who take their shirt off."

If Mac truly develops on this point, then he may even edge out Charlie as the new nominee for "least bad member of the gang." Go for the (least far away from the) gold, Mac!

Yeah, Mac's views have always been way more extreme than you normally find even in Catholicism. Like, the official word on homosexuality that we got in Catholic high school in the '90s (around the same time Mac would have been there) was the fun convoluted message that being gay is genetic and not a choice and…

I'm going to judge this based entirely on the header image above, but it's nice to finally see a show with a sensitive, nuanced portrayal of an Irish-American family, right down to the traditional giant pot of leprachaun's gold on the front lawn.

I liked the songs a lot, but the non-song parts are what made it a great show instead of a pretty-good show.

Especially when it turns out that even the dump was only affordable because of the ol' New Zealand dollar mix-up.

Oh, I couldn't resist. Sorry guys.

And by "play" I sincerely hope you mean "musical."

SPOILERS FOR KAGEMUSHA
I love Kagemusha.

*falls into a nigh-bottomless moons of the solar system wikipedia hole and takes several hours to climb out*

It would also seem to me that we're going out on a limb a little bit to contrast Egyptians with "white dudes." Is there really that little overlap between North African and other Mediterranean ethnic groups (Southern Italian, Greek, etc.) that are traditionally considered white? Is it more of an ethnic group thing…

This one too! I thought I was the only one!

"A good long stretch of Only Yesterday is devoted to fifth-grade girls learning about menstruation, and how they live in perpetual fear that the boys will think they’re having their periods. Disney probably had no idea what to do with that."

I guess that while technically "gun-toting" as a captain he spends most of his time doing paperwork…