I figure at least Robbie is a character I have previously enjoyed on his own merits, rather than Guest Star Boyfriend #42 or whatever.

Yeah, as a lady myself I appreciate the attempt, but my second draft would be to take landmarks/streets/etc. that are actually named after men and replace them with an interesting woman alternative of some sort.

Amen. I had completely stopped watching TV for awhile there in the early 2000s for that reason, and this is the show that brought me back.

Yeah, sexiness aside, I thought that Jordan's character was fantastic. She's a dark, self-empowered inversion of the (poorly-written by dudes) naggy '90s sitcom wife.

Occasionally Fey's would slip into something recongizable, but also sometimes something… Southern?

Well put.

Yep, agree 100%. I find it a little frustrating because projecting those U.S.-centric concerns onto a foreign nation is itself… not quite racist, and not quite imperialistic, but… lacking a trans-national perspective? Assuming that the way things are in the U.S. applies to the world at large? Maybe U.S.-centric itself…

The international thing is key to me. This is a Chinese co-production right? Because this is where the idea that the sovreign nation of China needs to be "protected" from Matt Damon being in a movie starts to come across to me as a little condescending. China has a film industry that has a lot of influence, and they…

On the other hand, I would like to reappropriate "Cousin of Gay" for the name of my new glam rock indie band.

Yeah, I was thinking what would the reaction be to "CBS greenlights sitcom about Korean war"?

I love this. I have no joke to make. This just really makes me happy.

Yes, that header image is correct. Just, correct, in general, vis-a-vis Kate Bush.

It's a great example of a double album that absolutely works as a double album. Even if you don't like the title track, you might like it (at least a little better) in the context of the album as a whole on a listen-through.

"Death to My Hometown" gets super intense. I cheered on Occupy as much as the next guy, but the first time I listened to the song, I was like "Whoa there Bruce you are super mad about the robber barons."

I love love love that song. The song and the video together are like the antidote to all of those "dudes ogling babes" rock songs out there. Like, instead of casual mysogyny, the theme comes across as "I really like women, like, in general, as human beings. Old ones, young ones, all colors and creeds. Just, women are…

The River (the album) was my favorite soundtrack for my college-days all-nighters, starting out bright and peppy, ready to pound out this 10-page paper on Middle English verb usage, slowing down in the middle as I realize after an hour that it's still only two pages double-spaced, pepping up again for a second wind,…

One thing I feel we haven't mentioned from Working on a Dream is "The Last Carnival" which I can't listen to, because it makes me too sad. With the callback to the early '70s via "Wild Billy's Circus Story" and the saying goodbye to a band member, it's basically a song about "Guess what, beinggreen, all the members…

"Frankie Fell In Love" sounds like it should be the second number in Swamps of Jersey: A New Broadway Musical Experience Based on the Works of Bruce Springsteen, introducing us to its leads Frankie and Frank, Italian-American working-class twins who weather the ups and downs of US history in the late twentieth century.

I thought the same thing. It would have been nice to have the opposite on the list (a remake of an American movie by a foreign film industry) once or twice to balance it out.

Don't ask me, I'm metaphorically sitting with a big bag of popcorn and large soda in the first row of the theater that is TV Club Classic's Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman coverage, patiently waiting for the show to start. (In case you are wondering, by this point all the ice has melted and the popcorn has been stale for…