is your name not Bruce? Mind if we call you Bruce to avoid confusion?

second that (you flipped the name around - it's "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu"). Every collection of sportswriting I've found have included it - definitely a triumph of the field.

It's like "Bambi" meets "Full Metal Jacket"

didn't Pete Townshend do an acoustic set for one of those Secret Policeman's Balls, when he was completely strung out?

Oh please, we all know what the show is going to be called
I Loves Me Some Me … And I Loves To Wuss Out Going Over the Middle

this shit just got real

well, nobody's perfect

I think the point here is that Rabin is the Mr. Blackwell of the AV Club - he's bitchy for the sake of bitchiness

I saw Frost/Nixon this weekend too. The actual interview segments were pretty dull, but the rest of it was top-notch.

not counting the mezzenine

who was in the black pajamas, Walter?

It's from Shakespeare (King Lear, I think): "I am mad north by northwest"

well, in baseball, there are plenty of righties who bat lefty, but few lefties who bat righty (Rickey Henderson is about the only successful one)

I've heard only love can bring the rain, which falls like TEEAAAAARS, from on HIIIIIIIGH

One of the Sopranos episodes Buscemi directed was Pine Barrens (Paulie and Chris and the undead Russian out in the woods), one of the best episodes of the show, for what it's worth

I'm-a make these Soggy Bottom Boys my brain trust!

I don't think Slumdog was meant to "tell truth about a part of the world you've never seen." It was a fable, a Bollywood Oliver Twist.

I went into Slumdog expecting to dislike it - I mean, I hate sappy unlifting Oscar-bait in general - but I kinda liked it. Not worth a Best Picture nomination by any means, but not a bad movie.

a chipper (a franchise, actually) here in NYC is called "A Salt and Battery"

ideas for Obama's Secret Service codename?
I'm going with "Baller"