I once had a very long conversation with a girl who believed that porn was wrong because it objectified women (this was in college, when one has such conversations). I countered that porn didn't exactly present men as exemplars of intelligent, courageous individualism either. I like to think I won that argument, but I…

He took Zamir to Buffalo for his rust-belt episode (Baltimore-Detroit-Buffalo). Hilarity ensued.

that episode also makes the nifty prediction that the 1999 Yankees would be one of the best teams ever (okay, the 1998 team was one of the best ever, but still, close enough).

one of my favorite factoids about DS9 was that the writing staff didn't originally have big plans for Eddington, but he had such an unusual screen presence fans starting speculating that he was a Founder infiltrator. So they changed things up and made him a Maquis turncoat. Pretty clever.

daaa-hohohohohoho

I love Buscemi, but I've never been totally sold on his casting as Nucky. Nucky's big talent is political, and it always seems to me that he's supposed to be a charming, outgoing, gregarious sort (or at least someone who can turn it on when necessary). Buscemi can do any number of things, but gregariousness isn't one…

It's a ski cap to me. And I'm from New England, so I know from ski caps

Who Dat Ninja!

the marriage? It's a FAAAAAAAAKE!

sha?

the Devil and Homer Simpson, anyone? It was written by Conan O'Brien!

their NYC was uncannily accurate, until they had missions that took you to not-Roosevelt Island, real life home of fuck-all in Roosevelt Island.

after playing Assassin's Creed for too long, I always found myself walking down the street, looking at every building, and thinking "so, can I climb that one?"

Gladwell is really at his best when he is reviewing someone else's research - he' very good at picking an argument apart. But when it comes to doing something that depends on his own research … yeah, the bullshit comes thick and fast

I thought the pieces on Iceland (small country of fishermen who suddenly found themselves with a ton of money and believed they could be international financiers) and Greece (thoroughly disfunctional relationship between the government and the people, to the point where it's assumed that only suckers pays taxes) were…

compliments about Ben on the AV Club remind me of what David Lee Roth said about music critics liking Elvis Costello

I'm of the opinion that Stripped is the only truly exceptional thing the Stones have done in the last 30 years. Man, if only they had taken the cue and went laid-back, acoustic, country-rocking again

A MOTHERFUCKING PLUS

good show, but it's too bad they haven't a moment as funny as the one in the original fake trailer with Rob Riggle saying "I don't negotiate with terrorists … because I AM ONE!"

or a fjord