I'll say it again: Sally is going to become Merry from American Pastoral. Around season 8, Sally blows up the SCDP offices, accidentally killing Harry Crane, who was working late to call Hollywood. In Season 10, Joyce shows up to shake down (and very unsexily proposition) Don.

Book 1, Lines 24-26
"That to the height of this great argument, I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the $500 million budget to studio heads."

I believe there are more than a couple Skinemax-type movies that were specifically based on Lot & his daughters, or the Canterbury Tales, so those ideas have already been done. Although not in 3D…

Grant got praised because Truxton was making a point of NOT PRAISING Kale. Will got congrats for his team (despite the temper tantrum), Grant got praise for doing jack, and then Truxton just gave Kale a withering glare. I think that whole sequence transcends passive aggression into a whole new realm of saying "fuck…

Being largely used to the Xtreme Dew, I always get thrown when The Kinks mention "And they drank mountain dew and they lived on the food that they grew at the side of the mountain" in "Mountain Woman". It calls up this image of skateboarding hillbillies. Good to know it made a lot more sense when they wrote it (and I…

The point I was making was merely that Tom Waits' list serv taught me to talk online about illicit activities behind the protective veil of a fake name. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some bums to set on fire…

Actually, Black Rider was the first Tom Waits album I listened to (although I later discovered I had heard Bone Machine in someone's car before), and it turned me into an annoyingly obsessive Tom Waits superfan. I paid $100 to see the Raven show, for Christ's sake (although it was worth every penny).

Rain Dogs
Who else was part of the Rain Dogs list-serv for Tom Waits fans back in the prehistoric internet of the 90s? I remember, at one point, we put together an exquisite corpse-style short story that someone was going to throw onstage during one of Waits' rare concert appearances (probably the Paramount show, but…

There's two kinds of polls when it comes to politics: behavior prediction and opinion. In the former, the format of the question is always the same: who will you vote for in X election? It's really hard to bias that without being pretty obvious ("will you vote for the American war hero or the secret muslim?"), so all…

I'm with Persimmon and earlier posters who's names I have forgotten - I think the show's been going for a much more subtle storyline with Betty/Gene/Sally than generations of incest would allow. Rather: Betty's childhood sucked, and she mostly hated both her parents. The thing with her dad copping a dementia-induced…

Christ - I was around for the other brief revival of popular interest - when Frisco returned from the dead while I was at the end of elementary school. As the only person who knew how to program our VCR, I set it up for my mom so she could watch them after getting back from work, and quickly found myself getting…

"Incepted" > "Inceptioned"
The "-tion" makes the verb "to incept" into a noun. The "-ed" is the past tense form of the verb "to incept".

My wife suggested CO, but I was pretty sure he hadn't started the car. Still, it felt like the editing at least was making that suggestion.

I'm convinced the final season will involve Sally joining a thinly-veiled analogue of the Manson family; this show has American Pastoral written all over it…

You're all wrong - this is the sixth fail, as Botaraje was pretty clearly making a firstie attempt, as well.

Actually, Tooby & Cosmides are emphatically not the poster-children for the notion that genetically-based racial differences in IQ are plausible, as one of the things they say that gets left-wingers annoyed with them is that all humans have the same naturally-selected cognitive architecture which arose before the…

I would just like to repeat my factually-innacurate-but-still-fun theory that Dawn gave Joyce a brain tumor. Cuz Dawn sucks.

Yeah, reports on the internet are mixed, and I can't get to my DVDs, but she either says "Dawn is coming" or "Little sis is coming". I think you're right, though, and it's the latter.

Correction - Faith says "Dawn is coming" in season 3; Tara say "Be back before Dawn" in season 4.

Dawn, you're killing your mother
So, I know this is not canonically correct - I think on one of the commentaries someone comes straight out and says the Joyce's condition is entirely natural, and has nothing to do with anything mystic - but I always liked to think that Joyce's tumor was caused by the extreme trauma of…