All these Mad Men articles this week, and the discussions, remind me how sooooo much has happened in this show's seven seasons… I've watched it faithfully since day one in July 2007, and now I can't keep it all in my mind! So many stories, so many characters, and considering how glacial the pace can be at times…

BREAKING NEWS: A.V. Club Commenter Misreads Sentence, Makes Comment About It

As far as real life, her "Ice Bucket Challenge" would be the closest you can get, so far…

BREAKING NEWS: AV Club Commenter Misreads Sentence, Makes Comment About It

It's Don Ohlmeyer, an NBC exec in the 1990s, who was a longtime close friend of OJ. The story everyone tells (such as in Warren Littlefield's book "Top Of The Rock") is that Ohlmeyer coaxed Lorne Michaels to remove Norm Macdonald from Weekend Update. I think he was fired from SNL a year later. By all accounts,…

That's the second time in a few days that I've seen someone use "cack-handed," and up until then, I lived for thirty-eleven years without encountering the phrase even once. Is it something recently en vogue?

I'm a big fan of Joss Whedon (as you may have guessed), who has mentioned his penchant for listening to film scores while he's working. Some of his interesting choices were Rachel Portman's Never Let Me Go and John Williams' Memoirs of a Geisha. Both are intriguing scores, as are the Sondheim musicals Joss adores,…

I can't listen to Holst's Planets while sitting at my desk at work, because Jupiter always causes me to stand up (and my arms usually start conducting of their own accord).

One of the great things about Bach fugues is how well they work in transcriptions for all sorts of instruments or ensembles. I love hearing the richly involved counterpoint on guitars, because every note is so distinct on plucked strings (as with the harpsichord), compared to the organ, piano, winds, etc. Also…

Best defective product ever! Until last year I used the Blockify program to mute the ads, which otherwise were ludicrously intrusive (quiet music punctuated by a used-car salesman? No thank you). But now it's gloriously broken. And i'm not even using the standalone version, just the web player.

I used to go to Grooveshark a lot; I still use it sometimes to find things missing from Spotify. By comparison, Grooveshark always seems rather ramshackle — is it basically just whatever people have uploaded? Many bits and pieces of albums, but often not whole… Sometimes with track numbers, sometimes not, sometimes…

Spotify, Spotify, Spotify! I can't stress that enough. What a great resource, and all for free, and all without ads, apparently — at least for me, the free web (non-mobile) version suddenly stopped playing ads about a year ago. I'm not asking any questions.

Hilarious! But seriously, the oncoming traffic doesn't deserve your personal misery. Off yourself, sure, but do it solo. Meanwhile, keep looking for that life-affirming music!

Last Comic Standing isn't really my thing, but if someone makes a show with comedians sitting around bullshitting, and it features Norm Macdonald and Anthony Jeselnik, I'd watch the hell out of that.

From J.B. on Curb? I think it's "e-jackalate", Moist.
(There's a sentence I didn't expect to say.)

How is it selfish to stop making his art? Because we the fans have lost out on what may have been lots more great stuff? It's his choice. He's just a guy with a talent; he doesn't owe us anything.

Model them? They just need to hire some fine ladies of varying boobage, to come in and demonstrate natural boob motion. They could start with Katee Owen, Tessa Fowler, Anna Song, Yulia Nova, Rachel Aldana… I could go on. (It's for science.)

The lamest thing about all those fake, unauthorized C&H products — which means 100% of them, since Watterson never, ever licensed it — is that they weren't even funny. People who think that that crap is basically equivalent to the strip, or that Watterson was smug to refuse merchandising, just don't get it. They…

Well how about that: Adult Wednesday Addams. Hadn't seen it. Hmmmmm… Yup, this will do. This will do juuuuuuust fine.

Did Mike empty Fenske's and Hoffman's guns at some point? I can't figure out when. It looked like Fenske took his first shot but came up blank, and had to go reach down and pull another weapon.