Night Owl was Moore's Blue Beetle I analogue.

"For anyone wondering why the world still needs local news shows in the 21st century"

We'll see. It's certainly possible they got it through sharing needles or as an STD at this point. But, that said, viral mutations have to start somewhere — maybe it changes on the west coast first.

Maybe I'm mis-remembering, and I'm guessing we've all repressed memories of the farm season to some degree, but as I recall, Rick finally blurted it out just as Sofia or someone rises from the dead, making it clear that you no longer have to be bitten or scratched to be infected.

The virus was only spread through bodily fluids originally. The fact that everyone eventually was infected, presumably through airborne versions of the virus, was a plot point that ran from the CDC guy whispering it to Rick to its eventual reveal in the second season.

LAUSD teacher salaries start at $45k and cap out around $80k.

Not initially. The big twist at the end of the first season was that the virus had mutated — at first, it was only spread by contact with bodily fluids. It doesn't become airborne until some point after that.

By design, or just by virtue of being filled with bureaucrats and those that support them?

It's baffling that this isn't available digitally.

Turning on the captions helps with stuff like "Sumpabeh." (It wasn't "Sumpabeh.") (I noticed the same issue with this week's Good Wife review, which got a character's name wrong.)

"a then somewhat fringe-dwelling grocery store item"

For the first time, will someone on the Walking Dead actually say the word "zombie?" How ironic that the zombie apocalypse would occur on a world without an zombies in popular culture.

The Brick from Northern Exposure, no question.

I remembered this film kind of fondly/defensively, and then rewatched it when I saw it was available to stream via Netflix. The first two segments are AWFUL and Roth seems to be having some sort of seizure on screen throughout.

I'm looking at "Blur the Line" in iTunes right now, and "Why Can't I?" isn't anywhere on it. Are you sure this isn't from an upcoming album?