I actually liked Dave's World. There was a bit where he set a home security alarm and had to get his family out of the house within 1 minute that had me on the floor. I was maybe 10 at the time, but still, it was funny stuff.

I had thought that New York also allowed you to sit for the exam with just an apprenticeship but I just looked it up and you need to go to law school for at least one year.

Yeah, I'm here to boff some nails with my hammer.

Quiet! Here come the ninjas.

Yeah, but I would still love to go visit Mahler in Hamburg after the poorly-reviewed premier of his 2nd and tell him "Ihr zeit wird kommen, herr Mahler!"

except the main theme is just a jazzy version of the action music from Jurassic Park. Williams wrote some of the greatest music of the 20th century, but his later stuff is pretty hacky.

The darkest timeline…

At least in the first season of TNG, men could wear miniskirts also.

hmm… after him and Stewart getting lots of flack for having him at their rally to restore sanity, I doubt he'll be having a lot to do with Yusuf Islam anytime soon.

NYC locations report: the diner where Stan takes Zinaida(?) is the "Goodfella's Diner" in Maspeth Queens, made famous as one of the diners in the eponymous film. Apparently used to be called the Clinton diner. The Americans called it the "President's Diner."

Any reference to Mahler here gets a like, however, I'm not so sure that he knew he was dying when he wrote his last works. He definitely knew about his heart condition from after the 8th, but I've read that at least until 1911 he was making longer term plans for the future.

yeah, well enough.

It definitely held my interest enough that I read it over the course of twelve hours. It's a bit too easy and the hackers are are almost literal deus ex machinas. Also that subplot with yet another misogynist stalker was ridiculous. I would have definitely read more stieg larssen books if he had lived to write them.

Favorite movie scene of all time is the carbon freeze scene from Empire Strikes Back. A lot of the impact would be lost without John Williams's music, but it would still be amazing to see in person.
Alternately, though it's not one of my favorite movies, being in the Dog Day Afternoon crowd scene when Pacino comes out…

It's San Francisco. I think they had to sign the woman up for the Screen Actors Guild and pay her something like $250 for using the line.

The Lost Symbol was a terrible book. Its ending is possibly even dumber than the ending of Angels and Demons, whch is quite stupid. The ending of Inferno, while it (SPOILER) makes the rest of the book irrelevant (SPOILER), at least has some elegance to it.

I'll stick up slightly for the adaptation of Phantom. It's not exactly a masterpiece but it does a decent job with the material. I saw the stage show when I was 15 and remembered losing the plot at the end when they start chasing him. The movie is a bit easier to follow and is decently exciting.

Send in the Clowns is a legitimate standard but yeah, I can't think of any other Sondheim number that a non-theater person would know.

No she was definitely more of a Mike Ehrmantrout (sic?) figure. A cleaner.

The courtroom video was dated October 13, 2001. Has to be an X-Files reference.