Ah shit. I had him friended on Facebook, and I knew he had health issues, that and things had gotten very, very bad, but this is still a punch in the gut.

He spent seven years writing Hamilton.

I know it's not really a big deal, but it's still a lot of fun to find out an artist known for one particular mood or style or genre is a fan of something that's tonally of the opposite. Like Terrence Malick liking Zoolander. It's just the cognitive dissonance of the thing, y'know?

It's almost as if he's the least qualified or prepared seeker of the US presidency who scored a major party nomination in the entire history of the Union.

I think he's doing it strategically.

Batcow says "EAT MORE CHIKKIN"

Dormammu, I've come to bargain…

…….

I loved it, and I don't think he could have ended it any other way.

And the mannered voice.

He has SOME convictions. That he's the most important person in the universe, that he needs to be the center of attention at all times, that a woman's worth rests primarily in how much she sexually appeals to him, and that he's a great businessman.

Based on what, man?

As if the world wasn't already a vile enough place today.

Tell me about it.

Five is when it stops being formulaic and starts being innovative! You picked the wrong book to quit on.

I never noticed until now just how much Neil Patrick Harris is like a mini David Hyde Pierce.

That's what I thought—cable is privately owned infrastructure, so it shouldn't apply, unless they rewrote it.

I saw an article yesterday that suggests Obama may be trying to preserve his legacy by complimenting Trump into submission. Convince him that Obama's ideas are actually Trump's ideas, and getting him to flip on them, basically.

It's been well over a decade since I studied the FCC, so I can't remember—does the equal time rule just apply to broadcasting (because the aether belongs to the people, i.e. radio frequencies are legally held to be a public resource, not a private one), or did they also extend it to cable networks?

Matt Damon is a mensch. It's cool how he made a point of commissioning a script from Lonergan, and used his own star power/pull to protect him through every stage of the project.