"We see him again at the end of this episode, mowing a cemetery lawn in lazy, flat circles"

Actually tmz has an interview with him. Looks like he was a real pizza delivery guy. The Oscar producers picked him up in a big SUV and drove him to the show.

I'm guessing the oldest daughter was sexually abused and is acting out because of it. Recall that she drew the sexually explicit pictures in school. She also arranged her dolls in the same arrangement that as Cohle's beercan people. I've got my money on Marty being the one complicit with the cult since he has all…

I believe in her agency over her body but I sure don't support the right of anyone to have a couple dozen kids when we already have 7 billion people on the planet and resources will become ever more constrained in the future. Not to mention the affect we already have on the environment. If every family on the planet…

Currently reading Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick which is quite fascinating.

I really enjoyed The Twelve, quite a bit more than The Passage. Now I'm eager for him to get the third book out in that series. I've been toying with reading the Night Film but I've read a number of reviews that said it bogs down in the middle. What do you think of it?

I think this makes sense. I think Marty is the complicit one. I think his attitude toward controlling women's sexuality marks him and his daughter was probably abused by the cult. She was making those explicit drawings in school and arranging her dolls in the same formation as what Cohle did with the beer can…

Same here. If I like the author or have already started the series in book form, I keep buying in book form. For the rest of those books that I read and then donate to the library because I have no interest in keeping them - those I buy in e-book form. That way if I were to ever lose all my e-books I wouldn't be…

I'm glad to see the obligatory 1o9 aliens pic has been posted.

Can't forget this one.

The Daily Beasts interview has rolled off the front page so here's a link to it.

I wonder if those same kids helped name that giraffe when he was born. Lots of zoos ask the public to help name their young animals when they are born. Supposedly the giraffe was only 18mos old.

If this giraffe was redundant genetically and therefore not worthy to be in the breeding pool, I'm wondering why he was allowed to be conceived at all. Surely this zoo should have known that a match between his parents was not ideal. Why were they allowed to mate. Shouldn't the males and females be kept separate to…

These Raiderettes start their season … in April, and they do not get their one and only paycheck until the following January …

Shouldn't there be some basic issues the IOC committee considers when evaluating new sites to host the Olympics? Things like can that city currently provide clean water, drinkable? Do they have an adequate health care system? Do they have a large population of strays that could be an issue for travelers and if so…

Eh I visit old people in nursing homes. The ones with kids are just as lonely as the ones without.

How about, there's less of a downside to believing in God and being wrong than the other way around.

Hey lots of pretty colored eye candy. Eva Green and Lena Heady in kick-ass Greek-themed armor. Sword fighting. What's not to like? I'll be there. I'm sure the rest of these poo-pooers will watch it on Netflix.

Stoopid scientists, working on the wrong things obviously.

I can't be the only one that thought the guy looked a lot like Robert Pattinson.