This was an excellent remembrance of a career that, for all its weird lacunae, ranks him as one of the last, and last great rock stars.

Honestly it's not even close. "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" is the only other contender, and Craig is so much better an actor than George Lazenby that you might as well be talking about two entirely different species.

Apparently covering that song has been part of their set for years and years now. So if it was a note, it was a chronic one rather than acute. Until it wasn't, I guess.

I dunno, to my mind that's actually sadder. At least if it was suicide there was some intent behind it, some considered thought that he'd weighed the alternatives and found the others wanting.

Voltaire said that to the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth. And Roger Ailes was deserving of no respect even when he lived.

Everyone is fighting their own battle, more often than not alone.

Well fuck.

Squirrel Girl is amazing, possibly the best thing that Marvel is publishing right now. And it's written by the guy who started out doing Dinosaur Comics, so it's also proof that sometimes good things happen to good people.

Nelson reckons that won’t happen. “I think I have the edge in that no one’s going to stop liking dogs anytime soon,”

I choose to believe that it was autoerotic asphyxiation, but your path is also valid.

Bob Christgau, in his capsule review of Superunknown, hit the nail on the head: they weren't a "grunge" band or a punk band or any of that noise. They wanted to be Zeppelin, and unlike all of their peers they actually had the chops to do it.

Goddamnit. There's not a lot of music from my college years that I find worth returning to these days, but I still play "Superunknown" on the regular. And with all due respect to Shirley Bassey, "You Know My Name" was the best opening song to the best Bond film by a long, long yard.

I wonder if Fox News will start hiring brunettes now? Roger had a type.

Belatedly I realized that this is more or less exactly the plot of one of John Scalzi's "Old Man's War" novels.

All the Sarah Jane bits were awesome, agreed.

I have the usual laundry list of issues with the way RTD handled the series, but bringing back Sladen and giving her a full spin-off series of her own was absolutely fucking awesome.

Krause-Rosenthal was a professional writer, and the column appeared under her byline in the New York Times Magazine — no way in hell was her estate not getting 100% paid for this, and good on them.

The Rosenthals had three kids; hopefully this nonsense will feather their nests and then be quickly forgotten.

I feel like there's some obvious crossover synergy potential here! Our recently widowed hero is suddenly famous and going on a lot of dates because his wife wrote this amazing heartstring-plucking personal ad for him just before she died of cancer…

If Clara deserved three entire seasons, then by extension Liz Sladen deserved to be re-cast as the Doctor and play the part for a solid decade.