Oh man did "On the Turning Away" hit me when I was a teenager with all the feels.

"How Long Do I Have to Wait For You?" -Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
"Groovy Baby" -Billy Abbot & the Jewels
"When a Man Loves a Women" -Percy Sledge
"Wish You Were Here" - no, not Pink Floyd—haven't you picked up that this is a soul/R&B playlist yet? - ahem, Gene Chandler
"Cross the Tracks" -Maceo & the Macks
"The Lady in…

Eventually became un-numb. Went to a parade, and while I was generally disgusted by the jingo-ists in both the parade and audience, there was one group making mild fun of the whole affair who had an adorable dance routine with folding beach chairs that started to put me in a better mood. Then I went cherry picking and…

I have never not traveled with a book. And like Laura, I almost always scope out the local booksellers. One of my geekiest guilty pleasures is the little collection of bookmarks from places I've bought books. I'm traveling right now and I have bookmarks from Books & Books (Coral Gables & Miami Beach—I've shopped at…

Goddamn the Pusher man.

I really enjoyed We Have Always Lived in the Castle and recommend pairing it with Barbara Comyn's Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead. I don't know what you'd call this subgenre, but they both have a kind of matter of fact, dry delivery of the macabre that I enjoy.

Bummer for Michael. Against average competition he could've racked up a nice string of wins.

I'm a fiction reader. This month's highlights are the 2nd book of the Jeff Vandermeer SOUTHERN REACH trilogy, the third of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels, and BIRD BOX by Josh Malerman, which is a good, suspenseful little book kind of like THE MIST mixed with WAIT UNTIL DARK.

topical!

This makes sense to me. She's definitely his wife in the scene, though. That camera move into the bar comes up on her with left hand clearly in view and be-ringed.

Nice article, Mike, and thanks for going into the deep cuts. I've never heard of this one. I'll throw in two critiques about the "bar hostess" (imdb) / "bar owner's wife" (Darin's v/o) / "the woman" (your article). I'm not quite sure why the whiff of misogyny at beginning of the bar scene is changing your thoughts (it…

I had Strom, knowing it was probably not correct, Missus had Byrd, a way better guess. If I had been more focused, I may have picked up on the key extra detail "Jan 2009"—at least that's what i tell myself in the hopes that i get on the show some day and don't blow it.

I honestly think Sarah was defeated—gutted, even—by the failed DD and couldn't come up with anything. In my mind, Obama wasn't a real crack at the answer, but literally the only name her mind could produce. Niki fucked her up when she got on fire in Thursday's Double J. Once Niki had the buzzer working, Sarah went…

Since doing OK on the online test, I've been poking around the J-board. Both Mara & Chris are active there, and apparently they chatted about it before this game. Nice to see people with their heads on straight in the game.

Have had the same thought. Herbal liqueur tastings in the Alps, sake in Japan, beer in the Czech Repub to go along with Scotland.

Or the side-eye I'd get for watching a horror movie everyday in October.

Similar. I knew scapula wasn't it, but couldn't think of anything else.

Got 40 last night! Then looked at the previous night's questions. I would've gotten about 30 then. So I guess I'll commence to studying on the off chance that I'm in the audition pool.

If Fred were playing defensively against 3rd place doubling up (up to $3599), that would've been OK. But no, he's in some weird no man's land with a random bet that only makes sense if he's got some internal compulsion to answer to.

I glommed onto some kind of mechanical disaster right off, but my first thought was 3 Mile Island before I twigged to Apollo 13.