Dammit, replied to the wrong comment.

...timeshare in Pompeii?

Orson Scott Card: Buying Colons: In Bulk

No Alex Karras?

It is impressive that they're in that good shape, though. The rolls of bluelines under my desk are in the process of returning to the sawdust whence they came.

So...they're diazo (AKA blueline) prints? Until the advent of practial large-format laser plotters, there was a diazo machine in every architect's office of any size. Remembering the ammonia wafting off those prints is making my eyes water.

Yes, you've done a burnout. Now drive straight for the rest of the 3 hours and 59 minutes it takes to get where you're going. Hey, look! Soybeans!

You have to forgive Mark a bit. He spent a lot of time in Central Illinois. The dead-straight, dead-boring, soybean-lined roads there will make even the most ardent gearhead dream of teleportation.

What's Spanish for "Curt Flood"?

That California league looks vaguely penal.

Given the amount of carefully placed Chrysler product on display on that show, I'm sure putting the PT Cruiser on a Man Car list was something phoned in from Detroit.

Vampires made me angry for just that reason.

That was my understanding, too.

I shot diet coke out my nose the first time I heard Bruce Willis say that.

The kit for Crown Hall is just this kit with a can of dark bronze spray paint.

Steve Buscemi or Paul Reubens as Nobby. Or would casting a yank be unthinkable?

That and "Ghost in the Shell" against an underseeded #13 "Planet of the Apes" leads me to believe that some "Akira" fan wandered over to the Deadspin side of the shop to get advice on how to rig a tournament for bias confirmation.

I think you could just re-edit the Derrick Thomas one from Super Bowl Week.

I'm an NPR listener. I'd be all for defunding CPB if the bill that does it also requires cable and sattelite TV providers to offer ala carte channel selection with competitive pricing. I went down a tier recently and it killed me to lose BBC America and National Geographic while knowing that a percentage of my…

Agree on Angry Drew being the best. I'm hoping NFL labor unrest lasts until his daughter is old enough to date a lacrosse player.