To quote Cera himself (from one of the ‘Arrested Development’ audio commentaries), “You have to have a soul to break.”

Man, I loved AK’s episode. “Drink the beer, Kevin!”

You never know who’s going to crush the wings and who’s going to struggle. As I recall, Daniel Radcliffe, with his meek English palate, managed pretty well.

Under the right circumstances, a producer could make more money with a flop than he could with a hit.

I have an enduring fondness for ‘Hot Shots’ and ‘Part Deux’. So stupid, but made with such affection.

Well, your teacher and I are very different people, because I find that hilarious.

This happens all the time. The famous car-racing action franchise was originally going to be called ‘The Proust and the Furious’ before negative test audience reactions scuttled it.

There’s a reasonably popular annual trend of people reading ‘Dracula’ together on the dates of the various letters, diary entries etc of the book and sharing their reactions online. Social media has its flaws, but it does have a remarkable ability to connect people across all sorts of niche shared interests.

It can be two things.

Simpsons fans are familiar with the works of Pablo Neruda.

There’s an ‘Archer’ episode with a ‘Bartleby, the Scrivener’ joke that I just adore:

Girls, Yellowfoot! Boys kiss girls!

I remember reading a book by Michael Moore that, amongst its many other targets, devoted a whole chapter to how OJ was clearly innocent and being railroaded by the justice system. I never really followed the trial, so I couldn’t speak to whether or not it was fair (and I’m not saying the idea of the US justice system…

Trump is shockingly bad at being rich. I feel you could pluck a random person out of the populace, give them Trump’s resources, and regardless of their level of business acumen they’d handle the money better than Trump does.

Look, ever since that Jewish carpenter came back, it’s standard practice to give it at least three days before you make any definitive statements.

I kept hoping ‘Heroes’ would move past the point where people with powers had to be a secret and would instead look at how the world changes with superhumans as a part of it. That seemed like an interesting direction for a TV show, especially in the context of a realistic world without all the bizarreness of comic…

“You get two, there can be only one.”

That passage quoted at the end is so torturous it’s headache-inducing. The review by Manov has a lot more quotes from Oyler, and they’re all like that: a long walk for very little payoff.

I’m trying not to get unreasonably optimistic here, but since the sale to Paste I’ve seen a couple of articles here and there that have made me think, “Hmm, that seems more like the old AVC”. Maybe - just maybe - there might be a rejuvenation happening?

Can’t wait to hear Ryan Gosling belting out “I’m Just Thimble”.