"This is by far the sexiest thing we've seen all day."

The biggest problem with Alcatraz — one of the reasons I wasn't interested in watching it, relenting only at the behest of my lovely wife — is that it is an inherently limited premise. Pretty much the only way the show can expand beyond its initial premise is to completely abandon it, which is pretty difficult…

Yes. I remember reading somewhere that the reason the premise of the show kept changing every season was an attempt to keep from being cancelled.

People still read Dickens for pleasure. People still read Conan Doyle for pleasure. People still read Chaucer and Mallory. People still perform and read Shakespeare. People still read Dumas and Scott and Burroughs. None of these authors' were aiming at high culture; they were all the popular culture of their day.

Am I the only one who saw the 40-inch breasts scene and thought, "Huh. They don't know how to properly measure bust size."

I'm an old-school gamer, having started playing AD&D back in 1981. First-edition AD&D was an awful, awful game, but in a strangely lovable way. You always remember your first fondly, I imagine.

You can never really predict how a movie is going to do. Who would have thought The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo would be such a box office flop? I certainly didn't see that coming. And the biggest movie at the box office now is The Devil Inside? Who'd have thought that was possible?

It's a surprising accurate description of the show, too.

"The hotter Winchester brother is stuck in 1944 this week — prepare the Untouchables hats and Tommy Guns!"

"The world’s newest primate species has lovely eyes"

Years ago, when I was a kid (we barely had electricity then), I found a 16 oz. bottle of RC Cola with a plastic rose lodged in the neck of the bottle. I kept it, unopened, for years.

According to most studios, no movie ever produced has ever made money. That's what they tell the people they owe residuals to, anyway.

"In essence, Game of Thrones is a poorly produced copy of Mel Gibson's Braveheart with a dash of smut straight out of Hustler Magazine added to spice up the frustratingly complicated drama."

That's just stupid. It's stupid that toys are taxed at different rates depending on what they are. It's stupid that lawyers could make such a stupid argument in order to get around paying higher taxes.

I think American Horror Story discovered that the easiest way to maintain suspense is to just completely abandon traditional notions of narrative. Or, really, any notions of narrative at all. I honestly would have stopped watching after the first episode if the wife hadn't liked the show so much.

I think this version of "Where there's a whip, there's a way" deserves serious consideration.

I don't think there's enough water on the planet for that to happen, actually, so, yeah.

My bad. I thought Blake's was out earlier than it was.