As long as he's staying far away from the Halloween franchise.

Hi, recognitions!

Sad news. Maybe they can recruit Laura MacFarlane to come back for the tour. 

This is probably as a good a place as any to share a pretty good profile about what Nick Cave has been up to recently—from CNN of all places:

I swear I actually typed out “Jerry was the straight man that anchored the insanity of the rest of the cast” but deleted it because I was trying for concision. Seeing the character who fulfills that role give in to their own flights of insanity is always fun, whether it’s Jerry, or Anne on Parks and Rec, or Bob on…

(And yes, we know Woolery also hosted The Love Connection, but this is a Scrabble house.)

Jon Gries! He pops up as the same homeless guy who drives the rickshaw for Kramer and Newman.

Does anyone remember if HORMEL® BLACK LABEL® bacon became sentient and started replying to people back in the days before the Kinjapocalypse?

That’s another good one, for sure. It reminds me, too, of the Jerry-Kramer a-plot from “Chicken Roaster,” the one where Jerry and Kramer switch apartments—and adopt each other’s personalities—when a Kenny Roger’s Roasters opens across from Kramer’s apartment and the neon sign disrupts Kramer’s—then Jerry’s— sleep.…

These are all good choices. Two others that spring to mind are “The Beard” and “The Strike.” “The Beard” is the one where George starts wearing a wig, which makes him more confident, only to end up dating a woman who turns out to be bald and he rejects her, at which point Elaine snatches the wig from his head and…

The accompanying photo for the “About the author” blurb:

You’re probably thinking of Jezebel:

...the Hawkins Fourth Of July carnival, which Kline himself is happy to toss his name in front of. If you’re wondering what to expect of the character, consider his ownership of the celebration a hint.

That might be helpful, actually. I’ve heard that Trump has been known to pick up a copy now and then.

Last night Slate published a Dahlia Lithwick piece about this and one of the comments was “The president could forcibly sodomize a small child on national TV and his supporters would simultaneously deny it had happened and explain why the child deserved it.”

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15

Depending on your tastes, it’s gonna get even better.

This alone has got me all giddy.

My pitch for the plot: Pierce faked his death and leaving all of his money to Troy was part of scheme to turn Troy against the rest of the group and ultimately get his revenge.* Pierce would’ve revealed it sooner but he got lost in his own mansion again. Abed, in the meantime, has always had the feeling that something…

If you click the link in the first line you get Hughes’s earlier post about the play, which he calls Bitter Harvest, too.