she must really hate Neil DeGrasse Tyson

oh I like Rory, but that is mostly because he is in the pointless debate segments with Mike Yard and he and Larry do a good job of always piling on Mike at the end

if someone didn't pass the 50 question test I didn't see it, so i'll say b. but at my audition there was only 19 people anyway

hey guys wish me luck tomorrow. hopefully my audition goes better than the time i tried out for teen jeopardy a looong time ago

oh definitely, but he decided to be polite

i wasn't thinking of lyrics, i was just running thorugh song titles

I know they would never do this, but one of the great successes of Ianucci's prior show The Thick of It was how it could change the person at the top and shift to a new dynamic while still remaining relentlessly cynical and hilarious

my greatest karaoke performance is to Ballroom Blitz

lets take the week off then. probably just easier for both of us.

maybe? So i sent you an email but the gist of it is that I am gone most of Sunday and monday. I probably will be leaving mid-late sunday afternoon so we could definitely start talking on sunday, but it wouldn't finish for a while. we could also just take the week off, considering my lack of availability for most of…

I have been preaching his virtues on this board for years, so no argument from me.

how the hell did everyone miss Ulysses

I swear every book of his I read I decide is his new best. I think I am just so in love with the last thing I read by him

I love him too, I am thinking of stopping what I am currently reading just so I can finally get to it. Glad to hear it is good

yeah i remember thinking the same thing about how the heck will she end it, but i agree with your spoilers, she found a way to do it that i thought worked very well

i just want to discuss the last line. i literally care about nothing else

I have bogged down in my reading recently. I have been reading Dreamsongs volume 1 for most of the past month, a collection of George RR Martin's short story work up to about the 80s. some of it is good, some of it is not, and some is excellent, but i'm ready for something else. still i have trouble just stopping…

ugh finish Tigana so we can talk about it!!

what did you think of how Mercy wrapped up the trilogy? I really liked it, but i was totally in the bag for those books

The boredom of a normal life was so clearly ruled out, leaving us with those limited options. You are right that for Meadow right now it seems that more options are present, but also as you point out they are all constricting. the women in Tony's life are almost all destructive forces be it his manipulative mother,…