Norm Macdonald Has a Show, and I couldn’t be happier about it. I really hope Netflix picks it back up--as long as they keep Dave Letterman and Norm Macdonald on the air, I’ll keep subscribing. Even if they lose all their other content.

I watched Smokey and The Bandit this week as well, and it’s just a treat. It had been so long since I’d seen it, I was surprised at how much the movie is just an excuse for Burt Reynolds to be charismatic, and even the chase scenes take a back seat to the chemistry between him and Sally Field. 

I’ve always hated autumn and winter. Where I live now, it’s fairly mild and i guess I shouldn’t complain. But when I was little, we lived so far north that the first little chill in the air meant that within two weeks it would snow and then it would be ball-breakingly cold until about April. Of course now, thanks to…

Home Movies—“I’ll Race” and “If You Were a Car Instead of a Boy” crack me up every time, but “The Compliment Song” is the best.

You can do it! 

Case in point: the only show I have watched more-or-less straight through as soon as it dropped was Disenchantment. I really wanted to talk about that show with the fine folks that remain around here, but I couldn’t keep track of the reviews, and apparently no one else could either.

You can’t just tack “-pocalypse” onto any old word, like it’s Kinja or something. 

So probably do a practice fall from 6,000 feet, until you get the hang of it?

That’s quite a fall.

Oh, definitely. The show’s “point,” wasn’t to glorify the past OR skewer the people who lived in it. It dealt in complex characters who were all so very HUMAN—a mix of good and bad. It let you see the interior life of each character. They were all hiding things (and for good reason!).

The show was interested in rubbing away the romanticized sheen that builds up on the past, but to say that you’re supposed to come away from the show disliking everybody I think misses the point as badly as the MAGA/nostalgia crowd.

I’m trying to watch Treme right now, but tell me something: does Steve Zahn ever get less insufferable? I adore just about everyone in it, but I can’t stand his character—he’s hyper and annoying and every time he’s on screen, which feels like half of every episode. It’s like they took Ziggy Sobotka and gave him as…

“Aunt Polly, the Wrath of God”

I’m down, but I’m an obsessive Mark Twain fan to begin with.

It is nice. It’ll be a sad day when there’s no world left for Ringo and Paul to tell Beatles stories to, as at this point, I assume they’ll outlast us all.

The implication that the Beatles succeeded in spite of Ringo, or that he was just the guy behind the drums and anybody could have been sat back there, is one of those stupid, tired memes that I can’t believe people keep holding on to.

No. I’m more of a “Jack Sparrow” guy.

There’s not a single song done entirely or predominantly in auto-tune (at least as an effect, rather than simple pitch-correction) that I’ve liked. There are a couple of songs where it’s used briefly, like on a bridge (specifically thinking here of La Roux’s “Bulletproof”) where I think it works really well as an…

In that book, George Martin talks in a few places about how John Lennon never quite liked the sound of his own voice, and was always fiddling with recording techniques and echo to give it a sound he was happy with. He was also used to hearing his voice with natural echo from his youth.

I’ll watch just about anything about space travel or exploration, and Ryan Gosling won me over some time ago, so I was always going to be seeing this. Now, though, I’m genuinely EXCITED.