Didn't he stop making voicing his character on Harvey Birdman around the time The Colbert Report started? Maybe he is just a busy guy or he doesn't want to fly out to LA (assuming that's where they do voice work; I'm not really sure how it works).

I had never heard of Simon & Simon. That didn't stop me from being impressed by the attempt to recreate it.

In The Thick of It, I love any reference to Malcolm's scariness. Like when he is asked how he appears out of nowhere, he says that he is a shapeshifter. Or when DOSAC watches him from afar yelling at other people. Or when he peers from around the door pretending he is the big bad wolf.

Some people are into that:

Anybody here ever read John Schwartzwelder's books and are they any good? I know the other Simpsons writers like them based on the commentaries.  

They won't need to because we could see it. With our eyes.

"My job is to entertain people" is a very David Brent/Michael Scott thing to say.

Yeah Sean Penn has a sense of humor sometimes (like the time he was on The Colbert Report to make fun of something ridiculous he had said). But I think on an episode of Comedy Bang-Bang, Zach and Scott kept dropping hints that he was hard to work with on an episode of Between Two Ferns. It may have been Bruce Willis…

The Butler was on tour with The Doobie Brothers for most of the 70s.

All the guests have always known what's up. Except maybe Sean Penn.

How am I going to know if the next episode reviewed is a good one if Nathan Rabin isn't here to assure me, if memory serves him, that it is.

Other Boston/Massachusetts based artists they could have chosen that I personally would like better but totally understand why they were not chosen: Pixies, Mission of Burma, Jonathan Richman, They Might Be Giants, Galaxie 500, Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh.

Yes and Good Old Games too. I bought it and it is a bit buggy. If there is too much going on on-screen, like rain or waterfalls, my game slows down. Other people are having worse problems like the game crashing (happened to me once) or the game not working at all.

Her voice is amazing and perfectly suited for both a smarmy radio DJ and a real estate agent in the 60s.

Yeah a lot of people had left and maybe James Mielke wasn't the best EIC (though he kept the magazine looking nice Wolverine cover aside).

Sometimes good writers end up in bad places. There have been writers at Kotaku that I like but the Gawker-style keeps me reading that site often. At least Jeremy is still writing. A lot of the other good writers who left Ziff Davis became PR people for game companies.

Yeah I did. I had a subscription and everything. It was a good magazine.

I'm skeptical because he some how made Garden State back when he was not particularly famous and not wealthy. That had fairly popular musicians on the soundtrack and pretty well-known actors like Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard and Ian Holm. Also he has a larger following now and has experience directing. What is…

This reminds me how for the months before EGM and CGW closed and 1up.com laid off a bunch of people, most of the good writers started leaving to join game publishers and developers. Nothing good can come of this. 

I like this band well enough but there is something really off-putting about their sound. Like there are some really good songs there hidden under layers and layers of production.