I had never listened to The Beach Boy's Here Comes the Night until now, but there seems to be some connection to Arcade Fire's Here Comes the Night Time beyond just the name.

I knew a French Canadian guy from Quebec who moved to California. He applied to get a personalized licence plate there with "TABRNAK" on it. Like everywhere, California has rules against including profanities and offensive terms on licence plates. The order form for the plate required him to explain what the term…

That's why black people love you.

Jump, jump!

Leander Whitlock's entrapment of Gillian

Speaking of the ladies, I loved Margaret's "Fuck you, that's the deal" to Mrs Rothstein. Knowing Nucky had another idea on how to deal with the problem.

I wondered if Nelson told his daughter that her mother had been a ballerina or if he had simply told her that she had been a "dancer", which is true, and the little girl innocently extrapolated that to "ballerina" rather than, you know, "stripper and floozy".

Your question presupposes that a God who allegedly thinks that unending eternal torture is the appropriate punishment for people who have too high of a standard of evidence is interested in things like justice, fairness, or proportion.

Well, I shall finish the game.

It certainly does … suck!

That's the point where Nucky realizes he can have whatever he wants, but has to have rules to do it,

Although it's common real-life bullying behaviour. Insulting, scaring, threatening, humiliating someone to establish dominance or just for sadism, but "I was just joking".

I managed to get through 5 years at a Canadian high school in the public (i.e. non-Catholic) system without reading any Atwood. I did read some of Alias Grace in my 20s and liked it but, apparently, not enough to read the whole thing. I have nothing against Atwood's work, so far as I know; my wife is a fan. I just…

Messrs. Mooney, Bennett, Padfoot, and Prongs solemnly swear that they are up to no good.

I think I got high just reading that….

I think my two favourite SCTV movie parodies are that one and Teacher's Pet (parody of To Sir With Love). And I've never seen either of Norma Rae or To Sir….

It sounds like he just really likes Canadians.

you can't just openly declare "I'm breaking the law!" in order to get away with it.

I had to reread your comment three times before I realized you said "Jules" and not "Tarantino's first choice for Jesus".

Now who's being naive, Kay?