True Detective, Episode 9: http://40.media.tumblr.com/…

I don't think it was religious, in the sense that people interpreted it to mean "We'll be reunited with our loved ones in the afterlife, so it's all good." I thought the opposite: Love is here, in this life, and "The light is winning" only because we continue to try to do good, bit by bit.

Or like it even would have fit him. Vaughn is 6'5" and with a different build than that guy.

I have Windows, and I can't find the "shrug" key…

I think it could be any or all of those things!

Ohhh, I'm glad I'm not the only person who thought Frank had the diamonds in the suit. Didn't even think the Armenians might have given him up, though.

Yeah, this is the year I've finally just stopped listening to TV critics. So many of them seem to be working out their personal issues rather than, you know, writing criticism.

Ooh, the website is melting again…

The answer to all three is Fried Green Tomatoes.

Putting aside what everyone says about heart (even though it's true), I just find it to be the flat-out funniest and most wildly inventive show on television. Rick Sanchez is one of my favorite characters on TV, a misanthrope who's actually earned his disdain of society (after all, he's a literal sci-fi genius, and in…

We actually thought Irving was Spencer Grammer at first. Irving sounds a lot like Summer Smith.

The complete collection is 20 bucks on Amazon. You got 20 bucks? You need 20 bucks? I can make 20 bucks happen.

Find Mr. Show somehow (probably the DVDs; it's curiously lacking for streaming anywhere) and watch it, then.

Christ, can't people talk about the episode in the comments without wrecking future episodes?

Watch Mr. Show.

The next episode underlines it well, with the joke that Horsin' Around will be fine "as long as the viewing numbers don't fall below a pathetic 15 million." A network today would kill for a show that got 15 million viewers weekly.

It never made sense to me that viewers* weren't willing to wait until they'd seen the whole season to pass judgment on it, if they enjoyed season one enough to stick with it at all. I mean, you gotta know it's a self-contained story; it's going to have a beginning, a middle, and an end, and of course the early…

Hmm, it may not have originated with Kissinger, but he did express the sentiment once. Wikipedia calls it Sayre's Law, and has more background:

lol

Well, I think the implication is more of academia as a sort of fiefdom where people jockey and position for power, only it's all irrelevant to the rest of the real world. ("People's careers" being part of that fiefdom, I guess— once you agree to play the game, you play by their rules.) I don't know about all that,…