I thought this headline was a prank, and I was so upset. If this is true, it really sucks.

he should use the picture at the top of this page.

I actually felt sad for Lucas when I read in the New Yorker that he has oil paintings of Queen Amidala and a dewback hanging up over his fireplace. I wish I was joking.

this is cool, we talk a lot about how Star Wars borrowed from everything ever but not enough about Pixar.

I actually enjoyed the Magicians pilot. it wasn't perfect, but it did a fine job of capturing the wry, bleak and disillusioned tone of the books.

favorite Twilight Zone? mine's probably The Howling Man.

This is one of the five or ten best movies I saw this year.

I will never be able to hear this song without seeing Andy Bernard and Michael Scott.

the combination of melancholy and fear and passion in this song makes it one of my favorites, along with Backstreets, Promised Land, Thunder Road and Atlantic City. mid- to late-seventies Springsteen is just unsurpassable.

(almost) anything by Sufjan, Jars of Clay, Over the Rhine, Gungor, Josh Garrels, or Rich Mullins. elliptically, several of Belle & Sebastian's songs. The folk music scene seems to have a corner on good Jesus-y music.

I remember reading most of these and now I'm… kind of sad??

Personally the holiday specials I'm most looking forward to are the new War and Peace miniseries and a new mystery series, Dickensian, with 20 Dickens characters.

HAYLEY! also, Jon Hamm's appearance on Kimmy Schmidt was the performance of the year.

the writers are just trolling us with that header picture.

I'm almost done with the book, and decided to watch the five-hour movie with Derek Jacobi and Alec Guinness. I'm about halfway through that. The production and script are excellent. It reminds me of Fanny & Alexander. I also enjoyed the miniseries with Claire Foy and apparently everyone else in Britain.

this week it was Little Dorrit, the Battle of Algiers and the new star war, and they were all amaaazing

*li'l Anakin voice* "now THIS is Star Wars!"

I counted only one reference to the prequels, when someone mentioned the Sith. (there may have been others that I missed).

J. K. Rowling slipped that into the script when no one was looking.

Well, that settles it: time to finish MAD MEN and start watching FARGO. also, I'm glad to see Kimmy Schmidt so highly placed.