Agreed.  Sometimes I make it to the Psychedelic Furs' take on "How Soon Is Now?", but then the TV has to go off at the commercial.

TNT's non-basketball-related reason for watching TNT is the early morning, dual episodes of Angel.
Fuck yeah.

All these movies must converge into a monster mega ten-hour Secret Wars movie.  Just to watch Spider-Man kick all the X-Men's asses.

Man, that's why I loved the old Handbook of the Marvel Universe comics back in the day.  Non-stop background stories.  And for $1.50, I could read for much, much longer than than the 10 minutes it took me to get through a regular comic book.

Whew!  It's Andrew Garfield.  For a second there, I thought Spider-Man was being played by Hayden Christensen.

The thing about the quipping is that Andrew Garfield has such a distinctive way of speaking, there's no way he could keep a secret identity.  J. Jonah Jameson would suss him out right quick.

Hey, she was Forrest Gump's Ma.

Fuck you AMC, don't you be taking any money away from Matthew Weiner and Mad Men.  I want full, period-accurate Howard Johnson's to be built on demand.  Next season may have Don staying at the Ambassador Hotel just before RFK gets shot, and you better pony up to rebuild the Ambassador brick-for-brick.

Ace is great.

Damn, had high hopes when I saw the preview for this one, just a huge cast of ringers.  Tom Wilkinson and Maggie Smith especially tend to do great work.  I might still see it, but I was hoping for it to be more in the A / A- range.

Seconded.  Those Wexler stories were unbelievable.  Much of the time I had the same reaction as Maron: "Are you fucking with me?  Are you pulling my leg?"

D- means you've tried and your effort was terrible, a slog, groan-inducing.

It's hard to pick up anything after George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice & Fire.  I can't get back into Raymond Feist's Midkemia novels now.  It's like ASOIAF is Nirvana and Midkemia is a hair-metal band.

Well, I'd be totally cool with Greg banging Marsha.  I'm sure Bobby and Cindy played doctor.

Swingers is still great, but the cringeworthy scene with the answering machine is increasingly more difficult to watch.  It was excruciating to watch it the first time, but it's somehow infinitely worse when you know it's coming.

Emma is one of my favorite novels of all time.  I thoroughly enjoyed the movie when I saw it, but I was completely floored when I read a few weeks later that it was based on Emma.  I totally missed that connection.

Your 2nd paragraph is exactly how I feel about W&G.  Unfortunately, unlike you, I haven't bothered to revisit it and my opinion of it remains the same.  After the six year wait for W&G, I wanted to be immersed into another propulsive adventure but all I got was stall, stall, stall.

AMC was re-running the prior episodes of the season earlier in the day, so I watched the premiere again where Sally walks into Don and Megan's room looking for the bathroom.  That scene was echoed again tonight with Sally looking for the restroom at the ball, and glimpsing Roger lounging with Mama Megan.

A "400-plus-page cul-de-sac" is the most accurate description I've ever read of Wizard and Glass.  I've never read a novel where the characters literally stalled, so they could smoke out and hallucinate the same non-interesting story.  And this was after waiting years to resolve the incredible Blaine The Train…

Good god, please not A Way With Words.  That program has been infecting the weekend airings of NPR in San Diego for more than a decade now (I believe they are based out of San Diego).  It's tough to go from the greatness of Car Talk and Wait Wait Don't Tell Me and then run into the train wreck that is AWWW.