World, world, you fool!

There's a sort of demi-rickroll in Nick Lowe's "All Men Are Liars". Just thought I'd mention a good musician here.

They are. They literally feel like part of the landscape.

Depending on the day and my mood, either Blue Planet by Helen Lundeberg or Los Angeles County Museum on Fire, by Ed Ruscha.

Damn right on the Rothko room at the Tate!

The one thing I could expound upon for hours, and I'm stuck at work. Damn you, employability!

I will take some cold comfort in knowing that he will die in whatever apocalypse the current administration will unleash/bumble in to.

And stand to lose a lot under any GOP "health care" initiative.

The soundtrack is so good!

Golly is what put it over the top for me. That ridiculous puppet voice delivering such depraved lines.

The Dig, the podcast from Jacobin magazine. Smart leftists talking about important stuff.

I fell back on a couple of old favorites this week, Laurie Anderson's Big Science and Philip Glass's Koyaanisqatsi. Both "O Superman" and "Pruit Igoe" can still move me to tears.

Since when has anyone let facts get in the way of bigotry and fear mongering?

I heard they're bringing him in on that third season of True Detective.

I'm glad you're workshopping this here before taking it on the road.

I guess that's why I'm a showrunner for Crackle instead of HBO.

Quick, someone grab his wallet.

Isn't it pretty much stated that the Nazis brought the Final Solution to the US, too?

If you want to advance the racial discussion in America, how about a series in which Lincoln wasn't killed and the post-war period went very differently. What would the US look like if the Lost Cause had never been allowed to take root in the minds of the vanquished slave owners, and instead we had worked toward a…

Ali will actually be playing Thomas Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder.