…who was English!  (It's a fine poem, but not very Heaney-ish).

El Castillito is the real deal.  I mean, yeah, they don't ship them in from Mexico, but for a US taco (and for a San Francisco taco, which is a whole other scale) it is legit.

Er, maybe the creepy thing is knowing what they all look like and then posting links to photos of them at a site they no longer work for.

Holiday I Celebrate Ironically Which Was Mostly Ignored During Its Heyday in 1987, When I Was 4

I agree about the finale, I was actually sort of hoping at the beginning of it that they would have turned out to have already caught the killer, and the finale would be focused on just seeing how the ramifications of being involved in such a grim case affected the various characters.

I see what you mean, but I felt like the prison guard, Becker, actually had a sort of independent, interesting story of his own (I'm thinking particularly of the whole "beef with Seward - weighs Seward - fixes the gallows so that Seward won't instantly die - unable to put the hood on Seward's face" bit of his story).…

Another thing I really liked about the end of this season, which is maybe one of the few things that viewers who started watching the show from the third season wouldn't pick up on as easily, is how Holder and Linden's characters change over the course of the season. I first noticed it with Holder defying my…

I thought that like a lot of this season, the finale had some questionable writing choices that were redeemed by acting that lifted the material well beyond where it should have been.

On the off chance anyone hasn't seen that, here it is.

Also his audiobook recordings of Raymond Chandler's books are completely outstanding, some of the best narration I've ever heard.  I'm inclined to like him as Philip Marlowe, though, since he's so fantastic in The Long Goodbye.

He doesn't make money off of the adaptations.  As others have said, he refuses credit and all money goes to the artists.

Actually, the WNYC radio spots are also super-high on the smugometer.  Their slogan is "WNYC: Never Turn It Off." It sort of started out as a joke and they would make sarcastic references to making sure your friends knew about organic kale and stuff, but these days they seem to have forgotten that it's a ridiculously…

Next time try writing a prequel series!

Ok, so with the bald prison guard's unexplained absences he seems like a shoo-in for the killer, right?  I was actually sort of hoping that at the end of that scene where Bullet is in peril at the diner, the camera would actually reveal who the killer was (assuming the killer is watching Bullet, which seems heavily…

I liked this bit: Some films have to seek their own audience like oil seeks its own level in water. Others arrive with a preordained sort of word-of-mouth anticipation that cannot be explained. This is one of them.

Hey, 2003 called and it wants its cultural discourse back.

Sounds like Warner raised a real Butlerian Jihad over this.

No offense, but if you think this is what hardcore sounds like, you might have a little more research to do.  For starters, it's 4 minutes long!

I am the one who knows the difference between SLASH and BACKSLASH

Guys, this quote is obviously made-up.  It just takes you until the second sentence to realize it. Innovation!