I think you're right.

Is the "bitter, deathless rivalry" between Maggie Smith and Judi Dench a real thing?

How about this home movie of an older Keaton goofing around, and tossing off a perfect gag like it's nothing?

That bothered me before but now that he's linking to his sources I'm fine with it. I think of it like a blog that quotes actual reporting done by other people and then comments on it. You know, like the av club.

I love all of these games. Especially the resistance. When I teach new people, I usually sit out the first round and just watch and answer questions. I love watching the light bulb go off the first time someone tells a lie, and someone else knows they're lying, and the first person knows that they know, and there's…

Never played Anomia, but I can vouch for all of the others here. Space Alert is one of my favorites. I imagine that every time we play, our guys are running from one side of the ship to the other screaming the entire time.

Also, as a fellow board game nut, I dug Rich Sommer's podcast. I thought he was likable and interesting, and I didn't agree with the review above at all. Only once or twice did he get a little caught up describing game rules, which is a real challenge in talking about board games - how do you explain what a game's…

All of the games mentioned above are awesome.

I have been very into Chaos in the Old World lately. It's another armies-fighting-on-a-map game, but it really smartly avoids most of the problems Risk and other games like that run into. It actually encourages and rewards fighting in the right circumstances, so you don't have that Risk situation where two players…

I agree. Adams and Vonnegut both enjoyed taking people down a peg. Pratchett wanted to raise them up.

That was also my first. I thought it was great introduction, especially since it introduced a new protagonist, so it was a sort of beginning. I only remember being confused during one scene with Vimes - getting that sense of "I think this must be a character from another book."

Going Postal is a great standalone book from when the Discworld books were really firing on all cylinders. Night Watch is a personal favorite, although that one probably benefits from a little more familiarity with the characters.

Yeah, Space Alert is a great game as long as you have a regular group to play it with. Like you mentioned, you have to play through several tutorial missions just to learn how all of the different parts of the game work. (You can try to skip those and just teach the full game straight away, but I don't think it would…

I think that's because he had so much success with his cheesy stuff. It's overshadowed his earlier good stuff. For a lot of people, the schmaltzy stuff IS Rod Stewart.

He spent six months in the studio on Born to Run. Just that one song.

But John Prine records have always been well-produced. His last one was solid. Sadly, I think his health problems have taken up a lot of his time and energy, and that's why we haven't gotten any new material from him in a while.

That was the first answer that popped into my mind too.

Yeah, Rhett Miller said that he was driving between gigs and decided to write new words to a song he knew well, so he used Desolation Row. And before they put it on a record, they managed to get Dylan to listen to a copy of it, and Dylan liked it well enough that he said they could list him as a cowriter and put it…

I would LOVE a movie with Bob Odenkirk and Charlie Day as father and son.

I don't think the on-air screwups are a sign of Cody's ineptitude. It sounds like the ear wolf hired technicians to work the equipment, and then the hosts asked them to take on the responsibilities of producers and assistants, too, all at the same time.