Watchmen (the comic) took stock comic characters and pushed them in a more realistic direction, giving them more depth and more complicated motivations than superheroes normally get, especially at the time it was written. It also questioned the morality of vigilante superheroes in a way that most comics don't.

That would be awesome. Let's see, if we could time travel and didn't need to worry about age:

Sean Bean as Vimes was exactly who I thought of, too. He gives off toughness and decentness at the same time.

Yeah. I don't hate DiCaprio, but I think you could swap him with any other leading man and most of his movies would be the same or better.

Jason Mantzoukas would be pretty good right now.

Exactly. My favorite thing about Watchmen (the comic) is how it took these stock superhero characters and gave them a solid shove towards reality, making them three dimensional, flawed, needy, unheroic characters. Snyder took those characters and turned them into beautiful leaden props. The exact opposite of the book.…

So we're all just cool with articles that are just summaries of a video, complete with less funny descriptions of jokes from the original video?

Why get all worked up about an imaginary movie? Why not just enjoy some good nonfiction writing? No need for all that "It's a long article, but…"

Back when Besser was doing that podcast competition show (remember that thing?) I remember hearing PFT on another show making fun of it before changing the topic. Specifically about how Besser didn't seem to really a defined idea of what the show was or how to judge podcasts. He said something along the lines of "he's…

I hear you.

Nope, he preferred Chinese food.

Whenever I went to a Chinese restaurant with my grandfather, he would bring up Pearl Harbor.

Growing up in Los Angeles, I remember talking to a teacher about "books that change your life." And I realized that in a very concrete, real way, Jonathan Gold was the writer who had the biggest effect on my life - he sent me off to odd nooks and crannies in the city that no one else was taking me to, and gave me a…

Yeah. I'm sure he does a little bit of performing his personality, because anyone on stage has to. But I wouldn't call it "artifice" at all, especially in the world of rock and roll.

I think a bunch of his newer songs are like that. He's writing songs for arenas now, not for records.

I mean, I could see that in another circumstance, but it seems pretty clear to me that Ethan Hawke is just talking about the kind of parts those two parts are. He was there to be the pitcher in a home run derby.

I like how, of all of the "roasts" of himself he reads on his show, the only one that seemed to get to him a little was this one: "Jon Gabrus is a fat jock and a dumb nerd, the worst of both worlds."

Watchmen wasn't a faithful adaptation. I mean, it was in some ways, but not in lots of important ways.

What they don't understand about riverboat gambling is that it's not about the gambling. It's about the river.

I've oaked my homebrew with oak chips before, and it's surprisingly potent. Threw a handful of oak chips into a 5-gallon batch of (young, uncarbonated) beer, and tried a taste every couple of days. After a week, it was very noticeable. After two weeks, it was overpowering, and that's when I took it out and bottled it.…