The tour isn't coming anywhere near my city, but after it started I sprung for the Howl App subscription so that I could delve into them. Well worth it - each of them has been fantastic. Timekeeper's "watchdog" line in the Boston ep may have been the best payoff I've ever heard.

I know it's not you actually professing that sentiment @pantsgoblin:disqus, but nonetheless it irks me that it's as prevalent among Sanders supporters as it seems to be. I love Bernie and was/am a supporter of his, but it genuinely saddens me that if he doesn't get the nom, so many of his voter have decided a Clinton…

I wrote about this on a TI thread, but I'm in a similar same boat: I lost ~130 lbs in college several years ago, but have seen a demoralizing amount of weight climb back on in the last year or so, despite having changed nothing about my eating or exercise habits. At first I chalked it up to simply getting older, but…

You know how sometimes you know a piece is going to be great as soon as you read the headline? And then you start reading and it's even better than you expect? And then you reach the end, but you're incredibly excited because there's still more parts to come?

Agreed. The tone of the article reminds of sports radio or youtube commenter dipshits who insist that Erin Andrews or Jennifer Lawrence or Kim Kardashian or whoever TOTALLY lucked out and must be living the dream since they got paid or got publicity out of their public violations - somehow unable to fathom that in…

Anyone remember Jughead's Diner? Or was that just the weirdest dream that I or anybody else has ever had?

Clickhole has kind of become the anti-Onion for me: The Onion's headlines are still hilarious, but there's not much reason
to read the actual article - the joke is basically in the headline.
Clickhole's headlines only convey a hint of how insane and twistedly
funny they are; each piece dependably gets funnier and…

All this repetition of the same self-referential episode quote must be a terrible strain on the AV Club commentators' wrists.

That's interesting - I feel just the opposite in some ways. Some of the prose of the authors you mention feels off-putting and ostentatious since it's (usually) meant to stand on its own.

Danny Ainge & Bella Abzug.

You missed a chance to ask him: when did you first hear about U2?

So at the risk of being ridiculed for my naivete, is some of the frenzy around Making A Murderer a bit unsettling for anyone else? It's a compelling piece of filmmaking, but at the end of the day we're talking about a case involving sexual assault and murder (in which the family of the victim seem to be deeply…

That would make a fantastic film. Living in Kansas City, it's striking to realize how the divide in how he's regarded is still quite alive: Kansans very much consider him a freedom fighter folk hero, while Missourians tend to see him as a crazed terrorist. Shops, murals and t-shirts across Lawrence feature John…

I pretty much agree about Vaughn. I think he's purposefully ridiculous at the start (for the reasons you mention - he's attempting to play the part of an erudite yet hard-nosed kingpin) but by the end most of those pretenses are stripped away and his performance is unequivocally affecting. He actually feels closest to…

I think Kirsten Dunst (as well as Zahn McClarnon) were a bit better than Bokeem Woodbine, but that's in part because Dunst's performance was especially striking for an actress who few considered capable of that kind of virtuoso performance. In truth, you could pretty much place all the cast of Fargo S2 in a hat and…

Would love to see Mr. Wrench return. His was the only story that felt incomplete in S1.

I think the most fascinating aspect of this season is that ultimately we don't realize which character's story this is until the very end. In retrospect given how he ends this season and combined with where we know he lands by S2, at its core season 1 is showing us the rise of Hanzee/Mr. Tripoli as he becomes the…

That was a devastatingly effective season long misdirect towards Bear becoming Mr. Tripoli. Though despite being a cool twist, even with major facial surgery Hanzee as the pudgy, goateed white Fargo boss in S1 is a biiiit of a stretch.

Nobody puts Mikey in a corner (office).

Dan Castellanetta's Parks & Rec radio host is an almost direct parody of KCRW's Michael Silverblatt (at least in the vocal patterns). If you've spent any time listening to Silverblatt's show Bookworm, Castellanetta's character BARELY feels like an exaggeration: