Raou'ls Green Shirt Emporium.  Also, Target. 

I hope the next day a Ratner story is on Newswire, the Ratner item is the only one not accompanied by the Big Butt Book picture. 

Oh my God, the Grammy's are no longer the test of personal character and virtue that I always thought they were! 

And when a show decides that it needs endless stories based around romantic pairings we can call it 'Running for City Council." 

You could say that about 99% of post-colonial literature of any kind.  After a certain point, reliance on descriptions of customs and cultural norms just breeds incredibly lazy writing. 

That is clearly related to something mentioned on the list, but I can't figure out which one.  Does that regularly happen on 'the Voice?'  Or is that why people think Downton Abbey is such a smart show? 

Come on, at least make the kids read "All Quiet on the Western Front" first.  I remember it fondly among reading assignments that were generally boring. 

When Stella was touring, those shows were also filled with the filthiest jokes in the world.  The disconnect between that and the show on Comedy Central was jaring. 

Imagining that with the help of a few sociologists and anthropologists you can take over/control any area isn't really a feature unique to Afghanistan.  It was the basis of running empires and, to some degree, some of the more disastrous, benign foreign interventions of the last century too (see many experiments in…

Although the acting and directing are excellent through out, it suffers a bit for having a sprawling story.  It covers very different stratum of Brazillian society, not always with the same degree of success.  You wouldn't watch it for the melodrama, but it is there and distracts from an otherwise excellent film. 

I couldn't really separate it from his usual I-just-watched-a-Tony-Robbins-seminar look, but that makes sense too.  What a creep. 

For now, I am a little disappointed/surprised that Quarles thinks it will be so easy to buy his way into business.  Thinking he could recruit a low-level muscle like Devil is one thing, but to expect he could win over Boyd after trying to disrupt his organization?  It makes sense according to his 'it's just business'…

Arlo robbing Devil's dead body is as sure a sign as any that he would take Quarles's offer for a better paying gig.  Not that Arlo wouldn't have something similar to the 'carpet bagger' speech, but he seems far more amenable to following the money than Boyd. 

Having her leave isn't really out of character.  Raylan didn't take the safer, training facility job and it seemed like the pregnancy was the impetus for staying together.  Considering the end of their relationship makes perfect sense, I'm really hoping they don't do something as silly as have a kidnapping less than…

Trainspotting introduced me to more actors who have looked out of place in every subsequent role I have seen them in.  Evan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, and Kelly MacDonald, have all great careers since that film, but they will always be the cast of that film to me. 

"Benedict Cumberbatch who, in addition to being a shy hedgehog who stumbled into a grand adventure outside his garden one day…" Nicely done, O'Neal. 

If I remember Sarah Silverman's account of her show, cancelling the show means pulling it from broadcast rotation too. 

Eh, that would seem like it would be following Grandland's style.  While I like Grantland, the world doesn't need another site trying to cover the same niche (slightly high-brow pop-culture/sports analysis). 

The joke in the show strikes me as being possibly in poor taste but not the worst thing I have even seen on network tv.  Your defense of it is reasonable enough, just probably could have been made without the specific line about being rapey and proud. 

Pay no attention to the pig attached to my feet!