That New Republic author really has an ax to grind with Girls, and she awkwardly wedges that ax in ever few paragraphs. Aside from how weirdly disconnected it is from the rest of the article, it's also more of this pitting-women-against-each-other bullshit. Why can't Girls and New Girl co-exist? Why does one have to…

…James Bond! http://youtu.be/lcwW1eg8X80

And if I understand correctly, Louis CK does almost all the scripting for Louie before they start shooting. That model isn't feasible with 22 episodes.

When I saw "Swine Not" in a bookstore with the sticker "By best-selling novelist Jimmy Buffet!" my first thought was "There's a best-selling novelist named Jimmy Buffet? Why wouldn't he change his name?"

1) Why the hell not? Wouldn't you?
2) The sidways-characters that weren't in the church (except Ben) weren't really the souls of the people they knew, they were kind of non-playable characters that populated their manifestation of the afterlife. Like Jodie Foster's dad in Contact.
3) Jack needed to become a father into…

I saw an advanced screening of Kings of Summer a few weeks ago and it was really, really good.

You've clearly put a lot of thought into this—one of the hallmark traits of someone who understands that the characters on Lost weren't dead the whole time.

Wow, that just came out. Sorry.

THEY WEREN'T DEAD THE WHOLE TIME WHY DO YOU DECEIVE YOURSELF?

For real about Idol needing Nicki Minaj. She totally turned around the quality of that panel AND my opinion of her persona. (Opinion of her music remains the same)

Well it is an established "fact" that "most people skip right over the first ten minutes of each show." Everyone remembers that study, right?

meta comment is meta

Sean's post about this 3 years ago turned me on to Paulstretch. Any other video editors out there: this program is AMAZING for generating room tone. It can take a section of tone that's less than a second long and stretch it out to five minutes or more without causing that annoying "looping room tone" sound.

I got about halfway through We Are Anonymous before I lost interest (this happens to me a lot with non-fiction). I was good journalism, but terrible writing. Every section would end with "but little did they know…" or "but they would soon find out that…" The story is interesting, you don't need to force false suspense…

Alight.

Ah-iggit?

Nor is it news to anyone who's show up 10 minutes early to a movie in the past couple months.

Frank was VERY explicit last week when he was yelling at Claire in her office. Something about the Watershed bill being really important, that the plan was to maintain Russo's positive momentum until the last possible moment, then— and then Claire interrupts about how she hasn't been privy to the plan.

I saw an advanced screening of this last week and it was genuinely fantastic.

She's absolutely a Democrat. Remember last year when Dan and Amy had to meet with those congressmen from "the other side of the aisle" and one of them was Buddy Garrity as a caricature of a Texas Republican?