Nobody ever said they did.

Modern Vampires was such a great album (with such a dumb album title) but shit, man, six years between albums?  What are you, the Beastie Boys?

That really is a heartfelt tribute.

Dear sir, I will have you know that SPORTFLIX is the card of a true gentleman.

I could definitely see someone trying to draw from San Antonio and Austin.  The two cities haven’t quite merged in the middle like Dallas and Fort Worth yet, but it’s getting closer.  The combined metro areas are over 4 million, and it’s football in Texas.

He is a monumental shitbird.

Jill.  JILL.  Let it die.  Just...it’s over.

You seem to need better friends.

I feel like (but can’t prove) that Fishbone’s “Party At Ground Zero” used to be in a lot of kids’ movie trailers.  Which is great, because the song is super fun in a gonzo way, but is clearly about Cold War era fears of nuclear annihilation.

I love this feature. I always learn so much from it.

This is magic.

Me too, that was a great book and I was so excited to hear they were adapting it.

I distinctly asked for NO SALT on my mai thai.

Stating the obvious:  Carrie Coon was good as fuck in The Leftovers.

One comment:  The shot at the end of Camille’s car as it jolts to a stop on the deserted road with a phantom girl in front of it, and the fog unfurls in front of the headlights’ beam?  That was some beautiful shit.

That’s how I found out about Cobain’s death too.  Picked up from school, and mom was like “That Nirvana guy you like killed himself today.”

My seinfeld finale story: I was at a Ben Folds Five concert in Austin that evening. The opening band was Superdrag. The venue put a projector and screen on the stage and aired the finale episode in its entirety. Then Superdrag came out, extremely pissed off that Seinfeld cut into their set time, and grumbled and…

The bootheel of Missouri is definitely the south, not the midwest. It’s the same latitude as Nashville, and not far north of Memphis.  Not many of the characters on this show attempt a southern accent, which in real life they would all have.

It’s a city of 3mil people with one major paper. Yes, the real life analog (the Post Dispatch) would be doing investigative state reporting.

Season 2 of TD seemed to be trying for a serial adaptation of Chinatown.  It was interesting, if not successful.