"Miami Blues" Haiku:

That's contingency/secondary power.  Power is needed at full capacity everywhere —including for emergency services, and for the graphics unit of the broadcasting systems (which, you may have noticed, went dark).

REDACTED as wrong. I think nonbeliever93 nailed it.

"…to the forever dismay of Jonathan…"  I'm assuming, because of Pilot Viruet's name, that this is just a bad translation from the original —what? —Belgian?  (Maybe consider "unending" or "never ending" dismay next time.)

Sorry, but Harlan Ellison's ego is 7' 6", my friend.  (Actually, though:  Yeah, I know:  I took a series of writing courses with him at Berkley, and did a couple of interviews with him as well, and he's an ornery, shrike-tongued runt fer sure —an even shorter short-story writer than the mad little pip-squeak that was…

Sorry, but Harlan Ellison's ego is 7' 6", my friend.  (Actually, though:  Yeah, I know:  I took a series of writing courses with him at Berkley, and did a couple of interviews with him as well, and he's an ornery, shrike-tongued runt fer sure —an even shorter short-story writer than the mad little pip-squeak that was…

The actor who played "Rolf"?  At last, I've found the man to star in "The Harlan Ellison Story"!

The actor who played "Rolf"?  At last, I've found the man to star in "The Harlan Ellison Story"!

Q:  Who's buried in Grant's tomb…?

My sorryness for making inelegance of language, but is joke:

If you're gonna swoon over some good Daniel Stern, best never forget "Breaking Away."

"About A Zomboy."  Now THAT, I'd see. This version of "Zombio and Juliate"? Naw.

Just a couple of thoughts:  First, the "tawdry" opening scene:  The TRUE payoff was when the Husband listens to the tape of that affair mid-way through the episode, and it tears him apart to think of his wife sticking her finger up a Reagan wonk's asshole just to do her job.

@inko8:disqus Here's the difference, though, as I see your arguments (which I find very valid, by the way):  First, your initial comparison would only work if Oppenheimer had created a weapon that was NEVER to be used, and was to be kept forever under guard (—which clearly wasn't the case).  Was the banished-student…

Here's how I would have worked the scene to make it stronger:  Raylan, talking to Lindsey, DOES keep glancing back to keep an eye on Randall hugging his belly in the dirt.  On the third or forth glance back, he gets a face-full of hard-thrown dirt and rocks as Randall rolls into his legs, bringing Raylan down.  The…

Hi @inko8:disqus .  Exactly!  That's the problem with "situational ethics" —unless, as a writer, you really keep your evil ducks in a line.

"This Bird Has Flown"

I'd like to hear you break down what happened, then, action-wise; because I'm betting that you can't lay it out sequentially (without the aid of a DVR).  See, I'm all for realism (especially since the lead-in to "Justified" on FX is "The Ultimate Fighter," and I'd just caught a few minutes of a REAL wrestling,…

At LEAST as many people who recognize that it's a "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" reference…

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