BruceH

Happy Birthday!!! :tup

Very sad to hear of his passing. To my generation he'll always be associated with Mission Impossible. One of the obituaries says he appeared on House, but I must have missed that.

That "Thundering Herds" Columbia really is a great little compilation! Recently received "The Hawk Flies High" and "Zoot Sims Meets Jimmy Rowles" in the mail.

Nude vaginas? And all this time I thought the Grammy's were boring.

There was this movie that I saw at a drive-in when I was a kid, "Beneath the Planet of the Apes"---oh, wait. Already told that one. Twice. (Sorry.)

Never even heard of this show before! Who aired it, initially?

As I recall, back in the 70's, she, Joan D. Vinge, and of course Ursula K. LeGuin were considered the Big Three women SF writers.

"Breaking Bad" starts up again soon. Can't wait.

I do too. Always thought it was an obnoxious and crappy song. Not worth killing someone over though.

Please do. I'm a big fan of his stuff. It's been almost 10 years since he last book, but apparently Katchor's The Dairy Restaurant is about to come out. I have no idea which strip it will collect. I kind of wish he would gather up all of Cardboard Valise and Shoehorn Technique, since there doesn't seem to be any easy way to look through them at once (or some of the uncollected Knipl for that matter). Those two also seem thematically similar, whereas Hotel & Farm is in a different setting. Good news. Any new collection by Katchor is good news.

Congratulations and best wishes!

I actually happened to see Zero Hour! on TV when I was somewhere around 6 or 7. Showing them back-to-back was inspired, and demonstrates how Airplane! lifted numerous chunks of dialog verbatim from the earlier movie.

Recently have been going through a bit of a Spoon binge--- Girls Can Tell Telephono A Series of Sneaks Loveways Gimme Fiction

Certainly a great year for jazz. My favorite Mingus album and favorite Miles Davis album both released that year. But THE greatest?? C'mon... 1939 was also great, and a bunch of others. I'm with Ghost on this; let's agree to call it "vintage."

"The Return of the Film Corner" for me. It's wasted a lot of my time very enjoyably.

So Damages is all about Rose Byrne?

Yeah, that's a very good commentary. He also provided a nice commentary to one of the editions of "Casablanca."

My burger? Thomas Berger, of course.

Toss that thing, chewy, it's probably going to explode.

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Halfway through Season 2 of "Dexter" and the quality is still high.

Nice one! I got this a few years back and never regretted it. BTW, all the talk on a recent thread about Gerry Mulligan made me realize I didn't have Night Lights but I'd been kind of meaning to get it for some time. So I pulled the trigger and it just came in the mail yesterday. Very nice.

It wasn't clear if you'd watched it from episode #1. I don't blame you for not wanting to watch a series about a serial killer. I was pretty much in the exact same boat actually, until, uh...I started watching this series about a serial killer. Not terribly consistent, I know. But hey, at least it isn't about rapacious, politically incorrect advertising men from the early 60's!

Finished season 1 of "Dexter" and really liked it. Nice story arc running through the season, and satisfying finish. And since the penultimate episode was a cliffhanger it really came in handy that I was watching them on DVD. I've got to really hand it to this series, because I'm one of those people who for years has been going around saying that they're sick to death (so to speak) of serial-killer stories in popular culture, but nevertheless it won me over. Well it's one of those series where you really have to start at the beginning.

"Der's gold in dem dar grooves!"