The Pirates of “Downton Abbey”

Whoever solves the UK/US television time-lag dilemma should win the Nobel Prize, or at least a few cases of Bass Ale.
My only quibble with this awesome infographic: Shouldn’t the winner of each matchup be the school with the lower tuition?
Wins my vote for the second-most-depressing moment in Nirvana history.
Contestants Lindsey Pavao and Lee Koch duetted on Nirvana’s “Heart-Shaped Box” on The Voice last night. Adam Levine’s verdict: ”Delightfully creepy.” Question I already know the answer to but I’ll ask anyway: What did you think?

If Party Down and Cosmos were two people being set up on a blind date? Worst date ever. Nice one, Netflix.

Whoever solves the UK/US television time-lag dilemma should win the Nobel Prize, or at least a few cases of Bass Ale.
I am reveling in the awesomeness of this fan-created book trailer for Arcade Fever, which I am only just now discovering even though it was posted on YouTube nearly four years ago. Intense flashback to 2001!

Fun fact learned while interviewing Weird Al Yankovic: He also owns the domain name WierdAl.com and says that 20-30 percent of the traffic to his official site is forwarded from the domain with the incorrect spelling.

Was assembling this dissection of the new Snarf from Cartoon Network’s reboot of ThunderCats the highlight of my career? No. But it was a riot to put together. Why? Because it’s a dissection of the new Snarf! Will I now stop asking questions and answering them myself? Yes.
The nice people at the design-centric site Coudal.com have made me their guest editor for October. Not surprisingly, my first link is to the hilarious new Julie Klam book trailer, which stars Timothy Hutton and features this killer quote from Klam’s publisher: “Who is he, E.F. Hutton’s kid?”