"Sopranos! In the OED!"

Researching "midget," in the comments to this post , I find one of the illustrative quotes is from a 1998 "Sopranos" scr...

"'I’m still in love with Edie,' says James Gandolfini of Edie Falco, the woman who played his television wife, Carmela..."

Remembering "The Sopranos": “Of course, I love my wife, but I’m in love with Edie. I don’t know if I’m in love with Carmela or Edi...

"The late Gambino crime boss John Gotti was for ordering the hit [on Rudy Giuliani], and had the support of the leader of the Colombo crime family."

This was back in 1986 , back when Giuliani was U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and had indicted the heads of the five fa...

Notes in preparation for a second viewing of last night's "Sopranos." [With second-viewing additions scattered throughout.]

Speaking of Amba, she already has a lot to say about last night's "Sopranos." Lots of spoilers over there. Me, I can't wr...

Last Sunday's "Sopranos" episode: "Kennedy and Heidi."

I'm a little late to this, but I want to talk about the most recent episode of "The Sopranos." Of course, there are major spoi...

A nicely written episode of "The Sopranos."

There was a fine new episode of "The Sopranos" last night, with two neatly paired stories. Tony and Paulie go on a road trip. Yes...

"Can you explain to me who that guy was in Sunday night's episode who was dining with Silvio when he got iced? What was that all about?"

LOL. "The Sopranos" does not insult your intelligence. The truth is, you have to watch the episode twice to understand it. More t...

Death and "The Sopranos."

Fabulous promo (via Throwing Things ) -- but it's full of spoilers if you're not caught up on the old seasons:

Simulblogging the Oscars!

I've got to get home first. The flight to Madison is boarding, so let me get going. Start without me! ADDED #1: Hey, I made it home. No ...

About that silhouette.

Are you feeling outrage or amusement or not really seeing what the big deal is? Reminds me of the hospital sponge bath scene in the famous ...

When one word is funnier than another.

So, we've established that "naked" is funnier than "nude," and now I feel like this is a subject comics have riffed...

"I heard that some other gyms are offering courses on 'pole-dancing' as a sport, so I thought: Why not bring something new to the market?"

The new idea for the gym: naked Sunday . Sounds dangerous. All those machines. And not too clean. Even if you avoided the place on Sunday, w...

People seem to be enjoying the new complexity to this Kramer character.

Sales soar on the new "Seinfeld" DVD. Still, no one could think it was a deliberate publicity stunt. No. No. Life's not that...

Audible Althouse #72.

It's a new podcast! It's about: how I don't want to be called "Ann," what it means to be "Conservative Blogress ...

Is "Seinfeld" ruined? (My advice to Jerry.)

David Bernstein has started a conversation over at Volokh Conspiracy about whether Michael Richards' racist rant makes his Kramer chara...

"A minor show-business miracle took place."

Virginia Heffernan admires the genuine spontaneity of Michael Richards' apology for his (also spontaneous) comedy club rant. [T]he acto...

"That's what happens when you interrupt the white man!"

Kramer -- Michael Richards -- freaks out in the least funny comedian melt-down I've ever seen. Coincidentally, just last night I happen...

Still wallowing in the 60s.

I've been listening to the audiobook of Roger Kimball's "The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed Ameri...

"It was necessary, he suppos'd, to drink strong beer, that he might be strong to labor."

I've been listening to an audiobook of Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography . The narrator has a terribly unnatural way of speaking, bu...

Beloved idiots.

I'm pulling a topic out of a comment thread . What do you think of the sort of TV comic character that's based nearly entirely on p...