Headline reads: “The NATO summit comes to Chicago, no one else cares”

It’s hard to get too excited by pilot season, because every year, they cut the one show I am just OBSESSED with (this year: see midseason replacements Bent and BFF). But Nashville is one I forgot about until now and if ABC doesn’t do their usual heavy on the schmaltz, I think it could have a chance. Maybe!

Of course, I cried my way through Country Strong so perhaps I don’t have the best idea of what is good for me or the American public.

Also it’s a good song. Tears in the corners of my eyes, cease.

ONE WAY…(GIRLS 2012)

“Hannah: I don’t even want a boyfriend.

Adam: What do you want?

Hannah: I just want someone who wants to hang out all the time and thinks I’m the best person in the world and wants to have sex with only me.”

…OR THE OTHER (MAD MEN 1966)

“Pete: Why do they give you a glimmer of hope in the midst of rejection? A thread to hang onto? A misplaced word? A suggestion for the future? Under a court of law, it would look like an accident but it’s not.

Harry: So we’re not talking about Megan and we’re not talking about Trudy.

Pete: Why do they get to decide what’s going to happen?

Harry: They just do.”

The way I keep stuff for this semi-not-at-all-regular column is by starring it in my Google Reader. As the weeks/months go on, things tend to pile up. Related things. Here they are, by particularly similar category.

APPLE
T-SHIRTS, then, and now:

Other stuff and your new/old iPhone.

A DAB OF HISTORY
Autograph books! They had them in Little House on the Prairie, except when they were in Town.

TENNIS

COOL POLITICIANS
Dean forever, obviously.

OLD MUSICIANS
Like Woody Guthrie, or Patti Smith and jam sessions.

OTHER COOLISH, MOSTLY CRANKY OLD MEN
Like Anthony Bourdain, or David Letterman

FAMOUS, LEGIT ACTORS
The truth behind Natalie Wood, Denzel Washington might play Thelonious Monk, Ben Affleck’s kids wear his face on their shirts and a GIF wall of many many Oscar winners and losers.

WATER
In art, and in life/art.

ADVERTISING (ESPECIALLY ’50s THROWBACK ADVERTISING)
Whether it’s Playboy, a Mad Men-themed Newsweek, more Helvetica (plus sandwiches) or remembering George Lois. Or a particularly personal plea.

The New York Times and Israel/Palestine, naturally.

PIXAR
People look like those fake oh-so-real characters.

PICTURES OF OLD NEW YORK
Skylines, seagulls wildin’ and such:

FINALLY

It really is.

“It may seem hard to believe today, but in ’94 we were playing in core-conceptual territory that hadn’t been explored that much on network TV—young-adult relationships.” – Warren Littlefield

“Then Kauffman and Crane came back with Friends, which we thought was such a snore. Some people thought the show was too Gen X, way too narrow.” – Karey Burke

“Fame doesn’t cure whatever is going on inside of you, however you feel about yourself.” – Lisa Kudrow

“We did not want to go out on the bottom. We wanted to feel more like it was time for your child to go to college, not die.” – Marta Kauffman

Who doesn’t love an oral history of the best sitcom of our time?

And not in Men in Black 500. It looks like in this movie, he and Meryl make Steve Carell look young and lovely by comparison.

I’m thoroughly pleased that Meryl seems hellbent on popularizing a new sub-genre of Romantic Comedy called something like “old people rediscovering their sexual selves in well-lit scenes and laughing about it.”

Like bananas. They’re just “enjoying each other“, guys. They’re not, however, enjoying how they have differing opinions about bananas.

Sports Night, 1999.

This is him now:

Scandal, 2012.

Bro has gotten old. I guess that’s what happens.

*In all seriously, Joshua Malina, I love your work. And your face, any way you eye bag it.