Category Archives: TV Clips

Deadwood kidney stone scene

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Back in 2005 I posted a link to a clip from the HBO series, Deadwood. In this episode Al Swearengen (Ian McShane) is sick as a dog from a kidney stone. So sick he cannot speak. Doc Cochran is about to surgically remove the stone (which could kill Al) but at the last minute, they opt to let Al try to pass the stone, with help from Johnny, Dan and Trixie.

Bonus clip: I’m thinking of putting this on my answering machine (6 seconds)

Excellent interview with David Milch (The New Language of the Old West)

I’ll take geo-political history for 500, Chris

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This segment on last night’s MSNBC Hardball is one of the things I most dislike about cable news (yes, I did watch it).

“Chris Matthews, convinced that LA radio talk show guy Kevin James wasn’t real strong in his knowledge of geo-political history, asking James if he knew what Neville Chamberlain did at Munich in 1938. If you answered, “He signed the Munich Agreement, conceding a portion of Czechoslovakia to the Nazi regime,” you are right. If you answered, “He talked to Hitler, and caused 9/11 to happen, just like Barack Hussein bin Laden wants to!” then you are Kevin James.”

When did it become okay to just shout the other guy down? No wonder the rest of the world thinks were a bunch of assholes.