[Jorge Posada, who in the second hit an 0-2] cookie ... David Wells is a guy who keeps you off-balance. But today, his curve ball was a little off.

Mineral Wells picked it up in the second half and made it a much better game.

The guy lit it up,

Part of the reason I actually preferred Twin Peaks's second season to its first was the fascinating spectacle of watching a narrative structure disintegrate and a narrative artist freeze up and try to shuck and jive when the plot reached a point where his own weaknesses as an artist were going to be exposed (just imagine the fear: this disintegration was happening on national TV).

I felt bad for him, I got the first guy, but I didn't pick him up.

I submit that the real reason we criticized and disliked Lynch's Laura's muddy bothness is that it required of us an empathetic confrontation with the exact same muddy bothness in ourselves and our intimates that makes the real world of moral selves so tense and uncomfortable, a bothness we go to the movies to get a couple hours' fucking relief from.