Season 1 Marathon: 13 Episodes, 13 Beers, 4h:59m:07s

“Beer.  Now there’s a temporary solution.” – Homer Simpson Good morning and welcome to a special, unannounced, Simpsons Day Beer-Simpsons marathon!  For the last two years I’ve been stuck at work on Simpsons Day.  That resulted in a lot of YouTube and regular posts.  Of those, the 1989 Groening interview on Letterman is probably my favorite.  He’s wretchedly adorable in his nervous, pre-fame earnestness.  (The embedding’s been disabled in the two years since I posted it, but you can click through to YouTube to see it.)  For Simpsons Day this year my butt is planted right where it belongs: squarely…

Quote of the Day

Image shamelessly yoinked from here. “I think what we have on our hands here is a classic case of what laymen refer to as ‘fear of failure’.  As a result, Bart is an underachiever, and yet he seems to be, how should I put this?  Proud of it?” – Dr. J. Loren Pryor Happy Simpsons Day, everybody!