Episode description

TOPIC: With great power comes…uh, uh, what-have-you.

This week, Dan and Merlin cover a lot of ground. What makes a great comics movie. What movies to show (and not show) your kids. The majesty of The Big Lebowski. And, what exactly Dan should do about a construction trailer and a crawfish-pinching doctor.

Links for this episode:

• 5by5 | Getting There #33: Merlin Mann Shows Us His Panacea
  In which we talk with the brilliantly undefinable—yet always gracious—special guest: Merlin Mann. Best known as a cornerstone of the classic indie band Bacon Ray, he’s apparently also a prolific podcaster, renowned blogger, sometimes-comedian, and index card enthusiast. However, he’s here today because of his (and all joking aside) amazing insight into, advice about, and dissection of the areas of productivity, motivation, and, well, just trying to get there. As he tackles our listeners' questions (as well as our own), we get a couple hours of some classic Merlin-Mann-ing.
• 5by5 | Getting There #33: Merlin Mann Shows Us His Panacea on Huffduffer
  
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• Kieron Gillen Talks WATCHMEN Could you... | kung fu grippe
  
• Women in Refrigerators
  
• Batman: The Killing Joke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Death of the Family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• 5by5 | Cash's Corner #1: Double Thumbs Up
  
• kung fu grippe - "Phone’s Ringin’, Dude"
  Scratching my own itch, here’s the ringtone from The Dude’s portable phone. As .m4r, .m4a, and .mp3.
• 5by5 Showbot
  
• Honest Trailers - Interstellar - YouTube
  
• The Making of "The Big Lebowski"
  Part 1.
• PeterExline.com - The Big Lebowski
  So, I'm telling the story about my car getting stolen and finding a kid's homework in the car, then tracking the kid and calling his folks. Lew and I went over there. Lew had a briefcase and inside it were baggies filled with stuff from the car. One baggie had a Whopper wrapper, another the kid's homework. The kid's father lived in the living room in a hospital bed. Older guy. Don't think he and the kid played a lot of baseball in the backyard. Turns out he had a thirty year career in Hollywood.
• Kieron Gillen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Kieron Gillen (born 1975) is a British comic book writer and former computer game and music journalist. He is known for his creator-owned comic Phonogram, created with artist Jamie McKelvie, published by Image Comics, and for numerous projects for Marvel Comics, such as Journey into Mystery and Uncanny X-Men.
• Amazon.com: Watchmen (9781401245252): Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons: Books
  
• 5by5 | After Dark #515: After Back to Work 215
  

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