The otter is likely Lylla, Rocket’s friend / love interest in his earliest appearances (Incredible Hulk #271, the Rocket Raccoon limited series).

I haven’t seen Moonrunners, but from the clip in the slideshow, I give it points for using an instrumental of Jennings’s “Rainy Day Woman,” and then take the points right back for cars squealing their tires on a dirt road.

According to Wikipedia and YouTube, Hoyt was duetting with Renee Armand, not Linda Ronstadt. He sang with Ronstadt on “When the Morning Comes,” a single from the same album as “Boney Fingers.”

Ben Riggs’ Slaying the Dragon: A Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons explores the genesis of the tabletop role-playing game, as well as Gary Gygax’s struggles within TSR, the original D&D company.

Whereas in our time, “Tralfaz” is acceptable for OSI agents on the run.

Although the description doesn’t say this, Slaying the Dragon delves into the second half of TSR’s existence, after Lorraine Williams forced Gygax out up until Wizards of the Coast bought TSR — and any book that discusses the business of TSR isn’t going to praise Gygax’s acumen if it wants to retain any credibility.

I appreciate you saving me the trouble of looking the answer to “Wait, he was that train hijacker on Due South, wasn’t he?”

The creator of The Crow is James O’Barr, not James O. Barr — just in case anyone is interested in looking him up.

The latest book in Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London series, Amongst Our Weapons, is scheduled to be released April 12. The series resolved the big conflict with the Faceless Man a couple of books previous, but the series is still worth reading.

THIS IS NOT A DRILL: Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo is available for only one month — just 30 short days. Do not allow this opportunity to pass you by.

Connery’s shooting form in the first three make it difficult to believe he could hit anything, except maybe a duck flying overhead or a bystander in a second-floor balcony. He got better, but man, that’s rough.

Celebrate the “Summer of Drizzt”

This trailer has Razor Fist! One of the most ridiculous Marvel villains, although he’s less ridiculous here. (In the comics, the blades on his hands aren’t retractable; they’re permanently attached prostheses that would make going to the bathroom a challenge.)

Also: did I miss it or did James Ellroy come out with a new novel recently?

I think of it the other way around, with the ‘80s being a long decade rather than a short one. The ‘80s began in 1980, as the Reagan campaign got rolling, and they ended in ‘92, when the bulk of Nirvana’s singles from Nevermind hit the charts and the Bush presidency — the logical extension of the Reagan years — was…

In their memorial tweet, the Jim Henson Company tweeted that she was the voice of Fran Sinclair in Dinosaurs, the early ‘90s sitcom. I had no idea, and frankly, I find it hard to believe she was in such a (relatively) straight sitcom housewife role.

Larry Bird is the Hick from French Lick — French Lick, Indiana. He’s a Hoosier, not a Utahn.  (I assume that’s what someone from Utah is called.)

Karnak, Ill., doesn’t even have that level of claim to fame.

In 2017, the regional newspaper, the Southern Illinoisan, published a story about a federal report that the covered civil rights and housing abuses Cairo had endured from local and federal authorities.

Life (and casual racism) has already stuck it to Cairo, Ill., more times than I can count.