When the Blues Brothers hijack a band’s gig at a bar, they ask what kind of music the bar usually features. The bartender answers, “Oh, we got both kinds — we got country and western.”

When will Donald Trump use the PotUS Twitter account to dredge up the video of him sexually harassing Rudy Giuliani in drag?

Probably my fondest food memory of childhood — certainly the fondest that I haven’t tried to recreate — was my mother mixing chocolate almond bark, mini-marshmallows, and peanuts, and then dropping blobs of the concoction onto wax paper to cool. The results were not elegant or attractive, but I loved those things,…

After busting through the Dragonlance Chronicles trilogy last month (as bad as I expected, although it still had its moments, and not as bad as I feared), I’m reading two books now:

No, no, let me explain the concept: That’s Nick Nolte, cosplaying George R.R. Martin ... as The Prisoner.

I’ve stuck with Allison’s work, and although I don’t think Bad Machinery is is best, I’m still enjoying it. I’m also looking forward to the first collection of his new Boom! series, By Night.

There are a couple of Hallmark Christmas movies that star Katrina Law, better known as Nyssa al Ghul, a member of the League of Assassins, on Arrow.

When Darcy goes home for the holidays

[*Editing - because I can for a change - to say that nearly every Spidey villain created by Stan goes on a favorites list too: Vulture, Doc Ock, Rhino, Kangaroo, Gibbon, Kingpin... Man Mountain Marko.... I mean. Dozens just from Amazing Spider-man’s first couple years.*]

Given the spread of the fingers, I’m guessing it’s in imitation of a trident, which is usually held by Arizona State’s Sun Devil mascot.

I just finished The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson, and next I’m going to re-read the Dragonlance Chronicles.

Why is there only one polling place in a city of 27,000 people? I grew up in a township of less than 600 people, with a population density of less than 16 people per square mile. Because the township had half of a town (split down the middle with the neighboring county) with a total population of 63, we had two…

Shirley Jackson - The Haunting of Hill House. I had no idea this was being made into a series. I haven’t watched it, but I can’t imagine how they can stretch the material so much.

The “deadline” is in April — see Kris Bryant, when he got called up after the first week or so in his rookie year. The May deadline you’re thinking of is the Super 2 deadline, which gets a player more years of arbitration (four instead of three), making them more expensive, but not getting them any closer to free…

Many of these events are bad — some abysmally so. For my money, though, you can’t get worse than The Crossing, in which it is revealed that Iron Man has been a sleeper agent for Kang since the beginning of the Silver Age. And not only is Iron Man a (brainwashed) traitor: about a decade before he became the rock the…

I feel for Hank, I really do, although I’m more worried the show will make Sirena out to be a real villain — not just a girlfriend who made a bad choice but a temptress trying to turn the brothers against each other. I like Sirena as the kind of girl who would have a relationship with either of the brothers; if she’s…

E.T. gave me nightmares, I can tell you that. A kid finding a penis-shaped alien in a shed, then having that extraphallus terrestrial steal the kid’s candy and get him drunk seemed all too plausible to 8-year-old me.

I enjoyed Doc’s success and his laissez faire attitude toward human testing. Part of what has limited him is his lack of patience, his inability to put in the time-consuming, frustrating hours needed to succeed, and cutting right to human testing (a la the Joy Can in Season 1) is a Grade-A Dr. Venture move.…

Herbie Popnecker is an excellent comp for St. Cloud, but I disagree that he has no powers — seemingly inexhaustible wealth is a hell of a superpower.

I saw the TV Reboot Machine once.