“Can’t wait to see the cute annoying kid they cast who has to teach the FF a moral lesson and help save the day!”

I am not even a musician and I LOVE Joe Satriani.  I’ve seen him multiple times in concert, he’s IMHO the greatest living guitarist, and I’m seeing him in concert again in May with Steve Vai!  And every concert of his I go to, they’re sold out.  So people are most definitely listening to Joe.

Non-Guitar-Center dorks, like me!

RIP Bucky Barnes in the category of best Marvel hair. You had a good run, bud.

*hurls DVD of “Blue Crush” at you*

I know! Who but Guitar Center tech dorks ever listened to Joe Satriani?

Huff! Huff! Ah laks mah Silver Surfers all shiny an’ sexless like God intended! Huff!

But since no one cares about or reads the comics or listens to Satriani records these days

Barsanti’s right that HBO does get a benefit from being the exclusive place to see HBO content, but seems to miss that that advantage diminishes for older content. There probably aren’t people who really, really want to watch Six Feet Under, and were about to finally give in after 18 years and subscribe to HBO to…

Back in the late ‘90s I was working at a movie theater and Robert Wuhl came up to the window to buy a ticket. I said, “Hey, I love Arliss” and he gave me a look like he couldn’t understand why anyone would say such a thing.

This is a dumb concern. We have always had companies re-airing popular TV shows that first aired somewhere else, and this has been a big part of Netflix’s business model for ages. That has not prevented companies (Netflix included) from making new shows.

“Hey, all you people who thought Kate Middleton was sicker than Buckingham Palace was saying, I bet you feel stupid now that . . . Kate Middleton is sicker than Buckingham Palace was saying.”

The royals are the definition of English pop culture.

Just to piss you off.

Fascinating to see how this has already altered the media narrative in exactly the way the palace will have wanted... now, of course, anyone who ever questioned the official story (and its terribly staged and/or photoshopped images) is clearly a heartless, uncaring individual because this poor woman has cancer, how…

“clamoring for details about a stranger’s private life”

Awesome! Thank you!

Definitely. I think the difference is that the Japanese seem much more aware that he is trying to use them than he is of being used by them. Both of them see the relationship as transactional, but the Japanese seem to have a more realistic view of what is going on. It may just be that they have all the advantages -…

I don’t think that was it either. As I read the scene, he absolutely knew it was Mariko. He was taken aback when she claimed otherwise, but understood that she didn’t want to (or wasn’t in a position to) openly acknowledge what happened.

I pretty much agree except that he isn’t really endearing or lovable. He’s just a bigoted European full of unearned arrogance assuming that these people are savages because they aren’t white, English speaking, protestants. He considers the Portuguese to be only a small step above them.  Yes, he knows a few things they…