The Turkey Day marathon didn't hurt, but it remains a holiday tradition among my in-laws and me. After a couple of tasty, holiday-appropriate beverages, the laughter can become painful.

Oh yeah, pass the pie, gorging days…

"Sat down at the Boss's pound,
The first bite I took my belt it, hit the grah-hound.
End up like a dog that's been fed too much
'Til you spend half your night just a-throwin' it up now…"

I've got a fair number of autographs from when I was a kid - mostly sports figures, and then later on a handful of lesser-known musicians (and a few big ones). Early on I figured it was best to just get a handshake or leave people alone after a show.

He just knows his dad is a big Bud Cort fan.

Completely agree with the MTV Unplugged version - although I love them both, if you are going to go with any electric version, that one is the best. The rest all seem slower and more brooding in their intensity, which is not always bad, but if you are going to electrify the thing then you might as well rock the hell…

This would have been too "on-the-nose" a choice for the theme to Boardwalk Empire, but what a song. Whether it's the haunting acoustic version or the rock-out electric, it's clearly one of Bruce's best. Great tune to play to someone who only knows the Boss by his Born In The USA album.

976 miles each way, a few times. But it didn't work out.

Outside of the incredible singing and songwriting of course…

Better as the caveman in "Eegah!" or the visiting alien professor in "The Human Duplicators?"

Fjordwalk. Genius.

With at least a slight debt of gratitude to the blues standard Dylan almost certainly would have known, "Rock Me Baby," with the line, "Roll me baby, like you roll a wagon wheel."

No fair: Lester Nygaard already knew the answer to the "Fox, Rabbit, and Cabbage" problem from a day-long workshop when he was with the Wernham Hogg paper company five years earlier.

The volume displacement was fantastic. If Louie hadn't been so interested in stealing scales he might have learned about that back in junior high science class.

Shat m'self. Meeting's over.

Cemetery Junction is good. It won't be especially revelatory, but it is a nice example of a good "coming of age" film. Some nice performances and terrific musical choices don't hurt.

Also enjoy the ridiculousness that is Kev. "Shat myself. Meeting over." Other than that, the melodramatic piano and heavy-handed writing doesn't really work for me. The payoff at the end of season one doesn't have nearly the emotional weight to it that the end of The Office did. Where The Office worked with more…

Completely disagree in the claim that it's an act. The early Karl in the XFM shows, the one with the mic set at a much lower level, spouts the same unintentional hilarity (with less confidence) as the Karl of the last few years of XFM. Ricky and Stephen clearly feel early on like they've found comedy gold in him,…

Except for this commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watc…

A big pair, as David recalls.