My number one summer Zeppelin song is When the Levee Breaks. It's my favorite Zep song too, but I just imagine late spring/early summer runoff swollen by a raging June thunderstorm and that levee just cannot keep back all the water. Hot and humid, but pouring rain at the same time. And not enough sandbags to make…

I think November Has Come also goes with fall, Riff.

Is it possible you mean L.A. Guns?

1. Suite/Judy Blue Eyes by CSNY. My cousin and I spent a summer driving our grandparents' old Toyota Camry around, and that was the only tape we had in the car. He was a year older, so he had his license and we often ended up with about 9 people in the car driving them home from a beach kegger with all the windows…

I think Leonard should get an award for the Slayer/Maiden ownage analogy.

Agree, I liked this Gateway. I'm much more familiar with samurai films. My kung fu viewing has been catch-as-catch-can, and while I've seen some great stuff, I've also seen some terrible films. Thanks for the tips.

Toaster oven trumps toaster every time.

I hated The Last Samurai. I don't remember the film very well, just my very strong reaction to it. I think I hated it for, as TomWaits put it, its "crass, facetious co-option of 'the ways of the East'" and its hypocrisy in decrying the same. Also, I remember loathing Tom Cruise throughout. I gave it one star on…

Yeah, Lego = best toy ever. All my old Lego sets are at my parents' house, still in the original boxes (I was sort of OCD/anal as a kid, I guess). Now I'm torn between wanting my neice and nephews to play with them and discover the awesomeness of Lego for themselves and fearing that they will screw them up by losing…

littlealex, FTW. I'm not aware of anywhere in the U.S. that can touch Camden, NJ, for shittyness.

I'm going to hijack, since I can't post new comments at work.

Ah yes, the pre-internet days, when finding a friend's dad's Playboy was a good day. I remember when Vanessa Williams posed for Penthouse and my parents bought the issue "for the historical importance." I probably wasn't supposed to find that, but I did.

I still haven't seen Spencer or Heidi on TV! Hooray for not being able to stream video at work! Doesn't sound like I'm missing much.

Absolutely, BHiG. It would be like that short story I read in English class in 5th grade, The Most Dangerous Game (or something like that) about the guy who fell off the ship and washed up on the island where the other guy lived who liked to hunt shipwrecked people who washed up on his island. I don't remember how…

Not you either.

Tentacles, eh? You watch a lot of hentai, Quirk?

Fighting words
"coconut M&M's taste exactly like Mounds, except without the gross shredded coconut"

@ iwilleatyourorigami: If they really say that, you've got a great built in come back. Just ask them how they know what a midget's dick tastes like. Zing!

And the Annual Award for Good Sport goes to . . . Roneesh Vashisht for his remarkable forbearance in viewing Twilight, not once, but twice at the behest of his girlfriend. Holy shit, man, I hope she was worth it.

@ Porkchop: I think the main thing to Underworld's credit was Kate Beckinsale in that fantastic outfit.