You can present conservative or libertarian themes in art, and the pro. Where ideologues go wrong is when you try to deliver the message in ham-fisted way. The Incredibles and Thank You for Smoking were good films that have libertarian themes in them. In fact, it's quite common for action films to depict lone…

Lala offered what I was finally looking for, which was an on-demand, streaming music player with a deep catalog. Then the gravy train quickly left.

More of him. His appearance in the video prompts a great WTF?! reaction. His explanation on The View of how he came to be a part of the video was hilarious, as well as how the director had to tell him how to act in it ("Stop smiling, Ron! Stop smiling!").

In that video, I think Fergie says 3008 instead of 2008. I guess they must have edited the song after the lyric shortly became obsolete. They should exploit the opportunity to re-release the song by changing it again to,"I'm so 2011, you so 2007." It's clever because it's timely and it rhymes.

Of course, what really popularized the term was all that youtube footage of ghost riders and ghost-rider fails.

In retrospect, PSX was a golden age for Square - FFVII-IX, Tactics, Chrono Cross, Xenogears, Saga Frontier 1 and 2, Parasite Eve. In terms of gameplay, I pick Tactics hands down, I still sometimes rehook the old PS2 to play it. Chrono Cross had excellent graphics and music, if not a storyline that was a bit too…

It's interesting that Rabin uses this song as an example of BEP being a hacktastic, cyncially-minded ad agency for a pop group. According to the wikipedia article, which quotes will.i.am in Billboard, this was supposed to be their "underground" song:

I don't recognize this song, but I thought "ghostride the whip" came from that E-40 song (or at least it popularized the term).

But James Joyce did it. It has to be clever.

There's just something about, "Do the Helen Keller and talk with your hips," that doesn't leave your mind. I don't like this group, but the line's clever, and politically incorrect on two levels.

I think this applies especially if you tried reading the books before the movies, and at a young age. Being eleven-years old, the Hobbit and the Lord of the Ring were my first encounters with more difficult, dense prose (and, of course, I had no aesthetic appreciation for words at that time). I could get through the…

I wouldn't say her music is terribly bland, but her public persona outmatches it to the point that the music seems underwhelming. The dance pop is catchy. When I first heard Just Dance and Poker Face, they were pretty addictive, but I classified Gaga in that category of anonymous dance pop artists that would be…

Someone else mentioned it before, but Gaga's visual presentation reminds me of Gwen Stefani's style from a few years back.

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1. Yes . My personal feeling is that if you don't like the way a person runs his business, just boycott it. There's a time for civil disobedience, like a black sit-in at a whites-only restaurant, but what Buggin Out was buggin out about was petty, ham-fisted symbolism.

I read through the transcripts of oral argument the Phelps case before the Supreme Court. Part of me wondered (and was hoping) if the level of crazy the Phelps display in public would come alive in the Supreme Court. Margie Phelps argued well with the same professional decorum you'd expect from someone advocating in…

You know, the first few times when Schillinger raped some inmates, it was pretty disturbing. But right before he raped Schibetta, I hate to say that I actually laughed - "I always wondered…was Adebisi bigger than me?"

Being young and naive to certain violent and racist realities of prison when I first saw this show, the first few episodes of Oz were quite a shock. Schillinger was especially menacing in how initially played Beecher as his friend before turning him into his prag.

That's becoming a lost art too because of audiobooks.

True - I do remember the joy of CD browsing in the local library. This was especially a boon during the heyday of CD ripping and burning, but before I went to college and went heavy into downloading.

Don't really miss the experience of record stores
Except for nostalgia purposes. But the ability to browse among disparate forms of music is hampered by simple financial reality - here's all this great music I want to hear, but I only have enough to buy two albums. And both of them might suck.