The big ?
But does this movie definitively answer the question posed so long ago by "Adventures in Babysitting"? Is Thor a homo?

Yeah, but Frankenstein was an unmitigated disaster.

Critically acclaimed
More or less a useless phrase, especially when it applies to artists with a huge back catalog, like BPB. If you can't come up with an interesting adjective, just let it go. Or use, say, "beardy, folk-lit extravaganza"; either one.

I saw Smith, dressed in a tree costume straight out of a 3rd-grade play, sing to a roomful of elderly at a senior center in Astoria, Queens, on a weekday afternoon. His wife and young daughter were his backup. It was bananas, and I consequently will like anything else the guy does. He is an American original, fer sure.

Every review of a Giant Sand record…
Needs to start off with the sentence "Here's why you should care about Howe Gelb, dammit!"
I really wish the NPR brigade would show some balls and give this guy the love he deserves.

Based on Rod Serling's original pronunciation. He did it in a suit, with a cigarette, which makes it even funnier.

Showing my age here, but did anyone else get a "Parker Lewis Can't Lose" vibe from this ep? The radically exaggerated fantasy elements that are still grounded in some kind of reality rang a bell. Of course, I haven't seen that show since it was on the air, so who knows?

DAS Racist!

RowboatCop could be the next Kick Puncher! Hats off to this show when quick throwaway gags could so easily spin out into new hilarious universes.

I live in Sunset Park, off the D train, so there. I have never seen a squatter in my neighborhood, though I guess there could be some down by the expressway or something. I was actually hoping this would be a novelization of the Rhea Perlman movie of the same name.

Also!
"Cold open" is kind of getting overused now as well. Someone chillwave band should steal it, thereby ruining it for everyone.

At the end of the day
Please excise this phrase from all future writing. That is all.

Pretty sure that janitor was the fake groom from that weird I Married a Fat Obnoxious Jerk show, or whatever it was called. I can't believe I remember this stuff.

I think the films went for a more complex angle: society has a death wish, because it's made up of SUCH LIBERAL PUSSIES!

Then he should describe who/what the Halo Benders were, not just count on readers to know what they sounded like…they had a couple albums 10 years ago on K—hardly touchstones.

Trainspotting!
I like the Halo Benders fine, but I'd wager they're way too obscure to make a credible reference.

I also heard time jumps. Figured it was a "Sliders"/"Quantum Leap" reference.

Absolutely agreed. If you're so fixated on the plot twist, you're missing the point of both the book and the movie.

Someone's been reading my blog devoted to "Bebe's Kids"!

I always assumed
…that this was a show about Jim Belushi's testicles.