This is the first time in at least a decade when I've seriously wanted to collect a South Park season on DVD.

I always thought it was interesting how Garfield worked well on the comics pages, but was too thin to really work as a Saturday morning cartoon, so they added in Davis' "US Acres", which worked much better on TV than it ever did in the newspapers.

Oh crap, I just said the same thing, 10 posts up (or down). Wish I'd seen this first.

It's not an ending, per se, but how about the whole third act of Paranorman? I was loathing the Scooby-gang chaos as a big comedown from Coraline, and balking at the obvious shout-outs to classic George Romero zombie movies (playing the WALL-E-referencing-Chaplain canard of playing to movie critics by showing you know…

The only way this could be more guaranteed to suck is if they announced Kim Kardashian as the voice of Lucy.

+1 for the Read Or Die reference. As for ACen, they will mail badges in advance for $2, and when compared to a multi-hour wait in line, it is the best $2 I have ever spent.

You feel old? Hey, anime is how I escape being 47.

I think that captures what I like and dislike about Space Dandy, and why I eventually flaked on watching it week to week: it's a bunch of talented people having fun, but there's no reason you have to watch every episode, in order. I expect it'll be on adult swim indefinitely, and I'll see more of it eventually.…

I went to Detroit's anime convention, Youmacon, for a single day on Saturday. There was little or no news to come out of the convention — Aniplex USA was the only major US company to run an industry panel IIRC, and their presentation was all old news about streaming and physical releases. Seems odd this con gets kind…

I was under the impression that Buckingham Nicks had never been released in a modern format (CD or download). True? False?

Goddammit, it's still doing it. The anime Angel Beats!. Everybody who's seen it will talk about how hard this show will make you cry. For example, there is a blink-and-you-miss-it gag in the Anime Music Video Anime 101 in which a character has answered the quiz question "In your own words, describe the ending of Angel…

Snoopy Come Home still tops my list of movie tear-jerkers. Also frustrating that it has all that great music by the Sherman Bros., yet the soundtrack has never been released in a digital format (CD or download)

It's more that I like its perception of human behavior and its morality, more than its politics, per se. There's actual humor in the book, if it speaks to you, about the ways that people are casually dishonest to themselves and to reality, and how that leads to the problems the book purports to rectify. It's one thing…

It certainly doesn't help that the third movie was the worst of the three. Even for fans of the book, it's obvious on the screen that they have run out of enthusiasm and, more importantly, run out of money. Trying to show the collapse of social order when you can only wrangle a dozen extras for a crowd scene is just…

I'm slightly intrigued by the premise, in that American medical dramas are always about the care-givers and never about the patients. That and the fact that what we think of as "quality" film and TV in the US is deathly afraid of sentimentality and melodrama — better to have something emotionally remote and ultimately…

The late 70s saw a confluence of a renewed interest in sci-fi thanks to Star Wars, and a lingering pop culture meme linking ancient civilizations to outer space, most notably Erich von Däniken's Chariots of the Gods. So when I was 10 and got a perfect score on my report card, my Dad had to take me to The Outer Space…

I didn't realize Fouts was on CBS now. I really liked him as a Pac-12 guy for ABC/ESPN.

Yep, I kicked in for the ALS documentary, largely for the Kathryn Calder / Immaculate Machine rarities offered as a reward.

No mention of Kathryn Calder… does she have any songs on the new album?

Refresh my memory: doesn't Adama receive a fax (or whatever it is on the paper with the corners cut off) saying "THERE ARE 12 MODELS OF CYLONS"? Do we ever find out who sent it, or why? Or did I just dream this?