I see your Big Lebowski comparison, and raise you a Big Fix one.  (That was Roger L. Simon's first book featuring Moses Wine, and.. sorry, still his best.  Some private eye series should be only one book.)

I've never seen one episode of Deep Space Nine and now I want to, and want to have them have ended it with the above.
But I guess they didn't so now I won't watch Deep Space Nine.

I'm cautiously optimistic for the Days of Future Past movie.  Optimistic because as a comic it's quite the cinematic-seeming adventure, so shouldn't be hard to adapt.  Cautious because… I don't know if I'm in the minority or what, but I've seen First Class twice and just wasn't thrilled with it; I didn't like much of…

I'm too lazy to find it, but in one of her novels (Bellwether? Remake?  not sure…) Connie Willis does a wonderful comparison of Astaire vs. Gene Kelly.  Basically,  Astaire wins — Gene Kelly is a little too busy, huffing and puffing to make his moves seem harder and more athletic (which maybe they were).  Astaire, by…

As a Californian, I can say that his governorship was a complete embarrassment, (should have been embarrassing to him as well but I don't think narcissists generally have that going on).  He managed to get in on, among other things, the promise of rolling back DMV fees, which had the result of putting us a few billion…

I think you can just leave it off after "cliche" up there.

He'll be hired because he can pronounce "unobtainium" — not only pronounce it, but believe it to be a word people would say without giggling.

Oh, well.

It's not a bad book, I can say that much.  Liked it especially the people left behind who don't believe in the Rapture at all.  Awkward, made more so by the fundamentalist fuckheads who DO believe.

Not only am I not able to see this not-aired-on-TV awards show, I'm also not able to see Newhart's performance that won, since it's on the fucking Big Bang Theory and if I watch another episode of that show* I will throw a child through the tv.

The Swanson one was, predictably, the funniest of these.

I'm not even close to clear on any specifics here, but Sean?  My "like" up there counts for a thousand.

Oh, nosirree, this ship only has had one owner!  She was a little old lady who only drove it down to Degobah once a year.

I haven't checked out Pollak's show for awhile, but it's often worthwhile.  The format is nice (long damn interviews) and, while Pollak is a bit show-offy (hell, he's a comic, and a good one, I guess it's understandable) some of the episodes are great.  The Stephen Toblowsky one for instance - but you can't really…

William Goldman said (probably in Adventures in the Screen Trade) that most actors/movie stars are not dumb at all, but often are uneducated, in the formal sense.  Basically, it's that, while the rest of us are studying in high school or college, the actor is out trying to get roles, often forgoing college at all.
Goldm…

I saw the trailer for the new one, and the first thing I noticed is that this new Robocop has more of his actual face visible for much of the time (i'm talking post-transformation).  That's what I got from the trailer, it might not be true.  But Weller has remarked, here and ever since the movie came out, that it was…

One of the things about Weller is… 'member in Buckaroo, when the band is onstage, and he's wailing away on guitar, then turns around and is then also playing (I think) a French horn…?

Yeah, I just rewatched The Commitments the other day and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that movie.
And someday I'm going to do a marathon:  The Commitments, Snapper and The Van.  A  Colm Meaney marathon.

I like the idea of a Buckaroo tv show.  As pointed out elsewhere here, there WAS a comic book, which is also a nice way to go (and, as the movie/Buckaroo's life features comic books based on the team's adventures, it's nicely meta).

Then your son is lucky, if that's the word.   In many cases Weller is right; I've dealt with otherwise intelligent kids (high school and middle school) who weren't taught about civil rights in school. 
it's not, usually, the kids' fault or even the schools' — there's just so much to cover, and state standards dictate…