It's just some mountain goat image I snatched off the interwebs.

I got into Enter the 36 Chambers later, in '97.  At that point, what little I knew about hip hop amounted to Puffy and his crew.  I don't know what led me to buying 36 Chambers without having ever listened to it - but I did.  And it is/was amazing.  I haven't listened to it in a long time now but this article is…

Album does hold up for me as well.  It also seems to be one of those albums where, were you to ask 10 ppl what their favorite song was off of it, you'd probably get at least 5-6 different responses.  Which I think is a good thing.

Agree with you - that song is great and I never tire of it.

I still dig the unplugged "Layla" quite a bit.

I, like just about anybody else I'd say, get reasonably nostalgic about the shit that was playing when I was in high school.  Some of it still plays well for me (e.g., Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth, In the Meantime, …) while some of it clearly doesn't.  Ok, alot of it doesn't.  And the Spin Doctors definitely…

Damn you for doing that.

I think that's generally right, tho I didn't think "Beautiful Day" was that bad … until radio overplay went into full effect.

I concur.  My favorite gimmick poster.

The Alamo Drafthouse near me is actually playing this.  My friends and I did double-takes when we recognized FNL's JD McCoy as the cyber-seducee.

Was never able to really *get* On the Road.  Not as a college senior.  And not as a 30 y.o. either.  Have read it twice but it's just not that impressive to me - particularly not in a life changing way.  I'll probably read it once more before I die, just becuz I have a friend who is a Kerouac/Beat fiend …. but, yeah,…

Lemme see if I'm remembering this right …. Bunnicula.  Then, and I don't remember the order, The Celery Stalks at Midnight and Howliday Inn?

There was one book in the series (it was later in the series) that dealt with a bad guy who was capable of astral projection and shit.  It creeped me the fuck out as a 4th-5th grader.

Haha, so what if he ate alot of cheeseburgers?  He was a growing boy!

It's a shame - I'm sure kids these days don't even know about this series, that it exists, that it's any good, etc.  For my money, it was better than Hardy Boys and other stuff of that ilk.

I think Hitch would find them cases from time to time.  Also, I think in an early case they helped one of Hitch's friends out and, as a result, Hitch provided them with a limo and chauffeur whenever they needed one as a showing of his gratitude.

I was gonna go with "spielbergian" = a generally good time + sometimes (an undermining streak of sentimentality)

Yeah, I also don't buy Shakespeare in Love and Gwyneth Paltrow winning that year.  What was so remarkable about any of that?

Sideways was also how she liked it.

Everyone knows shit don't really go down till the i-double-dog-dare-you stage.  We still got some ways to go before you get all testy.