At the risk of sounding like your civics teacher…"I find it so repugnant I just want it to be illegal" can a pretty slippery slope. Consider that
— The gay rights struggle was necessary in the first place because most people (in less PC times) found homosexuality absolutely repugnant, and had no problem stripping gay…

That line, "you can't yell 'fire' in a crowded theater," was originally used by Oliver Wendell Holmes, to argue that it's perfectly fine to throw antiwar activists in jail. The line sounds reasonable on the surface, but the actual result of its application was thousands of people imprisoned/deported for their beliefs…

Cat milking? Check. Sting? Check. Fat man covered in boils? Check.
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The Epic That Never Was: Tells the story of an earlier (1930s) failed attempt to film I, Claudius, which starred Charles Laughton as Claudius. Pretty interesting…it's available as a special feature on the I, Claudius DVD set.*

I love Lynch's Dune! I was 9 or so when I first saw it, so I appreciated it initially as a big dumb sci-fi spectacle (worm riders!). Later, I became a fan of Lynch in general and appreciated Dune's weirdness and bad taste (cat milking!).

Apparently, he didn't even know who Kelly Clarkson was (as he's not really plugged in to Top 40), he just showed up as a favor to a friend, or something like that.

I see your point, but I don't see what difference it makes. If I like to be called Tom and not Tommy or Thomas, that preference might seem silly or arbitrary to you, but it's my name, and my business. You can insist on calling me Tommy when you know I don't like it (that is, you can be a dick)…or you can show me…

1) You got it half-right. A waltz is a kind of dance, and a kind of music that's appropriate for that particular dance (not any old kind of dancing, but specifically, waltzing).
2) If I'm holding a rock, and ask you, "what is this?" you would say, "that's a rock." You wouldn't say, "it might be a hammer." True,…

I'm not a music major, but: (a) waltzes tend to be in 3/4 time, but that doesn't mean that every piece in 3/4 time is a waltz; (b) time signatures are not fractions (there's no division going on there); top number = beats per bar, bottom number = value of each beat…usually, 4 for quarter note, 8 for eighth note; (c)…

I agree with you here, basically. But even if Dylan's influence was a negative thing, it's still, undeniably, influence. If we say that Black Sabbath influenced a zillion metal bands, we count the shitty bands, as well as the good ones.

If you mean the folky guitar + harmonica sound of early Dylan, that sound died in the 60s (and it doesn't really belong to Dylan anyway). But Dylan's influence on rock is all over the place, as he introduced the idea that rock should be an adult music, breaking away from "She Loves You Yeah Yeah Yeah," and becoming…

Is that true? If so, that's a triumph of democracy. Things are usually named after the guy who built the town's first bank back in 1812…who gives a fuck about that guy?

"No SatchMo No Jazz, No R&B, No Soul, No Rock & Roll."

I don't dispute that some women might do that…though if my date started beating me over the head with hockey facts, I wouldn't be impressed…I'd wonder if she were on drugs.

Worf's Batleth

These puns make me Sade.

Those flight lessons were a major pain in the ass, to be sure. But if you persevere, and figure out how to control a plane, the second half of the game goes a lot more smoothly. You can fly from Point A to Point B and save yourself a shit-ton of time.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the stage…CHELSEA LIGHT MOVING!

Also, TV living spaces always seem unrealistically clean to me. It's hard to believe that these characters can do their thing as super-cops (or whatever) and still keep their apts. so damn clean.

Don't look back at the explosion you just caused. That would be totally uncool.