We had cable, so I saw MTV and thus had no use for Friday Night Videos.  Interestingly, though, I would watch Casey Kasem's Top-Ten video countdown show on Saturday mornings.  He wouldn't even show whole videos (only a half-hour syndicated show, y'see).  I think they only showed the #1 video in its entirety, but that…

I've never heard of Night Flight, but it sounds perfect for the witching hour.  You're absolutely right about late-night programming: it needs to be weird and surreal, because the people who are watching are not normal people — they're night owls.  Tom Snyder got it, and I remember him talking about it once, saying…

Thanks for the clarification.

Oh, I realized I was going off on a tangent, but the "blaming the victim" comparison just got me thinking.

This era resembles an era that doesn't make it into your formulation: the late-1950s-early-1960s, when the Ricky Nelsons and Pat Boones of the world were topping the charts.  Same kind of bland, inoffensive dopamine for a time when Americans felt particularly prudish.  Well, what would characterize our political and…

Did you notice how no one asked Paul Ryan what newspapers he reads?  SEXISM!

My wife also gets the print edition.  I, too, enjoy the nude photo spreads.

One of Letterman's Top Ten lists back in the 1980s was "Top Ten Worst Places in Hell" (which is apropos of this Newswire item!).  One of them was "Rex Reed's living chair."

CLONING SPECIALISTS AND GENETIC GRAFTERS: "We're working on it!"

CLONING SPECIALISTS AND GENETIC GRAFTERS: "We're working on it!"

For whatever reason, I can imagine Puff Daddy Sean Diddy Money Combs doing that much more easily that I can Kanye West.

She might be more like a Lee Ann Rimes-type celebrity train-wreck than a Britney Spears one.  The "country" part of her music might get better, I suppose, once she's old enough to have some real, adult heartbreak to write and sing about.

PHRASING!

You know who really came out great in that whole thing?  Beyonce.

Is it blaming the victim to ask questions of him/her?  For example, some people caught some shit for asking why Rhianna would seemingly get back together with the guy who beat her pretty severely, expressed no remorse, and left lots of publicly viewable evidence of his crime.  I mean, I think it's a reasonable…

You mean that gay rumors about the guys start after they break up, or that they had gay rumors swirling about them before dating Taylor Swift?

According to Louis CK, there's a place down in Chinatown where they have, like, a barrel full of duck vaginas for sale.

@avclub-b0dae075785888267fc19871f3e7dab7:disqus , I love off-the-wall made-up names like that.  I try to come up with names like that for hypothetical situations, just to underline that the names are fake.  Not many of us in early-21st-century America are going to meet a real-life person named Cornelius, for example. …

Liked for "nothinged."

Careful where you say that, 'cause "freakazoid," while a harmless enough mild insult in American English, can mean something more offensive in other cultures.  For example, I think Tiger Woods caught a lot of hell in Britain for insensitivity when he called some prostitute by that word.