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I've been giving Macca a second chance lately, too, now that I'm pushing 40.  I guess I'm just old, square, and dull.  But "Jet" is such a fun song!

Since it was Easter in Western Christendom, I didn't do a whole lot, pop-culture-wise.  I was able to break the bicycle and kiddie trailer out for the first time this year, and give Malinger-Jr. a ride around town on Friday and Saturday (before it got too cold and started to rain).  I also roasted a pretty amazing

That "she makes me come from my boots" line had me rolling on the floor for about an hour.  It was perfect.  Another moment that had that effect on me was when Tommy explained the importance of Tinky-Winky holding an AK-47 on one of Maggie's T-shirts.

Saxondale is the only thing I've seen Coogan do that is even in the same genre as the Alan Partridge incarnations.  Coogan has a knack for these characters who are arrogant, yet transparently unjustified in their feelings of superiority.  I still like Partridge better, only because he's a complete twit and the

Ol' Teflon Fred.  The suckiness of his surroundings never sticks to him.

Esposito to Quaid in the desert [through clenched teeth]: "You are fired!"

To me, the biggest disappointment about the movie is that it didn't focus its attention on telling a story that made you understand why the Draft Riots were happening (i.e., what was the Irish-Americans' beef?), why they attacked who they did, etc.  As I remember it in the movie, DDY and DiCaprio are all, "We're going

Well, aren't they talking about a new Zorro series?

I see Scorcese's slippage starting much earlier: with The Age of Innocence.  At the time, I attributed it to his making a period piece that was outside his normal comfort zone, focused on an era, class, and ethnicity he didn't know nearly as intimately as those he had focused on in his great films up 'til then.  I

In some ways, Deadwood was the corrected (read: interesting and engaging) version of this movie, just with less emphasis on Celtic immigrants.

Not just bad performances, but ridiculously bad casting in the first place (really, their performances weren't any different than what we expected, were they?).  The worst part, though, was the narrative/directorial decision to focus on those two limpid and lifeless characters, instead of the myriad of more

This movie was so disappointing that by the end, some chick took a call on her cell phone, saying, "Oh, nothing.  Just watching Gangs of New York…"  and I didn't even care.  For years I was pissed that an absolutely wonderful Daniel Day-Lewis performance (really, Al Pacino should study it for a lesson on how to be

I was thinking of Gordon Brown.  Consider:

Someone should do a thinly veiled spin-off/rip-off, featuring the adventures of a gay artist in 1960s New York, coming to terms with his sexuality and how much he can reveal to the world.  He couldn't be just like Sal, or they'd get sued, but they could slightly tweek a few things.  They could make him Greek, instead

@avclub-61938d93498e7f0ed5e6527b1cee656a:disqus I don't think any state tops Wisconsin for that kind of schizoid politics — and not just now, but for decades.  This was the home of Joe McCarthy, you'll remember, but at the same time, there was Fightin' Bob LaFollette.  Today, our US Senators are tea-bag favorite Ron

I have my doubts that an ad run on Fox News-Flavored Product aimed at improving people's opinion about coal would even bother to lie about it being clean or renewable, or even the future for that matter.  None of those are selling points to the core Fox viewership.

Here is the best place I've seen so far to state that a friend of mine from Tennessee says that he has an aunt who refers to Kentuckians as "Yankees."

I just realized that I haven't seen David Cameron on the news in a couple of years.  I used to see Blair and even that Terry Jones look-alike, whose name escapes me at the moment, all the time.  Has Britain just been on vacation for the past couple of years, with a "Gone Fishin'" sign in the window at 10 Downing St.?

The real trouble for Democrats is just starting, because at the national level, there is no credible post-Obama leader.  The party is so shallow on the bench that people are already talking about Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden as the front-runners for the presidential nomination in 2016.  Hillary Clinton will be

Remind me what you're studying in grad school…