I've got four words for you: Life finds a way.

That's the one where he meets the war horse, right?

It's telling that the kid has grown up so accustomed to computer-generated special-effects that he was actually concentrating on the plot when watching the film for the first time.  In 1993, when the world was watching the movie for the first time, most of us were so blown away by the special effects and action scenes…

I had a short-term job working as a software tester for an educational publisher that marketed to private schools in the South and home-schoolers (I posted earlier on another article about a different publisher I worked for before, which also marketed to home-schoolers — what is happening to this country?!).  My job…

Truly.  It would all be about people getting eaten by allosauri and shit.

"Torn" by Natalie Imbruglia, surely.

Whoa, a J.J. Jackson shout-out!  I loved that dude when I was a kid.  I kind of wanted him to be my uncle or cousin or something, because he seemed like a cool guy to me when I was 8.

"Stretch," huh?  Who's being creepy?

What a great song.  And "sex-as-youth" is a great way to describe it.  The way the guitar soars at the line "And her voice was like a bell" always makes me think it's a warm, April sunset, I'm 18 again, and I've just fallen in love.

Elvis Costello produced the Pogues' Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash.  Steve Lillywhite produced their follow-up, If I Should Fall from Grace with God, which was right after Lillywhite's work producing some songs on The Joshua Tree.

Surely "Norwegian Wood," too (though it is a little ambiguous).

What @avclub-d542a3419c3ad57206a96bcc86155ebc:disqus  said.  Good God!

I go home for lunch most days, and dragging myself back to the office for the afternoon is awful.

Liked for "'varsity level' sex."

I worked for an educational publisher (no out of business) who marketed to the home-school crowd.  My job was working on a series of reading books based on stories and myths (conveniently public-domain!) from ancient times up to the present.  Considering our target audience and the fact that so many of our stories…

Better dead than spread.

I wonder if raising my son Jedi Orthodox will prevent him from ever having sex.

Shanghai Lil never used the pill…

I heard that Warren Zevon refused to play "Werewolves of London" in concert, too.

I was on vacation from last Wednesday to yesterday, so I ate pretty fucking well in restaurants in Minneapolis and St. Paul.  I had a great breakfast burrito and Mexican coffee at a place in the Global Market.  I also had a tongue-titteringly good wild-rice (of course, it's Minnesota!) and mushroom bisque at the hotel…