"Nathan Rabin, resident hip-hop expert, dismisses a song for hypocritical combination of arrogant self congratulations nature, its profession of being 'real', and sucking really, really hard."

Damn, I'm always late to the party. "Idioteque" came to my mind immediately, and I was so excited that I'd found a great opportunity to throw in the Mel Gibson meme. It was going to go like this:

The Go-Gos and the Negro Problem were right about Hilburn
He was the go-to music critic for the L.A. Times for a long time, and he was the most hackneyed, cliched, ignorant, bandwagon-jumping music critic ever. He was always getting it wrong. I hated that guy. Glad he's retired.

@Coldstream: You're assuming I'm male. I'm not.

Height often has nothing to do with it. Some of the most intimidating people I've met were much, much shorter than me. In any case, I've got about an inch on Tilda Swinton.

To help even the score a bit
I think Tilda Swinton is a tremendous actress. She comes across as a truly brilliant person in interviews.

Incorrect. True hipsters don't own televisions.

I'd not known that superhero panhandlers were a thing in LA, either (having grown up there).

I think it may have started with Robin Williams in Aladdin.

Yes, but this sounds like the same thing people have said since the beginning of written communication.

Oooh, thank you thank you
…for sharing my hatred of "Crazy Bitch." I know I'm a bit of a paranoid ex-women's studies major, but for the love of God, if there isn't anything more depressing than watching small-town girls in jean skirts and bedazzled flip-flops screaming the lyrics to this song at the top of their…

@Yoko: I dunno, I think there are definitely worse genre names I've heard. Anything with the suffix -core, for instance.

I'm with you there, Mr. Egg. Once they got an audience, Kilborn's Daily Show was hilarious. Really cruel, biting humor that made me laugh out loud often. I was not impressed with Jon Stewart at first… how wrong we both were.

Hmm, I think you're right about "Roland", dadafari. Well, not about the asshole part, but the other stuff. The version of "Roland" that was released before TOTBL is especially Divisiony.

"No I in Threesome" fills me with blind, seething rage.