My 13 year old son inexplicably asked me to dig up "The Reason" to put it onto his new iPod he got for his birthday this past weekend. I have no idea how he remembers who "Hoobastank" was…

Ken Kennedy, in a weird coincidence, I was working at Atari in the summer of 2004.

Yee Yee, for the love of God, watch the entire series ASAP. And don't listen to these guys - the show was great as of the pilot episode (nothing on the show has ever been as funny as that first time Brock dug his thumbs into The Monarch's eyes)…

Advice needed
I've liked this show a lot in the past but I gather that this season was truly awful.

I kind of blotted out that Megamind thing. How does an animated movie get that far along in production without anyone realizing that it isn't working, not to mention that they probably shouldn't tip their hand by showing everyone how lame it is?

Ending on a down note, but it was a great season
Tonight's episode was easily the weakest of this new season. It seemed sort of half-finished to me, and paced in a really flat way.

I think of the "tooth" line all the time, usually during meetings at work…

I just finally caught Pilgrim (my 12 year old son wanted to see it), and was surprised to like it a lot. The trailer made me sort of embarrassed to be a comic nerd…

I completely forgot that I saw Iron Man 2 (or even that it was released at all) until this round up, so I have to concur with LadyUranus.

What's funny about finding this interview is that I was just emailing someone today about Kids in the Hall and mentioning how much I always loved Kevin. His skit about the guy who is possessed by the beard he grew on vacation is one of my favorite comedy skits ever.

Natural Born Killers is the worst movie I ever saw in a theater
unless… did I see that Spy Kids 3D thing in the theater with my kids?

Today is a state holiday in MA
Flags in Boston are at one and a half mast

These do sound extremely fake.

Definitely check out some Clowes. His Eightball comics in are fantastic, but the "Art School Confidential" story (only 4 pages long) was particularly good.

I've been a videogame "artist" for 18 years and I mostly agree with Ebert
His mistake was using the words "can never". If he'd said "aren't" or "haven't yet been", he would have been indisputably correct.

You need to read Clowes' original Art School Confidential comic , if you haven't — a devastatingly true appraisal of what it's like to be an art student. The panel of the broken art school graduate listlessly frying a burger on a griddle while hoping he dies soon was awesome.

I was working as an overnight convenience store clerk, newly married and a year out of college in a new city when I saw "Clerks" at the Seattle Film Festival. It's the only Kevin Smith movie I liked, but it hit home when I saw it, for sure.

Holy shit, I came here to post some of those same articles myself, pointing out that the Onion sometimes seems to be following me and taking notes. The middle two in particular, about the Simpsons suicide note and the man horrified to hear himself describe his "career" were like punches to the gut when they first were…

The first/only great movie of 2010
Just fantastic.

I disagree with Mexican Blade Runner that AI was an awful movie but agree that the second act was the problematic one. The coda with the AI creatures de-icing the boybot in the future was my favorite part of the movie.