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One 100 Grand Candy Bar.  Those are the candy bars that are worth the most, obviously.

It's outside the scope of normal coverage, but the AV Club should review that Kacey Musgraves album.  Would not be shocked to see it turn up in lots of 2013 AOTY lists.

Bissinger can spend his money however he wants, but it's a little annoying to read this after he has spilled a lot of ink concerning how the kids he wrote about in Friday Night Lights got screwed with regard to life rights agreements, and how much public hand-wringing he's done over Boobie Miles (the central figure in

Listened to this last week, still holds up. I always had affection for Donna's track on the album, "Blue" … wish we could have heard more from her, but she was a rock casualty and has disappeared.

I remember pulling the "buy ticket for X, see Y" gambit for "Basic Instinct" with a "Wayne's World" feint in '92. Worked beautifully until my Mom picked me and my friends up from the theater with my sisters, who had previously seen "Wayne's World," and proceeded to try to get us agree with how awesome certain lines

Liam's contribution was a comment about not kicking Justine Frischmann (subject of the song in the linked clip) out of bed.

I bet they were more fun to hang out with back then than they are now.

HAA is their "Electric Cafe."

Heeyyyyyyyyyy Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad whaddaya think about yer son nowww?

Durst is no longer wearing the red Yankees cap backwards … he's wearing a plain black cap frontwards. PROGRESS. MATURITY.

If it means he's no longer the head writer on SNL, I'm all for it.  Something tells me his constant "Ain't I a stinker?" persona isn't going to sustain a 60 minute talk show, though.

I call BS, bros were not popping collars in '94.

That promo picture is basically the Mount Rushmore of punchable faces.

Yeah, the homebody playwright guy in London was a Blues Traveler superfan.

I just read "Our Band Could Be Your Life." Based on that, I'm just going to assume that most of these essays will somehow find a way to work in a reference to how much of a dick John Lyndon is.

Amazingly, someone actually sued Abdul claiming that they were the real lead vocalist on several of the tracks on "Forever Your Girl," not Paula. You'd think that would be a shameful thing …

If I remember correctly, that lyric was in Tammi's Left Eye-style "rap", and was part of a recording session for the group she was already a member of when the show started filming.  Yes, it was a terrible lyric.  And I'm pretty sure I saw a clip of an interview with her from a few years back (she's still a reality TV

I thought Elka was cute at the time and she was the first cast member who was fairly close to my age when I originally watched.   She was a bit of a priss, though.

Kelly from NOLA
Becky from NY
Jacinda from London
Rebecca from Seattle
Mallory from Paris

These are available on Hulu Plus, but without the licensed music.  So this may be your best opportunity to see Norm, Heather and Julie's roller skating rink excursion actually backed by Cece Peniston's "Finally" like it was intended, everybody.