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Sad to see all of these great writers go, but I'm also excited about getting to know some new, potentially great voices.  I hope the AV Club puts more focus on music, which has been marginalized since Hyden's depature, and also goes outside the 35+ vortex a bit (part of that group now, but I'd be up for hearing from

Not a bad call-out, but it was more about me not recognizing Matt Jones as a name of someone who would be likely to appear on The Office, doing a google search and saying "Hey, it's Badger," and then thinking of football Matt Jones.  Fortunately, I'm not a Jags fan.

Was anybody else besides me hoping that Jim's ridiculous startup tanks, and the finale features a wiped-out Jim and Pam penniless on the streets of Scranton?

And now I know that Badger from "Breaking Bad" shares the same name as the biggest bust in Jacksonville Jaguars draft history.

The Ricker goes New Wave, moonwalks and listens to Mr. Mister.

Hey, people of Atlanta, Amelie thinks the fact that you live in that particular city makes you uninteresting because … because.  BURN, y'all.  Anyway, let Big Boi and Ted Turner know about this if you get a chance, OK?

Jim Nantz doing an in-game promo for TruTV's "Lizard Lick Towing" was basically the highlight of March Madness for me.

Mike Patrick, who had the dubious distinction of being the least objectionable member of that team … but only because Maguire and Theismann were really, really atrocious.

I really enjoyed the brief period in the 90s when he was on FOX and had to read promos for John Leguizamo's short-lived sketch show, "House of Buggin'."

This is fantastic, I really wanted some resolution on whether Kendrick made her dreams come true and became the next hot mashup DJ.  I'd settle for some sort of explanation as to why someone was broadcasting a local college a capella competition that garnered both a play by play guy and color commentary by Elizabeth

"And that, boys and girls, was the night that 'cringe comedy' died …"

Particularly now that Jane Lynch (hopefully) no longer has "Glee" obligations.

"No word yet on what the production plans to do with its extra $3.7 million,"

I don't know, I'm begining to suspect this kid is a bit of a self-absorbed douche.

I'm still waiting for the release of this EDM movie:

I'm calling it now: Diplo will give the best acting performance from a DJ in a movie since John Digweed's epochal turn in 2000's GROOVE.  Every American between the age of 30 and 35 remembers the first time they watched the scene where Diggers dropped "Heaven Scent" and changed the atmosphere of the illegal warehouse

Yep, lowish six figures.  Estimated at something like $350K.  The guy almost certainly has paintings that are worth 20x that amount.

The real joke is that anyone made a big deal at all about Jay-Z owning a piece of the Nets.  Turns out his share is 1/15 of one percent.  That's probably less than Fergie and Jimmy Buffett each own of the Miami Dolphins, and nobody's speculating about how their star power is going to draw free agents to the team.

All of you clamoring for an R rated version of Robinson's life story are really forgetting that this movie's target audience is the next 30 years of lazy junior high social studies teachers who want to fill two days of their Black History Month unit.

Agreed, but they thought so much of it, they sold the movie on it twice.