Aqualung, my friend…

What I want to see is country music taking on prog-rock influences.  Double-necked mandolins!  Twenty-minute lap pedal steel solos!  Losing you woman and your dog in 17/6 time!  A convoy drawn by Roger Dean!

Adjusted for century, prevailing mores, and sensitivity inflation, both acts fall at about the same tick on the social-acceptability scale.

In defense of older religions: pretty much all the ones that survived into the present day are at least frank about their beliefs, and offer them up for anyone to critique, or make of them what they will.  The Catholics don't wait until you've been baptized, and have donated several hundred grand, to break the news…

Now that the cliché trail has been well & truly blazed … "Black Dog" and "Rock n' Roll." [duck]

Some kinds of show seem to hold up to binge viewing better or worse than others.  For example, even the very best half-hour comedies seem to get a little monotonous and irritatingly frenetic in 4+ episode clusters—even AD and It's Always Sunny start to pall for me after the second consecutive episode.  By contrast,…

Some kinds of show seem to hold up to binge viewing better or worse than others.  For example, even the very best half-hour comedies seem to get a little monotonous and irritatingly frenetic in 4+ episode clusters—even AD and It's Always Sunny start to pall for me after the second consecutive episode.  By contrast,…

I dunno, @avclub-146bc30c345d31f3468fec764a1970e1:disqus : no version of Batman has really touched "the heights of public consciousness" more than Adam West's—and yet I wouldn't call that perforce the best or truest version.  With apologies to Chesterton, there is something more amazing, adventuresome, and fantastical…

Ah, but there are actually developmentally retarded types who haven't learned much or grown on any intellectual/emotional level since college.  There are indeed scattered claques of 40- and 50-year-old "adorable sociopaths" in the world, and trust me: they're not even slightly adorable.  In fact, for those not…

Ah, but there are actually developmentally retarded types who haven't learned much or grown on any intellectual/emotional level since college.  There are indeed scattered claques of 40- and 50-year-old "adorable sociopaths" in the world, and trust me: they're not even slightly adorable.  In fact, for those not…

And a vast improvement it is—not every "reimagining" is a great idea, but Miller and Byrne's reversals of the older superhero/civilian dynamic made both Superman and Batman snap into focus, and become the characters they always should have been.

I believe the quote that Tarentino's Bill was referring to—as well as the character's likely conception of Superman—was the Silver Age version … whom the Kill Bill reference describes rather better.

Seen about a dozen-plus episodes of the original series, but haven't watched anything Star Trek since before TNG premiered.  Feels as if that ship has just sailed, period—all the spin-offs seem difficult to keep straight, or pay much attention to.

"Eugene Levy's been pantsed!  I think we all know who's behind this … and I've got a HILARIOUS plan for revenge!"

Well, everyone's indian-dude impressions can't be as tasteful as mine.

With a nice, unfiltered cup of local tap water.

A whole Julie Brown song, @avclub-9f3362679d786df531bab7953d7ab610:disqus?  You're a more patient fellow than I.

@avclub-0db1815e07be8109b6ef581c664cd4ef:disqus isn't gonna live in a third-world country with all the conformists.

I couldn't stomach it … mainly because I detest post-Golden Age GL, and that goes triple for the Green Lantern Corps and all its miserably sci-fi pomps & works.  Pre-New 52 Alan Scott or nothing, baby!

Make it from the viewpoint of someone like Rabin's unnamed friend, laboring in thrall to a Seltzer/Friedbergesque hierarchy.  Done right, it could be a merciless combination of S.O.B. and Office Space.