@bungle77: Oh wow, I haven't thought about Newbury Comics in years. I'm on the West Coast, so I never saw any of their stores, but I remember buying a few CDs from their website on, thanks to their ads in the back pages of Wired. They'd almost always throw in a few stickers and those label-sampler CDs when you ordered…

I kind of miss the jean shorts, black pantyhose, doc martins, and ironic t-shirt combo that many ladies of the 90's used to wear.

Someone (I think it was Dorothy Gambrell) said something like: It may be fun to buy a copy of an album by Jerry Fallwell for ironic purposes—but at the end of the day the money is gone, and you now own a Jerry Fallwell album.

I think you mean: Begin an iterative process until you reach its terminal step!

Also: when shorts were really short, and socks were extra stripey.

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This makes me wonder… did the AV Club ever get around to doing a Gateway or Primer on the Carry On movies? I'm too lazy/scared to check.

I feel in no way conflicted about the fact that the Simpsons was pandering to my NPR-listening, whitebread cultural elitism. Also: I think Glass said, "Act four: corn relish," but I had to keep the volume down because I was also simultaneously listening to Radiolab.

I have to say that, even though I tend to enjoy Family Guy's theater of cruelty-tone, it is probably the sloppiest show in the bloc. It's got an attitude that says, "I came back from the dead. I'll do whatever the fuck I want."

Maybe something related to MAD magazine?

The singing telegram was great, because it was so obviously cheesy and horrible, but Marge reacted to it like it was the sweetest thing ever.

I enjoyed the hell out of "Hunting Accidents," but some of it reads like it was written by Dennis Hopper's character from Apocalypse Now (Pollard being Colonel Kurtz, of course).

Someone sang the wrong words to the wrong melody… it's little things like this that matter to me.

Well, I suppose that's an improvement over thinking, "Hey! It's Doogie! Look everybody, it's Doogie!"

I think that's what movie stars are going for. People will go to movies to see actors they like, often regardless of whether or not they'd otherwise be interested in seeing. A friend of mine when to see that Runaways movie because it had Kristen Stewart in it, even though she neither knew nor cared who the Runaways…

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Whenever I see him in something, I always wonder if he took the role for reasons of irony, or if he actually wanted to try acting. Also, is the squinting congenital or is it an artistic choice?

True enough — but then again, there's quite a few queer Who fans… and then there's the Paul McGann Estrogen Brigade.

I like the idea of Rory being a big part of Amy's adventures, and his grand romantic gesture of guarding Amy 2000 (give or take) years, because it seems to address the big problem that kept getting brought up during the Rose years: After traveling with the Doctor, who else could compare? Worse yet, who could you tell…

@Nummy: I agree that it's a good observation. Amy is the most Who Fan surrogate companion since — well, ever. The whole obsession with the Doctor that everyone else thinks is weird, held on to into adulthood when most other people have outgrown many of their childhood interests — if that's not the story of an old…

I remember reading how a critic (or somebody) said that the plot to Ringworld was basically just a take-off of "The Wizard of Oz", and you could tell by the characters: Louis Wu is Dorothy (an otherwise normal visitor to a magical land, astounded by the weird shit he's seeing); Nessus is the Cowardly Lion (seeking…

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