Patton Oswalt's Analysis
Really is fucking spot-on.

Letterman did dumb it down, but no way he could have totally taken away his natural crankiness and edginess.

I'm not 100% sure, because I'm not even that old, but the Tonight Show only got old and safe when Johnny got old and safe. But weren't people like Jack Paar and Johnny in the 60s way more edgy — for their times, of course — than Jay ever was?

Maybe It's A New Strategy
Maybe this has all been a publicity stunt in order to goose the Tonight Show ratings so that Conan wins his timeslot.

Plato's Stepchildren - Yuk
I'm actually kinda surprised at the love for it here. It was yet another in an increasingly long line "captured by superior beings and forced to do weird stuff until our heroes eventually beat them with their street (space?) smarts" episodes.

Add me to the parade of folks with admiration for "Tholian Web." If it's not the best 3rd season episode, it's pretty damn close.

Sorry to hear about your father, Keith. And I'm one of those people who likes hearing the personal stories of the the writers I read. It gives me perspective on who they are as people, and helps me understand where my taste and perspective intersects with their taste and perspective.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

Adam Carolla WAS a contractor, so there's that.

I Don't Want Sherlock Holmes as an Action Hero
The beauty of the Holmes stories wasn't EVER action sequences, but rather how he methodically figured shit out. I mean, of course, it's a film, and therefore it has to be visual, but the short stories and novels were full of movement. Holmes was either already out in…

Ray Davies Has A Lifetime Pass
Which entitles him to get away with stuff like this.

Best Kinks moment: trading my entire Doors collection for Kinks Size, Kinks Kingdom and Kinda Kinks.

Isn't This a Misleading List?
Wouldn't as song that came out at the beginning of the decade and stayed "popular," end up getting more spins than a song that came out in 2007?

In defense of the Washington Post, their pop culture radar is so finely tuned that they knew that Public Enemy was declaring 9/11 a joke 11 years before it happened.

At The End of The Day
You wrote and published a book. It's out there, theoretically forever. That's awesome, and something that you can take to your grave.

Poor Van Morrison
I guess that Astral Weeks Live at the Hollywood Bowl was so inessential that people simply forgot that it even existed.

How to bring Spectre up to an A-
I'll agree that "Spectre of the Gun" is easily one of the best episodes of S3, despite the fact that there is no way it should have worked. But for once the, er "sparse" on-planet soundstage sets worked in their advantage.

In fact, I'd pick Toots over Jimmy Cliff any day. Though it's like saying that I'd pick Otis Redding over Al Green. The world's big enough for all of them.

Everybody loved 70's Kong. Kids, women, intellectuals! When he fell down, everybody cried! Kids cried. Women cried. Intellectuals cried. When Jaws died nobody cried!

Not in California
I've lived in California my entire life, and have no idea what y'all are on about here.