I tried to click on it, and it made me log into my avclub account (rather than disqus) and then took me to a "content not found" page.

"I'm doing a piece on entertainers working past ninety. I'm meeting all these people I never heard of. So, you were in radio?"

Motto panakeku!

I'm a little worried that once I finally have enough money floating around to pick up a Sandman anthology, I'll be well outside his target audience.

My understanding is that the response could be "nope - better run to the state-run liquor store before it closes at ten o'clock on the dot."

It's so on-the-nose that it has to be either a) rejected jokes from an Oscars telecast or b) the truth.

Pyre, squire, fire, dire (if you're from the Midwestern part of Scandinavia they're all pronounced the same) - I never thought about it before, but "ire" may be the most METAL sound ever for rhyming.

That's the thing with these infographics - what do these numbers mean in the context of a small population? Especially when some metals include members of other metal bands.

The one Finnish guy I know doesn't parse the term too heavily, although he is very clear on the cultural and linguistic differences between his country and neighboring countries'.

Darkness on the Edge of Town is a great showcase of both Springsteen's greatest strengths - writing really, really sad songs, and writing deeply sad, almost miserable songs with choruses so soaring and ebullient that it seems like the whole song is upbeat. (And then there's "Adam Raised a Cain," which doesn't fall in…

The line "You got a fast car / Is it fast enough that we can fly away?" really encapsulates that mix of hope and bitterness.

This summer on CBS!

This comes up in my family from time to time - for a lot of (white) Boomers, his legacy is Vietnam, full stop. Personally, I find the fact that a single president passed the Civil Rights Act and the Medicare/Medicaid Act truly incredible, given how heavily we rely on the Judicial Branch for progress in the 21st…

It's far superior to "I'm sorry that you were offended."

The only people who work harder than Nic Cage are those Bollywood actors who do, like, eleven movies a year.

Psst - Aaron Eckhart killed Dagoo? and left him in the trash, purple monkey dishwasher.

If there's on thing demons can't stand, it's Comparative Literature.

God: Who are you to question me? Were you there when I created the sea and breathed life into the…

Sils Maria and Adventureland were both excellent demonstrations of her ability to convey a character's emotional life through small facial expressions and body language - she's probably one of the better actors in Hollywood for commanding a screen with an internal performance (in a better world, she'd be cast as the…

I didn't know Bruce Villanch commented on the avclub!