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Definitely. The Stax museum is one of the best museums I've ever visited of any kind. Plus, if you get too close to Isaac Hayes's car, his voice comes over the speaker yelling at you to step off.

tiny plastic hammer
Anybody else disappointed this wasn't a carpentry-themed Guitar Hero spin-off?

Goin' Full McFerrin
Not to be outdone, Ben Lee is preparing an EP of his greatest hits performed entirely by armpit fart noise.

Would you play that with Tom Petty?
I think his solo in "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" at the George Harrison tribute is possibly my all time favorite guitar solo. And at the end using what I can only guess is some sort of leprechaun magic, he makes his guitar disappear! Can Kirk Hammett do that?

The clip thing was mildly amusing but the whole "catchphrase" gag was DOA. There's breaking the fourth wall, and then there's crashing through it headfirst covered in flopsweat. It's enough to make Zack Braff blush.

They've given all the characters awful, unfunny names for the sake of a few awful, unfunny jokes in the pilot. It's almost like they're planning on getting canceled.

Batbowl
Somewhere in the closet of my childhood home there's an unopened box of Batman cereal from 1989 complete with a plastic bank/bust of Michael Keaton. That summer I bought anything that had a Batman logo on it but I saved the cereal because I had read in the Parade magazine that comes with the Sunday paper that

At this point I have zero interest in the first thread of any given article on this site.

I love me some John D. MacDonald and I'm kind of surprised by all the meh-ing of the Travis McGee books. Sure, they're basically the male equivalent of chick lit, but damn if they aren't a fine palate cleanser in between more substantial books. I might be putting some hipster points on the line here but I think if

All Aboard - toot toot!
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that Scott must have sucked ass at Mortal Kombat when he was a kid. I bet his friends just gave him the cordless phone and played each other, throwing in the occasional, "Aw, you got me Scott."

My appreciation for Sublime has decreased in a directly proportional rate to the amount of pot I smoke, but I still think despite the sometimes dopey lyrics they made a lot of fun summertime music. They clearly loved reggae, punk rock and hip hop and any kid who gets a Sublime album and traces back the samples and

Now if they'd just fix the dubbing. Who thought it was a good idea to have Bobby Jindal do the voice of Eli's creepy assistant guy?

Your eyes see without looking and the moment holds. A scan, a spin, a bounce, a catch. The world compresses to a pinpoint of light containing nothing more than three pairs of sneakers inside three squares. You look to the left, throw to the right. You are the trickster god of PE. All four of these squares belong

I've got a sackful of M&Ms - hope you're not allergic to nuts!

You know Tupac, right?
Complaining about inconsistent messages on a hip hop album? Mixing sociopathic rhymes with hamfistededly earnest positive social messages on the same album is practically the fifth element of hip hop.

Eliza Dushku's entire acting career has been one long audition for the part of Jo in a remake of "The Facts of Life".

But I thought Adrock was down with the Ione?

How about a game where you throw George W. Bush at a shoe?

Despite what Tracy Jordan and the other grammar marauders say, it's also perfectly fine to end a sentence preposition with.

I can't think of another show with character that follow arcs like Buddy Garrity and Riggins. At the beginning of the show I was ready to dislike them as the stock character "bad guys" but by the second season they had won me over by being human and flawed in a very subtle, real-life way. I'm originally from a small,