" Peter Bash" sounds like it should mean something analogous to "sausage fest." "Yeah, I went to Barry's party the other night, but I didn't stay long because it turned out to be a real peter bash."

Thanks for clearing that up. I knew it was one of the two since I read both, but I just assumed it was Last Son. It's been a loooong time since I read those. That one thing always stuck with me because it was so perfectly realized and distilled what the character is all about.

I haven't seen the movie yet, but from what I've read, it seems like they got Superman fundamentally wrong. One thing about Superman that has always stuck with me is from a novel I read as a kid, one of the Elliott S. Maggin ones, I'm pretty sure it was Superman: Last Son of Krypton. The only thing I really remember…

Her perfectly straight, perfectly white "teeth" unnerve me.

Besides getting his ass kicked?

"She just followed me home. Can we keep her?"

So a lone do-gooder harboring a super-powered secret drifts around working odd jobs while being pursued by a nosy reporter who's onto him?  That seems…so familiar somehow…but I can't think of what it reminds me of. Oh well.  [Hoists backpack over shoulder, turns and walks off down the road towards the setting sun to…

Kate Bosworth's looks and Margo Kidder's everything else.

If they're trying to make shitty music, then they're an unqualified success.

"Bloodgold"?  You mean Moon Bloodgood.

I've seen like 5 minutes of Comedy Bang Bang, so I haven't heard much of his music other than his cover of "Panama" a while back on the AV Club, but I thought that was pretty good.  At least it was something approximating music, unlike this lovely young lady's cover of "Psycho Killer".

See, Wikipedia won't even touch this shit.

Like a cross between Petra Haden and Reggie Watts, except, you know, horrible.

It's a little-known fact that the Ford Tri-Motor airplane, when striking the side of a mountain at full speed, will immediately explode into flaming smithereens in a split second, leaving not a trace of debris behind.

We've got a great show tonight, so lets get to it, shall we.

I saw it on basic cable, so I saw it after all the panning and scanning.

FDR asked a lot of people to the WPA.  Did you go to high school in the '30s?

If the show had debuted on ABC Family nowadays, it would be called Freaky Little Geeks.  Or Geeky Little Freaks.  Or it would be two shows named either.

Major Asspain was my commander in the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps.

Pee, oui!