Akira was awesome.  Check out Metropolis by Rentaro, or Steamboy.  They've both come pretty close to that experience for me.

While I don't think it was being romantic about fuel consumption, it did have the curious quality of being both preachy and shallow at the same time.

If you're from small-town, rural America, Cars had something important to say.  It was a touching elegy on the decline of small-town America, and how American civilization isn't just passing decent people and communities by, but basically saying they're not worth bothering about.

And The Turner Diaries was written by Dr. Seuss.

Cars 2 isn't that great, but it works as a kids movie.  But Cars always gets unfairly pilloried in any discussion about Pixar.  The first one gets attacked by critics because they can't identify with the movie's themes and have an instant allergic reaction to Larry the Cable Guy.

I agree.  A fun, well-animated reinterpretation of Shakespeare.  Kind of makes you wonder what they're looking for.

Mellifluous . . . and a tranny!

Nah.  Gotta be Colorado—pretentious and oxygen-starved.

I'm ready for hip hop to outgrow it's most frustrating tradition:  releasing albums.

I remember being a freshman in college and hearing Pearl Jam's "Ten" album being blasted from the windows of every sorority girl's car on campus.  Everywhere you turned in 1991, you were under assault by Eddie Vedder's voice, which sounds startlingly like a grunge version of Ethel Merman.  The over exposure just…

I agree that you could say the same for women, but not nearly to the same extent.  Most of the programming on television is targeted at women.  Programming for men is mostly an afterthought.

Aren't you forgetting Taco Bell? 

I would argue that this isn't what they want, merely what they've been offered.

I probably didn't do a good job of separating my points and probably should have made two separate posts.  Point one was that escapist entertainment often takes different forms for men and women.

Probably not too many.  That's why I qualified my post in three places.

This show graphically demonstrates that, generally, women and men look for totally different things from television and movies.  On the whole, men like shows and movies where they can watch and think, "man, I wish that was me."  On the whole, women like shows and movies where they can watch and think, "Thank God…

Toby Keith—America's Favorite War Profiteer!

Thanks, ClearChannel!

She was actually killed in the hotel room by Colonel Mustard with a Grammy.

Maybe we should stop letting ignorant teenage girls on Twitter be the primary arbiters of pop culture in America.