I like mine covered in hot pastrami and spicy brown mustard. That's pretty darn good.

Chicagoans who like Italian beef should go to Nick's Roast Beef when they visit Philly. Not the one in Old City, the one is South Philly (20th and Jackson? I haven't lived there in a while so I've forgotten). You get a superior roast beef sandwich and you get to sit in a dump and get treated like shit by the…

John's Roast Pork. Their cheesesteaks are great too.

Or my brother's house.

My problem with the vegetables in a deep dish pizza is all the water escapes from them when they cook, but then it has no place to go, since it's trapped in a giant hockey puck, so the inside becomes all soupy. I don't want soupy pizza.

Roast Pork with sharp provolone and broccoli rabe, which is the real Philly sandwich, or crab cake sandwich in Baltimore (though the best ones are usually on the Eastern Shore).

I think the hard part is making sure the popcorn pieces don't stick to each other (and the peanuts in the mix), which otherwise would've just made popcorn balls.

She's been stunning on Little Big Lies. Her and Alexander Skarsgard make for an incredibly good-looking couple.

I definitely watched this movie a lot while I was in college (it's probably among the five movies I've seen the most), but I remember being pretty happy around then, mostly because I was high all the time. I didn't become a sad bastard until I was about 27, when I was drunk/hungover all the time. Now I'm an actual…

Are you a PA guy at a baseball stadium?

I'm still interested in new music, but I have way less energy to keep up with it than I used to have. I try harder now to appreciate music in the moment, while I'm listening to it, because chances are I'll forget who it was later or how I came across it.

I've been listening to everything by Dorothy Ashby on YouTube this week. It's extremely relaxing, she's got a great style, makes me wish I had learned to play the harp. Also makes me think about those early episodes of Gilmore Girls where they tried to make the harp player a strangely prominent character. I'm glad…

I was just listening to it, very good. Childish Gambino got a lot of attention for his '70s style album, but Thundercat's feels more authentic and he's such a dynamite bass player. He's really a cool combination of Bootsy and Zappa, with a soft rock side.

That sucks. It was a good tour.

The phone-message scene is still the most cringe-inducing thing I think I've seen on film.

Also, Belly, for being the 1998 thing ever, which puts it in the running for defining '90s movie.

I saw both of those last two you mentioned, as well as The Sandlot, in theaters as a baseball-obsessed tween.

You've Got Mail, I think. Hanks and Ryan, AOL, Greg Kinnear and Parker Posey, big box stores thriving, people serving caviar during the holidays - it hits a lot of '90s sweet spots.

I remember, besides the mega-popular 'I Believe I Can Fly', a version of 'Basketball Jones' and a Coolio song. I didn't know that 'Basketball Jones' was a Cheech and Chong thing at the time. I like that song.

D2 is good pick. There seemed to be a lot more live-action kids movies then: Mighty Ducks, Blank Check, Camp Nowhere, Homeward Bound, Dennis the Menace. Do they still make a lot and I'm ignoring them or is it just easier to make animation now?