I really get what you're saying about other games seeming empty and rote. I had a similar experience this summer after beating Hyper Light Drifter: no other games felt fun to play, and I really just wanted more Hyper Light Drifter to play. Breath of the Wild has been the first time in a while that playing a video…

Can we get an Allan Holdsworth obituary? I need to mourn into the digital void.

Byrds.

Are you calling the live Rolling Thunder Review version mediocre as well? Because that live version slays.

OH SHIT, I also went to a midnight screening of IMAX 3D Hobbit at soap opera fps, and it marks the only time I've ever walked out of a movie. I was on a third date with a lady friend that I liked a lot. She didn't want to leave early, so I went into the lobby, drank two beers, and then took a nap on a bench. The…

In fairness, I love Bet Ray Bill, the Thunder Frog, and Lady Thor. My ire is reserved for Thunderstrike.

Another point in favor of the Visionaries series is that it has the original coloring. The Omnibus is full of garish digital recoloring that, in my opinion, looks absolutely awful.

I was just going rereading the DC-era Jack Kirby comics a couple weeks ago, including the absurd Jimmy Olsen story guest starring Don Rickles. What's awesome and hilarious is that Don Rickles's face actually looks like it was drawn by Jack Kirby in real life.

You must learn to crush their spirit. I suggest incorporeal undead with level drain.

Oh shoot, the newswire comment system is functional again, and I can log in while using Firefox!

Yes, and I can only log-in on chrome. Firefox no longer works.

Am I alone in thinking that if any character in the animated version was actually intended to be gay, it was clearly Cogsworth?

I really enjoyed this write-up and the Monk article last night. As a jazz fan and a fan of Ignatiy's writing, I'd love to see him keep writing more jazz articles.

I noticed you left out Shadow Wilson, which is a mistake, and the tragically named Dick Hyman, which is for the best.

I knew two guys in college that had a short-lived punk band named Felonious Monk.

Don't worry, he's WAAYYYYYY in on this whole idea.

Monk later wrote a letter to Mel Leven that merely said, "I would have sued you for copyright infringement, except you're so ugly."

It's really the Sphere that makes it. Unrelatedly, I know a married couple - easily the whitest human beings who've ever lived - who decided to name their white child Thelonious. I don't think he'll be able to wear that name with anywhere near the panache.

I'm a HUGE Monk fan, so this is awesome. I was just listening to Monk and Coltrane: Live at Carnegie Hall in the car today - which is an awesome live album, by the way - and deciding it was time to go on another Monk kick.

ACTUALLY actually, the thinking man's pop is Mango Reinhardt.