DANA'S HEART RACES!

Somebody call me? I was out for a few days…

Somebody call me? I was out for a few days…

I remember watching an episode of "GI Joe" where Roadblock's uncle and aunt are being menaced by laser-toting bikers, trying to force the uncle and aunt to give up their diner or something. All that was bad enough, but throwing the top of a swing-top garbage can out as a perfect jump ramp was enough to make me and a…

I remember watching an episode of "GI Joe" where Roadblock's uncle and aunt are being menaced by laser-toting bikers, trying to force the uncle and aunt to give up their diner or something. All that was bad enough, but throwing the top of a swing-top garbage can out as a perfect jump ramp was enough to make me and a…

I say thee nay on "To the Five Boroughs" - that one was the biggest surprise in the weekend listening wake back in May. If I'm dropping a Beastie Boys album down to that level, I'd either say it's "Hello Nasty" or "License to Ill" - the former's got a couple of solid singles and a lot that just didn't cohere for me,…

I say thee nay on "To the Five Boroughs" - that one was the biggest surprise in the weekend listening wake back in May. If I'm dropping a Beastie Boys album down to that level, I'd either say it's "Hello Nasty" or "License to Ill" - the former's got a couple of solid singles and a lot that just didn't cohere for me,…

I adore "Talk Show Host," but if I'm going to live inside a song with only the song, I'll go for the quiet, yearning alienation of "How to Disappear Completely" - especially the live in Paris version from Canal Plus in 2001 - over the prickly, vengeful alienation of the other. …not that the other isn't sometimes a…

I adore "Talk Show Host," but if I'm going to live inside a song with only the song, I'll go for the quiet, yearning alienation of "How to Disappear Completely" - especially the live in Paris version from Canal Plus in 2001 - over the prickly, vengeful alienation of the other. …not that the other isn't sometimes a…

"Shadrach" would also be a solid choice from "Paul's Boutique." I've spent hours on that song in the last few decades.

"Shadrach" would also be a solid choice from "Paul's Boutique." I've spent hours on that song in the last few decades.

Look at that. Penguin. Run.

Look at that. Penguin. Run.

LEGO! LEGO! LEGO!

LEGO! LEGO! LEGO!

Man, those born-again-"Archies" - they put me off Archie first, but the images remain. That sequence where the reporter is so shocked that Betty has been worked "to the point where she's sleeping" but SURPRISE! She's praying! is still just too off-putting.

Man, those born-again-"Archies" - they put me off Archie first, but the images remain. That sequence where the reporter is so shocked that Betty has been worked "to the point where she's sleeping" but SURPRISE! She's praying! is still just too off-putting.

Being more than geeky enough up here in Canada, I have no end of people asking me if I watch "Big Bang Theory" - colleagues, friends, even the shop clerks at the place where I pick up LEGO. (As though that wasn't obvious enough…) Again and again I say that I already self-identify and live as a geek - why would I need…

Being more than geeky enough up here in Canada, I have no end of people asking me if I watch "Big Bang Theory" - colleagues, friends, even the shop clerks at the place where I pick up LEGO. (As though that wasn't obvious enough…) Again and again I say that I already self-identify and live as a geek - why would I need…

The riffing on the "Final Justice" song over the end credits is pretty excellent, too. "He takes a roast and wraps it in bacon… Mashed potatoes on the side…"