Fair warning, "EZ Streets" is by Paul Haggis of "Crash" infamy. I do recall Pantoliano being good in it, though, so that's something.

You're thinking of "Chex Quest". I never played it or even heard of it until recently, but apparently it had pretty hardcore fans. There was an official sequel, and also a Chex Quest 3 released in 2008 as a gift to fans by the original developers.

That's why they would hear the pitch first. Being told to sing, say, an A, and then producing it spontaneously is called perfect pitch.

Tampopo?

And on the flip side in the Complete Cultural Myopia sweepstakes, I once met a friend of a friend who lived out in some tiny rural town and was terrified of the big city that was St. Cloud, Minnesota (pop. 70,000). Apparently she once tried to meet up with my friend, got hopelessly lost in the four or so blocks that…

We have over 100 years of cinematic canon, and you'll notice that not a single one of those actors was simultaneously talented and arrogant.

Braga is like a meteor, descending from the heavens to kiss the earth gently and passionately.

Actually, I think the bland is probably the deadliest weapon in these movies.

You can't print that!

Fun fact
Sarah Palin is an anagram for "Sharia Plan". HOPE YOU ENJOYED YOUR DOMESTIC-VIOLENCE-FREE LIVES, LADIES!

What do you mean? We've all been invited to participate in the celebratory fellatio. It's a party!

Sure, he might have been catapulted to '80s stardom… But would it really have been worth the Parkinson's Disease?

http://www.wired.com/threat…

Let us not forget that Scrooge McDuck bounced through most of the DuckTales NES game using his cane as a pogo stick. Let us also not forget that he is a lifelong "bachelor" and his only known relatives are a nephew and three great-nephews. HMMMMMMM.

Also check out (for no other reason than because I was listening to it again over the weekend) Yoko Kanno's soundtrack for Napple Tale. It's all over Youtube if you don't have it on hand. Easily the best music on the Dreamcast, and one of the best game soundtracks of the past decade.

Angela Lansbury, I think. Her motives are admittedly obscure.

By "victims", I mean "targets of the Count's revenge", really.

I haven't seen the movie adaptations, but the original novel of The Count of Monte Cristo is a pretty solid revenge story. For most of the book, the Count sees himself as an agent of divine retribution as he sets up elaborate social traps to utterly destroy three families; if I remember the ending correctly, I think…

I Distrust People Outside Of My Own Ethnicity But Make Sure To Express It Using Only Elaborate Code Words

Yeah, I didn't comment much, but I really enjoyed the column, and I'll try to file some of them like Earth Abides on my list to watch out for. Thanks!