Ah yes, those halcyon days when I had oodles of time to dick around on the internet. Glad to see you're still here too!

Yeah, imagine the gall of those musicians, wanting to get paid for their work. I mean, being able to play an instrument is something you're just born with, and songs spring fully formed from the ether like Athena from the head of Zeus. All musicians do is jump around onstage, which a bunch of fucking monkeys could do…

I'm concerned by all this stabbing we seem to be doing. Do women have a reputation as stabbers? I've been alive for half a century and I've stabbed two, three people at most.

When I was like 13 I wrote a spy parody and the villain was named Dr. Evil. Mike Myers owes me some money.

It'd be nice (bee nice?) if, when they bring the mascot back (as I'm sure they will when this campaign grows stale), they dumped "Buzz" and used a lady bee instead. Since, you know, worker bees—i.e. the ones who locate pollen, haul it back to the hive, make honey, and basically do everything important except fertilize…

Interesting. Can you cite some references? A cursory googling indicates most dictionaries do not make this distinction.

Gotta say, that one bugs me too. Whenever I buy "advanced" tickets to something, I half expect to be offered teleportation as a delivery method.

Ignorance, stupidity, and laziness are the major mechanisms of language change.

It's been corrected, but man, that was killing me.

I dunno, what do you do about "flammable" and "inflammable"? The latter should mean the opposite of the former, yet they both mean the same thing. All you can do is shrug, say, "English is weird sometimes," and tell people to use whichever they prefer.

Trigger warning: internet pedantry.

I'd sub in Margo, whose record was one of my favorites of the year, for Maren Morris, who kind of sucks. I mean, Keith Urban also sucks, but his records at least feature some decent songcraft.

One of the ideas in my "if I ever write a screenplay" file is about this, although it would focus not on the actual thief but on Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire, who were suspected of the crime. They actually did have a bunch of stolen art, which they initially tried to dispose of in the Seine. It would be a…

The arrangement on this song is so great. It's similar to "Lost in the Flood" (maybe my favorite track on his first album) in the way the entry of the rhythm section is delayed longer than you expect. A lesser arranger (like me, probably) would bring the drums and bass in at the beginning of the first chorus, but…

It's top five for me, but the title track from this record gets the number one spot.

Or as we called it, "Bonecraft". Many fond memories of getting baked in the parking lot and playing mini golf. I think I can still play that entire course in my head.

Aidan Gillen and Maria Doyle Kennedy are the new Adrian Dunbar and Tara Fitzgerald.

I liked it. Dakota Fanning killed it as Cherie.

"Professionals" should be a goddamn classic. I've covered it with two different bands.

You kid, but baby-faced punk Winstone still makes this old dyke think twice.