Good call, christy.

THERE'S ALWAYS TIME FOR MYSTIC PIZZA.

Katims was also a writer and story editor on My So-Called Life. This bodes well.

And tight t-shirts, Captain Giggles. Don't forget the t-shirts.

Oh my god Karen, you can't just ask people why they're white.

You could make a case for Match Game as the Algonquin Round Table of the 1970s.

It's all about Mallrats.

Stockard Channing was Betty Fucking Rizzo. Lifetime pass, though I'm not sure why she'd need it.

Her name
There was some reality show a while back about a hair salon in L.A. I really can't imagine why I watched it. Anyway, Alia was on, getting her hair done for the Emmys, and she instructed the guy on how to say her name properly:

Wait, so having lots of sex with another lady and being in love with her and stuff and eventually marrying her doesn't make you a lesbian?

Hey, the spammer slipped in an AD reference! Nice job, spammer!

Rosalita? I think you mean Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out.

I'm a huge Beatles fan, but I'm not sure there's much on Rarities that qualifies as essential. Unless you REALLY need an alternate version of "Don't Pass Me By".

I'll go you nearly a decade better, Switters. I bought Chronic Town on cassette in 1982. I listened to it on the Sony Walkman that took me two months to save up for working at my first real job at a grocery store.

I tend to construe the term "Middle East" much more narrowly, I guess. In this case I was thinking specifically of Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria.

This looks good
The reviewer for the Portland International Film Festival said that Ajami was like Crash if Crash was a much, much better movie.

Will this be the place to post Bill and Ted quotes, then? All right. Ahem:

Let's hear some pitches for The Hater.

Wow.
I'm eating lunch, and as I read across that list of names I actually had to put down my PB&J for a minute to regroup. It's like this movie was scientifically designed to repel me.

I had a hell of a time parsing that sentence until I realized he was using "to student teach" as a compound verb.