Call me a stereotype, but I'm a lady and Casablanca is, if not my favorite movie, definitely in the top five.

P.J. Soles is twelve kinds of awesome. She is so awesome that I once played in a band called the P.J. Souls. We changed it after one too many people accused us of ripping off the Bouncing Souls.

Depends on how widely you care to construe the term. Strictly speaking, yeah, a metaphor is a figure of speech or writing. More generally, "metaphor" and "symbol" are synonyms.

The soundtrack of Foxes is "annoying"? Hey, Donna Summer had many killer singles, and "On the Radio" is one of the killer…est.

I am endangered and majestic
And I totally watched this episode on a plane. I had a six-hour East-Coast-to-West flight and was feeling sick and really not looking forward to it, and then I got on the plane and realized it had DirecTV and I could watch Chuck. On a plane! It's probably not hip to be amazed by…

Looked more like Rickety Cricket.

When it's time to change, you've got to rearrange
Who you are into what you're gonna be
Sha na na na na na na na na
Sha na na na na

I'd like a Parenthood blog too. It definitely isn't terrible. It isn't great either, and mostly it makes me miss Once & Again (the last truly great family drama), but I do enjoy watching it.

The Chinese Docs are super-sucky, man. I call them Doc Fartens because they make farty noises when I wear the wrong socks. Also the leather is very creaky.

Cyndi Lauper
"All Through the Night" is the song I always imagine myself singing when I imagine auditioning for American Idol. I figure the range of the melody alone would have to impress the hell out of the judges.

I find myself strangely curious about the phrase "electrified hull". Like, a boat hull? Why would such a thing be electrified?

The Queen's not really in the closet though, is she?

Bandannas!
I rarely laugh at stuff on the AV Club, as years of depression have sapped my sense of humor along with my will to live. But the idea of Bret Michaels's brain being made of bandannas caused me to audibly chuckle.

That photo is really something
The level of cynicism in this article seems uncalled for. Someone piss in your Crunchberries this morning, Nathan?

They were on a break.

Thankful for small favors
I guess the phrase "keeping up with the Joneses" is still familiar enough to both provide the film's title and prevent it from being spelled as "The Jones" or, God help us, "The Jone's".

Joe's death was the result of a congenital heart defect, not a heart attack (i.e. a loss of blood flow due to a blocked artery).

Honestly, I don't remember what happened with Bale and Beckinsale's characters. I just enjoyed the SoCal milieu, McDormand being generally awesome, and Nivola singing Sparklehorse.

I still
Haven't seen Cadillac Records, even though Netflix has been streaming it for a while. I didn't even know about this project, but I'm more inclined to see it knowing it stars Alessandro Nivola. There's something really interesting about him as an actor, though I'm not sure what it is. He was amazing in Junebug…

Annoying title
How are you supposed to pronounce it? "After dot life"? If not, what's the point of the dot? Other than to annoy me?