As a guy who blew a bunch of money playing Plinko at a stag and doe recently…. I don't know. There's just something satisfying about the sound and the possibility that your chip is gonna fall on the grand prize. (For the record, I won a 6-pack of Miller High Life and some cheap beer mugs).

Yeah, the first one and Feathers are definitely their best. Did I ever hook you up with the rest of their albums? Like the most recent live + a few new studio tracks one?

I'm not able to access YouTube here so I'm not sure which song that is but I've got to go with either "Beyond the Fields We Know" or the super-long version of "Sleepy Silver Door" from Feathers (which is possibly my favourite album of the '00s)

One of the guys from the band is David Simon's nephew or cousin or something. There's another scene where one of their songs is playing on a car radio.

For some reason the movie that's made me the most enraged was Clint Eastwood's Bloodwork.
I think it was that I started watching it on TV late one night, got kinda hooked into it and watched the whole fucking thing, despite staying up waaaay too late and the final half hour of the movie being broken up by commercial…

Don't forget Evening at the Improv every night too. I spent a lot of my high school years staying up way too late, flipping between late night talk shows, shitty stand-up on A&E and whatever movie looked like it might contain boobs.

Oh man, the In Search Of… on the Amityville Horror House scared the everliving fuck out of 7 year old me. I watched it again in the '90s when it aired on A&E ad I gotta admit it still creeped me out.

@avclub-7a8b8402b2f0fc78cf726ee484a0a2b7:disqus Wow, there's a blast from the past!

I never really got that into the Broadways, but "I Hear Things Are Just As Bad Down in Lake Erie" is still one of my favourite songs of the late '90s (I had it on a mixtape and only recently bought a digital copy of the album, which didn't excite 30-something me too much).

That would be Murray
(and he's actually pretty good as late additions to Sesame Street cast go)

Seriously. I've seen hundreds of them on the side of the road but have never seen a living possum either.

Maybe she just thought potatoes were neat?

We have a sales rep on the other side of the country who insists on sending us his changes to ads/flyers/etc via fax… so we email him a PDF, he prints it, scribbles all over it with a sharpie and then faxes back this completely illegible block of black ink no matter how many times we tell him that fax machines don't…

I've always wished the Ramones had covered "Motörhead" by Motörhead so I could begin and end every mixed CD with "R.A.M.O.N.E.S." by Motörhead and "Motörhead" by the Ramones.

I usually kind of like the smell of skunks (at least from a distance) but this year I've had enough of those fuckers. I've also come dangerously close to stepping on one when leaving the house early in the morning a few times lately and I really don't need that.

Uh… we're taking the wee one to see the Wiggles later this month and when I saw the new Wiggle I started actually looking forward to it.

@avclub-011d0b4fe6835bb3d37ef4e0ea713de6:disqus Yeah, that's about as involved as I ever get in setting up friends – I'll arrange to put the two of you in a room together but after that it's up to you.

I've pimped this guy's column before, but I present to you Steve Murray's Extremely Bad Advice:

My two-and-a-half year old is already on her third dollar store whoopee cushion she loves thems so much (the first one was the olde timey kind that I had to keep blowing up for her – since then we've switched to self-inflating which works a lot better but still won't stand up to her repeatedly making all of her…

I thought it was for checking which of your ex-girlfriends were fat now?