I saw a trailer for "The Gambler" with Mark Wahlberg this weekend, and it seems to deliberately try to create the false impression that Martin Scorsese made it.

Agreed. I've got the first season on disc and have introduced a few people to it.

My wife plays the viola and does a lot of gigs around the area (weddings, receptions, stage musical orchestras, etc.) and December is a big month for the freelance orchestral musician. Much like Ricky Bobby, her favorite Jesus is the baby Jesus, otherwise known as "Christ the Ka-ching".

Sadly unable to find the Poet T Posse's "Fuck Christmas" online, but it's also worth seeking out.

I'm hoping that description of tonight's Black-ish episode (with the obvious Milford Academy setup) is a suggestion that the show become the black Arrested Development, because I would totally support that development. Except that Black-ish is pretty much the opposite of Arrested Development in several ways. Actually,…

Put another way, June 10th, 2016 is 13,146 days after June 13th, 1980, the day that Friday the 13th takes place. See, it makes sense now.

June 10th is merely 3 days before June 13th, which was the day (in 1980) that Friday the 13th takes place (and my 9th birthday.) Spooky!

https://www.youtube.com/wat…

I first saw Katie Cassidy on Harper's Island, where she was a stone cold fox. Recently, she's seemed less effortlessly gorgeous than she did back then. I don't know what the difference is, and I'm not saying she isn't attractive now, but KC (2009) > KC (2014).

Who's the greatest baseball player of all time?

"The ants of old weren't half as bold
and big and fierce as me!"

He should do "One Night Love Affair," because the best Bryan Adams song is obviously the one that was in Real Genius.

At first, I thought this was going to be about the first keyboardist for Yes. How depressing is it that keyboardist Kaye isn't famous enough to need distinguishing from a guy who's made, like, three-ish movies in the last 15 years?

Nothing at all wrong with not knowing the MIB song, but you should know Patrice Rushen's source song, "Forget Me Nots".

I turned 9 on Friday, June 13th, 1980, and the thing I wanted most in the world was to see Friday the 13th, which had opened a few weeks before. I begged my father to take me and he finally relented and we saw it on my birthday. Imagine my delight when the date the events took place were established to be that very…

and I'm usually disappointed.

I admit, I scrolled down this article looking for Udo Kier.

I loved this show as a kid, and the casting of Maxwell (or whatever equivalent they end up with) is the crucial element. I was 10-12 when the show aired, but even at that age I needed his comically skeptical take on the premise in order to accept it.

Eh, I'll probably see it. When I saw the title on some list of upcoming movies and heard it was Sci-Fi, I partly hoped it would be an adaptation of Futurological Congress and partly hoped it would not be, sounds like I got both wishes.

#waronwhites