Topher Grace, in about 20 years.

Am I the only one who wants to see him and Calvin Trillin go on a food-oriented road trip?  Come on, Travel Channel.  Make it happen.

One thing hit me a few years ago regarding the Velveteen Rabbit.  Knowing what we know now about diseases, was it really necessary to burn the toys?  Would it not have been enough to give them a good washing, or just leave them out in the sun for a few days?

I'm not feeling the new album.  Maybe it will grow on me, I don't know.  I have liked some of his 2000s stuff a lot.

The funniest takedown on the site (even though it is rather obvious, artificial, and mean-spirited) remains Brent DiCrescenzo's review of Tool's "Lateralus", from 2001.  So there is definitely a history, almost even a storied tradition, of this kind of thing.

John Huston's "Under the Volcano" is perhaps my favorite.  Also "Fat City."  (Maybe the books those are based on, too—- I haven't read them and don't know if the endings are at all similar.)

Agreed.  Although, it's a little morally compromised to refer to the expected, almost obligatory end of a noirish heist movie as an "unhappy ending."  But if it ever were appropriate, it's appropriate for a Kubrick movie.

Maybe I'm not grown up yet, but the lyrics of that Dan Fogelberg song (totally new to me, by the way) are laugh-out-loud funny.  At least, the first third or so—- the frozen foods… having her purchases totalled up at the checkout stand.  It's like R Kelly but white and 80s.  The song's lyrics get better (if somewhat…

*nasal whine* Did I do that?

Amen.  So sick of this twist.  Figured it out in the first five minutes of both "Happy Feet" and "Sex and the City 2".  Come on, guys.  Not again.

I could only get through a few chapters of this book.  It was worse than "Everything is Illuminated", which I finished only because someone I respected said I had to.  I won't say that everyone who likes Foer's fiction is wrong.  But it seems clear to me that the fact that both of his first two novels have been…

Like MCS says, it's Robert Smith's high school book report on "The Stranger."  He even worked the title into it.

I'd like to see an antiques roadshow dating/seduction game patterned after the classic Big Train sketch.

I'm all about Golden Grahams.

Just two things to say on this.

I saw a lot of this during a period of involuntary caring-for-a-sick-relative and liked it, partly for stuff getting shot up in slow motion but mainly for the personalities that begin to sink in over the episodes (watching just one or two you can't really tell the shooters apart).  In their own way these people have…

Black men: #2 only to women of any color in "most crudely caricatured in video games."  Just be thankful he isn't *dealing* in that game.

In retrospect, it's kind of funny how long it took gaming to replicate the experience of being a meth addict.

Clem Snide?  Eef Barzelay?  Is anyone going to make fun of these names?

Yeah, well, go to any site that aggregates freelancers for any kind of work and see what they charge. $200/song is still at least a Western world rate.  There is probably some guy in Bangladesh doing it for $2/song (and his are better, except for the lyrics).