My best guess: it's kinda funny for someone who boasts about constantly being on top of his game to endorse a famously #2, also-ran product.  It's one thing to struggle up from nothing as a rapper.  It's another thing to partner with a struggling brand desperately trying to capture more market share. Once you sell…

I had totally forgotten about them.  They seem a lot better now than I remember.  Context matters with these things.  If you were a college student in the late 1990s, the most vocal fans of Cibo Matto were creepy straight white dudes who didn't shower and had no pop cultural tastes that weren't grounded in a sexual…

Even Davy Don couldn't save this mess.

I've never seen this movie.  But I will observe that this is a great example of a flop whose title was no help at all to its box office returns.  "Osmosis Jones" gives no idea of what the movie is about, or what genre the movie is, or who the intended audience is, or anything.

I entirely agree, Vedder imitations resulted in the lead singers of most bands from the mid-late 1990s singing as if they were taking an impossibly difficult shit.

Can I upvote this ten million times?

I seriously don't give a shit about half of these comments.  I pay to see Cracker or Camper Van Beethoven whenever they are in my area, and they are great.  Go to one of their shows and you will understand.  Please don't spill your beer on me.  But if you do, we will probably end up friends anyway, because those are…

Ah yes, Grey's Anatomy.  I used to live in a cramped apartment where my girlfriend had to watch TV in the same room that I did most of my work from home in.

"… the nuggets of background on future famous people who were in The Roots’ orbit. (Quest went to his senior prom with Amel Larrieux of Groove Theory.)"

Zulkey said it.  You can't miss with George Harrison.  (My choice: "Here Comes The Sun")

"Out With Gout '88".

Am I the only one who couldn't tell any of the white dudes under 30 in this show apart?

As an antidote, I wholeheartedly recommend "I am over 25, but you can trust me" as interpreted by Sammy Davis Jr.  It was a much-needed "Heal the World" for those troubled times.

See, e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

I dunno about a job in NYC, but he could probably get a fairly steady "I Will Crudely Photoshop Your Old-Ass Uncle Into A Photo Of Beyonce" novelty birthday gift business going.  "I Will Photoshop You Into The Girly Calendar Your Plumbing Business Already Distributes."  Something like that.  Wouldn't even have to…

Nice to see that M. Ward is sticking with the same facial expression, "slightly to the side" photo angle.  It works so well for him!

For me the ad successfully wrapped around from "revolting" to "funny" somewhere around the closeups of the goat with the voiceover "keep your mouth shut, keep your mouth shut."  I'm not saying it wasn't awful—- but it made me laugh.  Obviously they were trying to cross every possible line while staying within the…

Nice (perhaps unwittingly) repurposed Justin Bieber joke!  See, e.g., Kumail Nanjiani on the Jeselnik Offensive: http://www.youtube.com/watc…

That's what you get for not hailing to the chimp!

Slightly off topic, but do any historians out there know how old the phrase "you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here" is?  Google booking only gets me back to the mid 20th century, which is maybe about right(?)  Was it independently invented by bartenders everywhere, or was there some particular usage of it…