Ouch.

Big Boi's was sadly mediocre.  I'd take Killer Mike #1, Kendrick #2, El-P #3.

Without El-P this album will be a complete disappointment.  It's pretty much a guarantee.  He MADE that record and his style is inimitable.

I don't think I ever put much thought into it at all until just now, actually.  I remember seeing it in the theater and thinking, "Really, Gruber has a brother?  That's convenient…"  It struck me as phony.  The first movie is of course ridiculously plotted, but also establishes the kind of story it's telling and then…

Doesn't that strike you as even weirder, sloppier plotting though?  He's Gruber's brother, he has a legit motive for going after this guy, but that turns out to be subterfuge - of course, it's subterfuge that gets McClane directly and personally involved, and turns out to be his undoing; and it also leaves the…

That aspect of WAV always struck me as phony though.  Inventing a vengeance-obsessed sibling is cheap dramatic stakes, and it feels incredibly grafted on, probably because it WAS grafted on (to the script that was marginally adjusted when they decided to make a Die Hard movie out of it).

What kind of weird accent have you got?

That's the best line from the later, bad years.  Well, maybe tied with "Stupid, sexy Flanders!"

It's "oo."  As in, "oo oo, ah ah."

The later seasons aren't bad actually.  There are a few episodes that get a bit too wacky, and they played fast and loose with some established continuity, but the basic fundamentals of the show never really changed.  Actually I think it's one of the most consistent shows over that many seasons; most other…

I can name a thousand, and I don't even like "Jack and Diane."

"going to be"?

And without really even aiming.

On a related note, we have a few cats at my house, and every time I get home they greet me at the door.  For a while I was in the habit of saying, "How you cats doin'?" as I crossed the threshold.  I thought it was funny.  The cats and my wife were less impressed.

Only old jazzbos hanging around after their set use that term today.  So, it's Eric Roberts and about nine other people.  I love it.

So, THIS is the time of day I gotta be up to post first on these articles.  Interesting.

He inspired maybe the most memorable rap verse this side of the one starting with "I like big butts":

No total number of hits would surprise me, except "less than fifty million."

OK guys, it's time we all stopped saying "inside baseball."  We're beating it into the Uncanny Valley's ground, and it's too on the nose, to the point that there's no there there.

I watched the pilot, really disliked it.  It seemed like it was going to be very formulaic and not especially smart (more like the kind of show that pretends it's smart without actually being smart at all).  It seemed like a misuse and a waste of Emerson, who was amazing on "Lost."  And I really disliked both Caviezel…