Here's something I noticed: Mack Bolan carried two guns most of the time, an Automag and a Beretta 93-r. Mickey Knox does too at one point in Natural Born Killers. Coincidence, or was Oliver Stone a fan?

I've got another: the end of King Kong. "It was beauty that killed the beast."

"Every time you go away, you take a piece of meat with you…"
Paul Young, I think.

Abita Beer used to sponser an open mike blues jam at the Mid-City Lanes Rock'N'Bowl in New Orleans (this is pre-Katrina, I don't know if they still do or not). There was always a professional act at the end of the night to finish up. One particular night there were a lot of contestants, so the show ender-a Louisiana…

I pretty much support my local Friends of the Library store. I cant pass up even stuff I know I'll probably never read if the price is right. Will I ever need a 1920's era reference guide for shipboard surgeons? Maybe not, but you're a better man than I if you can pass that up for a dollar.
Right now there a set of…

Well, he didn't get blown apart, he got part of his head blown off by a mortar shell. (Why do I remember this?). The wikipedia entries on Casca and Barry sadler are pretty interesting, actually. I didn't know most of the series was ghost written.
One of the worst of the type: Jerry Ahern series. He wrote a fer…

Thirded(?) on McGee and MacDonald-light years above the "mens adventure" ilk. My favorite Pelecanos so far(of three): King Suckerman

Why I've never really picked up the smoking habit: I had an aunt with a voice like a rock crusher. When I was about five or so, I asked her why her voice was like that. She said smoking-she smoked at least a pack of Salems a day. Best anti-smoking message ever.
Of course years later I got the real story: an abortive…

Aha; I was thinking Isis=mother of Horus, not Hawkgirl, defender of St. Roch, LA.

@I am the Master: Was JMS's Spiderman that bad? I actually liked Rising Stars.
Man Of Steel… thats the one about how Superman has to be a virgin, right? I remember John Byrne talking about that in an interview once.
Also, I agree with everything with Admiral Neck has said.

" 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' Grandpa said no. But I served in a company of heroes." -Band of Brothers Gets me every time.
I'm actually finding this thread pretty cathartic.

I have never seen a more wretched hive of scum and villany than this thread.
But then I've never been to PW's apartment.

The worst superhero interpretation ever: I once found someone's thesis in a book of essays avering that Spiderman was merely Anansi in a new form (I guess cause they're both spiders?) and like Anansi, Spiderman was just a selfish, amoral trickster; any good he did was only incidental.
I could only conclude that the…

NOBODY'S name checking Old Yeller on their crying list? Or Bambi, when his mom was shot (which this movie referenced, by the way)? Your hearts must be made of stone.

Shouldn't she be Hawk Mother, JVS?

The Incredibles
A right wing screed? I didn't get that at all. I just thought it was the best Fantastic Four movie never made.
I just saw this movie a few weeks ago-thanks to this column, in fact-and now I totally get the hype. It's fabulous! Much better than most latter day Disney stuff, and it doesn't pander to the…

Doubt, dammit!

Your first fail ever? I highly dought it. You know what you have to do now.

Buck up, Joiseyites. At least ya'll got your own devil. And Entenmann's.

What about that guy at the end, Jesse? He looks like he just woke up in the alley out back, and he wouldn't touch the stuff.