Miley's cover isn't bad, it just feels unnecessary, because Dylan's delivery and voice are fantastic on that song. i don't think it can be improved on. (And I'm not someone who thinks that of all his songs.)

oh c'mon, it's a goldmine.  where else will you find material like this:

my favorite version of this joke, from the wonderful actionjokes.com:

Collier is fantastic, the story itself is so compact and grim, I don't know if I'd ever want to see it fleshed out. Pick up Fancies and Goodnights, it's great bus reading.

ACTING THE GOAT?

Day of the Daleks is pretty classic, especially given that they only had like 3 Daleks to work with, so they pretty much made the Daleks a minor point of the overall plot.

It wasn't bad or anything, just unremarkable.

there's another cool little detail, which is that the KGB once raided his house and took his diaries, eventually giving them back to him.  He immediately burnt them.  60 years later, it turned out that the KGB had made copies of everything they took from him, and his diaries were published.

Apparently the Pogo collections will be coming out twice a year.  I'm more excited about the upcoming releases, since Fantagraphics already published most of this material in those thin little books that they gave up on a while back.

The world needed a new Asher Roth.

The Lifting is fantastic but from what I remember nothing else on there matches up.

i hate posts like this usually, but c'mon, fuck this guy, review the new mekons, they're much better people and musicians.

Balloon Man is a very lightweight song otherwise, but man, "It rained like a slow divorce" is a fantastic line.

There's a version of Respect called Spectre, which is prefaced by interview segments with him discussing all the songs.  His rambling introduction to The Yip! Song is a highlight - "yes, we did have a small dog, it would yip at us, and we would yip back at it, but that's not really what the song's about, it's about…

The Good Soldier.  The most obviously immoral people are dead, the only innocent in the story is insane, and the sympathetic-yet-actually-evil woman ends up with everything she wants.  Plus the hapless narrator becomes hilariously bitter by the end.

It's so nice
to wake up in the morning
      All alone
and not have to tell somebody
      you love them
When you don't love them
      any more

That song got played all the time on the Current, the Minneapolis top 40 of indie station, but I never heard it elsewhere.

Awesome.  Pogo will always be my favorite - I don't really care if it's dated by topical references, the world and the characters he built are amazing.  The plot in which Albert is put on trial for eating a puppy has a couple of strips that just blow me away, in the way that they reveal levels of honesty and…

The Girl Who was Death (the spy runaround filler episode is comedy gold - YOU HAVE JUST BEEN POISONED. And McGoohan's in it.  The one without him is (I think) Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling, where his mind is in another guy's body.  That one's kinda boring, though it's amusing that they could only show No. 6 kissing…

She did have that dancing sequence, which still didn't really make up for the rest of it.  The Ring might be worse.