DTO - the first thing I thought as well was, "Holy shit, he's as old as my father!" The Big Man is (was) still getting it done on stage with arguably one of America's greatest iconic rock bands of all time; my father still mows his own lawn.

That's so spot-on, that I can just hear my students repeating that exchange over and over and over and over in class Monday morning …

Obligatory Simpsons complaint …
As I've posted many times before on these here boards, I've always felt that the way to :save" The Simpsons would have been to come back one season with the show jumped ahead five years or so. Put Bart and Lisa in Springfield High, bump Homer up a notch at work, maybe send Marge to…

Saw RFK Jr. last night on Colbert … he certainly seems to lack the ol' Kennedy charisma.

Y'know … he was actually pretty good in NYPD Blue …

I'm badly paraphrasing a great quotation I heard about Williams: Ted Williams did three things better than any other man alive: hit a baseball, cast a rod, and fly a fighter jet. He probably banged a bunch of broads, too …

I am loving the Orioles idea. The focus of the season could be an undercover task focus whose job it is to bust Baltimore "fans" who sell all of their season tickets to Yankee and Red Sox fans.

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"Society" is pretty great, too. You know what, that whole soundtrack is a pretty good listen.

Hit me …
I wonder if he asked his son to hit him as hard as he could …

Tough to sympathize …
Hearing that Amazon is "losing" money is sort of akin to news of a gas/oil company having a "down" quarter.

"Their," not "there" …

True … but I did find the opening credit sequence, where Wolverine and his brother literally fight there way through various American wars, intriguing. Would a movie based on that work, or would it just be so repetitive?

Agreed with the Larry the Cable guy comment - if taken as a historical document, albeit one that requires other corroboration, then fine.

There's just as many black people as there are white people in Manhatten and Celebrity and parts of Zelig and … what now? It was filmed that way? Well, now I don't know what to think …

I'm at a loss as to who is watching this, as well. I'm in my mid-30s, and consider myself firmly in the ""I like to think that the story of my generation can be told exclusively through Simpsons quotes and Onion headlines." - Nathan Rabin" camp, but the Simpsons show I obsess over ended over a decade ago. I teach high…

I'm loving this chain … is it me, or does it seem that smokers, especially guys in their early to mid 30s, talk an awful lot about their smoking? My friends and I have been "trying" to quit for years, but we seem to do more talking about it than we ever do actually stopping. Goddam, why does this habit have to be so…

I'm always amazed at how much athletes smoked back in the day. I remember that scene in 61 where Roger Maris remarks that he's up to something like 4 packs of Camels a day. How the hell do you even find the time to smoke that much, much less fit in a 9 inning baseball game? And DiMaggio supposedly smoked a Camel each…

Thank you for beating me to "Ben Affleck's not a bad actor" post. However, the caveat I'd make is that he has wisely moved into supporting roles or ensemble pieces of late, which I think suit him very well. I thought he was perfectly cast in Hollywoodland; I thought he was great in the otherwise terrible Extract; and…

Shit … I hope Pyro, or even Gyro, don't find out about that …