I'm with Jesse. John Linnell could release an album of him rubbing his stubble on a microphone, and I'd have my $9.99 ready.

It's going to turn out that Lee has a stack of manuscripts ready for publication, and all of them will be set in the Dungeons & Dragons universe.

It's way down on their list of accomplishments, but this nation owes the Beach Boys for doing something to Reagan's Secretary of the Interior to make them seem to be a biker gang bringing Altamont to Washington in 1983. James Watt was a corrupt racist, and his singular view of the Beach Boys began his much-needed…

Yes it would!

"Kokomo" is "Smile" as interpreted by Mike Love.

I was screaming at the AV Club to put Better Off Ted in its review rotation after "Racial Sensitivity" aired. Maybe the best sitcom episode of that decade.

Sometimes when I am telling the story of Lena Dunham, it seems hard to separate it from the story of myself. But unlike her, I’m never quite sure what I have to show for myself—and I am painfully aware of my own hustle, while hers remains deliberately opaque. As much as I want to believe, as she writes in her book,…

"A lot of people don't like you, Mitchell. In fact, I don't care for you much myself. Why is that?"

Care Bears: Thousand-Yard Stare

Random Wonder Years memory: Fred Savage is researching his ancestry.

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"Put it all into Rovio! I've got a good feeling about them!"

"I love Brian Piccolo. And tonight—" (football hits Gayle Sayers in the groin) "oh, my groin!"

Aw, man. That's a bummer. She's in my Top 10 of all-time SNL actors. Apart from 30 Rock, she seemed to have disappeared — a goddamn crime. She should have had a huge career.

The Colonial Gang, aka The Writers Just Discovered A Handful of Straw Men

That's an interesting hypothesis, but then, the series pulsates with such contempt for reporters in particular (and broadly, with anyone who questions the leadership) that I think the writers just assumed these people were journalists prior to shit blowing up.

17 Sizzling Ways To Snuff Out That Spark of Life

Sexy Action At A Distance!

I may have to Think Twice about this.

I suspect Hazlitt's book, without sex, is sexier.