MMMMMBop over here.

EDIT: Dumb question was answered in story. Danke. I know TMBG was trying to get a New Order sound with "Man, It's So Loud In Here."

He seemed to be around way too long and designed to appeal to an audience younger than Ducktales' target. He was the show's Elmo, basically.

Yeah — old guys becoming pandas. That's the future.

I . . . Don't . . . Do . . . Sparring . . .

"An enemy deadlier than any he faced in the ring."

Rocky vs. Flatland

(Pulls out Chuck Wepner)

Gizmo Duck I could live with; Bubba Duck is a horribly failed Disney experiment in merchandising kill it kill it with fire.

I'm the goddamned Darkwing Duck.

Ducks are nature's assholes.

It's definitely worth it. Grant's style is so clear and direct that it's like he's a proto-Hemingway, and the book is blessedly free of Victorianisms. Plus it's a great (albeit incomplete) story.

My nuts?

I couldn't get very far past the Madeline. That book is a Cookie Monster.

"Help me, Pedantic Man! Someone is misusing the phrase 'begging the question!'" — actual cry for help I would make

I'M GONNA GET YOU FOR THIS, INFLUENZA

Yes! Because only adults can grasp sabermetrics!

I still love your Webster posts.

I agree, and yet there's no incentive to pay if you've got people who want to do it for free. Hell, even this person said it was an experience to be repeated.

Same thing with journalism: So many people want to break into it that management can treat employees like crap. Heard many stories of bright-eyed men and women walking into ESPN in Bristol and realizing they're going to leave their youth on an editing room floor.