I think you're right, but I have to admit that the song from the Blue Oyster Bar still cracks me up.

I think you're right, but I have to admit that the song from the Blue Oyster Bar still cracks me up.

I'm slightly perplexed by how people seem to have a problem with everyone having a camera in Chronicle. Have you spent much time around people, lately? I was at a concert the other night where practically every other attendee was watching the performance through the smartphone with which they were shooting photos and…

I'm slightly perplexed by how people seem to have a problem with everyone having a camera in Chronicle. Have you spent much time around people, lately? I was at a concert the other night where practically every other attendee was watching the performance through the smartphone with which they were shooting photos and…

Not to mention the fact that the technique leads to the most viscerally-shot flying scenes of ALL TIME. Jeers to the writer of that particular part of the article. Jeers, I say!

Not to mention the fact that the technique leads to the most viscerally-shot flying scenes of ALL TIME. Jeers to the writer of that particular part of the article. Jeers, I say!

Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others!

Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others!

That's my favorite part of this whole saga. It's, like, "America! Freedom! Don't tread on me! Oh, wait, you have millions of investment dollars? Well, then, sieg heil, comrade."

That's my favorite part of this whole saga. It's, like, "America! Freedom! Don't tread on me! Oh, wait, you have millions of investment dollars? Well, then, sieg heil, comrade."

Grammar alert: "Everyday" is an adjective. The opening text should read, "Every day, we go about our lives."

Grammar alert: "Everyday" is an adjective. The opening text should read, "Every day, we go about our lives."

I haven't gone through all the comments, but if anyone's said Disney's The Black Hole, I second that emotion. I loved that movie so much as a kid, had the toys and the storybook and everything…and then I rented it during one of my early Netflix nostalgia binges, and was actually stunned to discover (not having seen it…

I haven't gone through all the comments, but if anyone's said Disney's The Black Hole, I second that emotion. I loved that movie so much as a kid, had the toys and the storybook and everything…and then I rented it during one of my early Netflix nostalgia binges, and was actually stunned to discover (not having seen it…

I don't want to be all, "I appreciate movies on a deeper level than you," but I have never understood why everybody slams (500) Days of Summer as being guilty of propagating the MPDG thing. If anything, I thought the whole point was that JGL's character is only able to grow once he gives up looking for a MPDG and…

I don't want to be all, "I appreciate movies on a deeper level than you," but I have never understood why everybody slams (500) Days of Summer as being guilty of propagating the MPDG thing. If anything, I thought the whole point was that JGL's character is only able to grow once he gives up looking for a MPDG and…

Dos cosas de Jonathan
My gateway to Jonathan Richman was one song: "True Love Is Not Nice," from 1998's I'm So Confused (and, yes, There's Something About Mary, although I heard the song before I saw the film). Never had I encountered such a succinct, empathetic and devastating song about the wild, destructive thing…