Bowery Ballroom in September. Yeahhhhh booiiiiiii.

"Phone Sex" was the first Superchunk song I heard, and I really loved it…but it was interesting diving into the rest of their catalogue and discovering it sounded nothing like that song. Fortunately, I dug it all, anyway.

OK, so I am not a fan of fantasy series that go on for the sake of going on. I read the first three Black Company books and LOVED them, but the story seemed to have reached a neat, trilogy-concluding end, and I was satisfied with that. I've seen that there are a bunch more Black Company-based novels out there, but…

Agreed. Before I read the books, someone told me that they got progressively worse, but I actually enjoyed Mockingjay the most.

There are parts of the book I liked very much, but I also think the ratio of descriptions of food to actual plot movement in terms of word count is skewed pretty heavily toward the former. It actually went beyond annoying and into hilarious, for me, after a certain point.

When I created my profile on this site, I wanted so badly to use the name "Gumbercules" in tribute to the Futurama joke that made me laugh for, literally, about 5 straight minutes. Alas, one of you clever bastards had taken it, first. Whoever you are, I salute you.

Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man. A crazy, far-future police procedural with telepathy. One of the better, tighter sci-fi novels I've read. This needs to happen.

How they picked this over Sharkna-dos, I'll never understand. Thinks of the appeal to the Spanish-speaking market!

Oh, man, I once got electrocuted by a mic at CBGB, so badly that the lights flickered. This movie really speaks to me.

I just ate a bagel. Fuck both of you guys.

You win the Internet today.

Maybe, by the time this movie rolls around, she'll have actually learned to throw a convincing punch!

The box office was helped by the addition of China-only scenes featuring a new character: Marshall Stacker Pentecost's superior officer, General Tso.

I want to make sweet, sweet robot love to this comment for summarizing everything I feel about this movie.

And I'll stand up for Presto. The title track is my jam, and I'm not even a performing magician.

Apple juice! For half price!

"it's just obnoxious when characters randomly break into song and sing dialogue."

I have never seen an episode of Breaking Bad, but this poem is one of my all-time favorites…so, you know, I'll take it.

Short answer: No.

I went through a marathon viewing of TNG last year on Netflix Instant, and it really was striking how closely the appearance of Riker's beard coincided with a decided uptick in the quality of the show, as a whole. I'm not saying the beard *caused* said improvement…but I can't really prove that it didn't, either.