I'll admit that 'Family Guy' has slipped from being subtle commentary on racist attitudes by pointing them out to merely parroting them for their shock value. But why anyone would be offended or even surprised at this point is beyond me. It's a terribly bourgeois position to be a White male making racist jokes and…

I'm not offended—Buddhists don't generally take offence at mockery (What is the Buddha nature? A shit stick!). My point was just that Lisa flirting with Wicca is inconsistant with her character as both a rationalist and a Buddhist and that her discovering the rational explanation for the so-called spells actually…

I'll wait for AT-ST—nothing stirs up terror in the enemy like an assault machine that walks like a chicken.

I vote for Link Wrays' 'The Rumble':

Most underrated Dutch group? Shocking Blue.

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"Where am I supposed to go from there?"

The "humanity" of Brian has always been a concern of the show, but it has been especially pronounced this season—I'm thinking of the dimension traveling episode especially, but also how the Quagmire confrontation from last week rendered his strident self-righteousness utterly devastated and vulnerable. After last week…

"Boom Potatoes"
I tend to watch the the first part of thr Sunday lineup while doing other things and then settle in to 'Family Guy'—but there were a lot of great lines on the Simpsons last night, even if my sense of it was that it was yet another Lisa tries to be cool plot. And for what it's worth, Lisa's Buddhism has…

An Argument for iTunes
'Can You Dig It? The Music And Politics Of Black Action Films 1968-75'—

That bit where he compared Ja Rule to Cookie Monster is one hell of a classic and appropriate dis—but is it enough to build a career on?

Yeah—the massive accent.

Sho Kosugi
Aw Yeah—I was all set to suggest that no real ninja movie could exist without input from Sho Kosugi, and there he is. So, okay, any Stephen K. Hayes? Because, growing up outside of Dayton with an enduring obsession with medieval Japan, I couldn't help but be aware that there was a Ninja school in nearby…

'The Abstract' is a good album, but if you've never heard it it may not be exactly what you expect.

"break character?"

Mom always said "Don't play ham in the house".

I'll admit to a small crush on Rachael Ray for a time. But then I found Nigella Lawson—It's a combination of confidence and competence (and the accent):

I see. "Throwing a ham"

Oddly enough, I read it that way at first (as above) but rethought it since the only version of 'Paid in Full' I recognize is the Coldcut 'Seven Minutes of Madness" remix.

Sometimes a gimmick is just a gimmick and sometimes a gimmick is a brilliant gimmick.