Genesis under Phil Collins: The whitest Funk ever produced?

I used to read the Onion all the time—when I was a bookseller it was practically a store ritual. And then as a teacher I used to use articles from it in my AP class to teach irony—but the Permanent Record feature made me a semi-regular AVC reader, and then the Vonnegut Inventory made me a commentor. Now I don't know…

yeah but
They still insist on calling it "the Onion".

"a couple Barnes & Barnes music videos"

Sayles and Soderbergh
I always liked the parts of 'Crossing Jordan' that dealt with his character more than the rest of the show—which was kind of pat and corny as I recall.

Ah, the lovely portmanteau…

To add insult to irony, Jorge, I like that idea of a "Cabinet of Notions" so much that I'm going to steal it.

…and it's a feeling I will never forget, even if I never see him again—So Casey, would you please play 'Pull up to the Bumper' for Father McBride?

I devised my own Choose Your Own Adventure story, which involved laying sheets of notebook paper all over the floor to keep track of where each narrative thread was leading. It was a lot of work and a lot of fun, but since I hated getting to the various endings of the books when I would read them, I remember trying…

Do tell—mine moved just a tad further into the sixties into a kind of surfer/hot rodder millieu. And instead of a right and wrong side of the tracks angle it had an interracial romance—Rydell High having been recently integrated—which meant that the songs could all be Motown/Girl Group/Surf music influenced. You…

And the punchline is that there really was such a band and he really showed you, right?

That seems like a lot of work for relatively lttle payoff.

Hey, Saving you all some time:

The only Benny Hill sign gag I remember involved a sign whose letters spelled "JOHN THE RAPIST" which was then corrected to "JOHN THERAPIST". So that's what I thought of.

One of those crossover dealies:

The only thing worse than a stupid name is one too clever by half. You never want the gimmick that is your name to overshadow your music—unless you're a Ska band.

Tejanosaurus Rex & Barrio Speedwagon
These are quite nice, I think.

I guess "give up" is not the right word—"supress" is more accurate. I still have my own ridiculously huge record collection, but when I was married I rarely got to play with it.

Man—at least you got to play. I was way into the game, and had a bunch of friends who were too, but the logistics of getting everybody together for an extended period of time we could never work out, so we mostly just read the books.

Where does that focused list-making go?