I don't think you need to forgive Pete for Gudrun or forget his privaleged narcissism to think that he really believes he's a standup guy, or that he and Trudy have the healthiest marriage on the show. Their scenes together have always had a comfortable, informal chemistry that you don't find anywhere else in…

"hopefully he has real feelings for her too"

I don't think Lane is any more sincere about his "chocolate bunny" than Kinsey was about Sheila. She's as emblematic of America and freedom from the constraints of Britain and his father as a Texas T-bone belt buckle—which it looks like he can give up at the drop of a cane. The problem is that the show seems to have…

Shia LaBeouf
Does that come with a salad?

He said "fuck"
Whenever I hear a young poet who has discovered the power of his or her own vulgarity I am tempted to tell them "Fuck's been liberated"—find some other way to shock.

He said "fuck"
Whenever I hear a young poet who has discovered the power of his or her own vulgarity I am tempted to tell them "Fuck's been liberated"—find some other way to shock.

icu81mi—yes it was.

Something remotely Steampunk in the wild: 'League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'.

I think I've seen ads for that PBS series—specifically an episode about late night TV. It's the kind of thing I'd watch and really like if I remembered but then I don't. A lot of PBS is like that these days.

So I'm saying I like the first one better, basically
I'm not a reader of Fantasy fiction, so I've never read the books and can't weigh in on them, but I am happy to talk about how the films work (or don't). I've said this before, but despite when it was made, I think of 'Conan the Barbarian' as one of the last…

Along those lines from the same label is a disc called 'Return of the B-Boy' which is a set of Turntablist and Electrofunk tunes with extended drum breaks specifically for break dancing. Though not an official part of that series, it's still my favorite.

As a former bookseller who worked at a prominent independent for years I can attest that we were never really in competition with Amazon the way Borders and Barnes & Nobles were. The main difference, which is kind of what Sean is talking about, is that we sold this whole bookstore experience—the comfy chairs, the…

"Daddy, why is everyone on 'The Brady Bunch' always wearing stripes?"

I'm only half joking when I say go back and check out the production on that Kriss Kross album for a sense of what's been lost. It was and is mediocre pop rap for the most part, but in places the music is really put together well.

I tend to agree about live versions, calvinist, and that's why I've never been a huge fan of live records. It seems as though the studio version should be the best you can do given the resources of a studio, and that "live" music is best appreciated as part of the audience that adds that unquantifiable (and often…

"which AVC seems to have a lot of antipathy for"

DING DONG
The witch is dead.

Okay—Do you remember Wow, the younger kid's version from the same publisher which you then graduated to Dynamite from? Or Hot Dog? I pass a Scholastic truck on the beltway almost everyday—but as much as I loved the book order form, and the strip with your order on it in an evelope alongside exact change—I preferred…

I remember a music teacher in 7th grade talking about vocal ranges and how the males would eventually have to rely on falsetto for high notes, and then she went around the room with all the boys openly assessing in front of everone whose voice had or had not changed yet. She may as well have publicized a count of our…

You're right Cajun—as I reconsider it, 'The Grey Album' is really a remix album that uses another album as its primary sample bank. I just cited it as a mashup because others had, but I believe the reading of its subtext about "no art being sacred" still fits.