"onion-flavored-air"

There are perennials, and those that seem to gain or fall in favor from year to year—but in the interest of populating an iPod playlist with songs that will grate the least and warm the most during meals or while opening gifts, I'm going to suggest the following:

But the stories are silent about Homosexuality as we understand it. What I mean by "fidelity to Doyle" is that what Doyle intended is only part of the issue, and what we today see as subtext may be more or different than what was intended, and so it is possible to imagine the Holmes character as written living…

I have been entirely consistent as far as what "subtext" means and have attempted to differentiate it from "authorial intent" which is a totally different issue. I have only said the same thing in different ways and I hold to what I have said. Spock and Kirk are not part of my argument. Neither are Batman and Robin…

I'm going to say this again more simply—I don't think the question "needs" to be addressed in every version of the Holmes story, but I note that it consistently is, and always enthusiastically in the negative, when there is no more evidence in Doyle's texts against than there is for. I'm only suggesting that such a…

Perhaps, if all you care about is fidelity to Doyle, which clearly is not the case here.

That's a good point—although I would caution that Newt's recent "success" at galvanizing the GOP is really only Mitt's failure to do the same. Perhaps this too shall pass, and, given enough rope, as they work their way down the list of alternatives to bottom, conservatives will even bring back Dan Quayle.

Missed it by six minutes—See below. But I'm sure you'll agree that there is a difference between developing a subtext that is consistent with what is established for a character and shit desperate people make up (see also: Ernie and Bert).

And my nomination for least appealing slang term for any part of a woman's body is "can". If it's anything like a real can, how sweet is it?

And perhaps more importantly, who said anything about Christina Ricci's career being on an upswing? Is 'Pan Am' a hit or something?

The point of 'Punch Drunk Love' as I understand it, is that it imagines a typically broad Adam Sandler angry man-child character trying to negotiate life in a more or less real world. As such, I kind of think the joke was on him and only underscores how dismal is the work he's done apart from it (he said, breathing…

Whatever. Palin is now officially a footnote to history—if she ever had a desire to run for any office again (which I doubt—she's clearly not interested in either accountability or responsibility or she'd have finished her term as governor) this year was her last shot at relevance.

Careful there, I think 'All the President's Men and a Baby' may have just been greenlit.

"It's not homophobic or anti-gay that Holmes and Watson aren't lovers"

I doubt I'm the first to say this, but 'The Smurfs' movie was wrongheaded in the same way that the Cars movies have been, at the level of character design. Anyone who owned smurfs or watched the cartoon (or even read the Belgian comic) will tell you that the CGi versions are THE WRONG SHADE OF BLUE. It may seem like a…

'Sherlock Holme's was one of the 2009’s most pleasant surprises? Says who? Admittedly, I'm a huge fan of Jeremy Brett's characterization, and a believer that the Holmes found in the original books doesn't need any updating, least of all the unnecessary "butching" that Guy Ritchie put him through (in what I suppose can…

1. LECHERY! How foxy was Nancy Allen in the 70's? (Answer: Rather Foxy. She was—to use outdated slang from the Swing era that I'm trying to revive—"airtight")

They sold but they weren't on the "official" playlist.

The mohawk that Deniro wore in 'Taxi Driver' (unspiked) was a callback to Travis' experience as a Vietnam Vet (where special forces soldiers supposedly wore them before going out on a mission—as elite soldiers had since WWII) and even though 'Taxi Driver' always had a certain Punk following, the mohawk was just not…

That doesn't mean he could see into the future—mohawks (or mohicans as they were called in Britain) didn't really start showing up in Punk culture until around 1980 or so.