The casting in Starship Troopers is so subversive that a lot of people still don't get it. Michael Ironsides really is the lodestone of the picture, but on a superficial level, it's 90210 in space.

Saw the U.S. ending in the theater or "theatre" and didn't think it was all that happy. The heroine is alive but hallucinating and probably irretrievably insane. She's as likely to drive off the mountain as not. So its grim, but there's some air in it, compared to the UK ending…which makes suicide look good…and…

Where the Pyramid Meets The Eye
I've always liked him for his cover of NOTHING IN RETURN from this 1987 Roky Erickson tribute.

I can't hear FUZZ without thinking of SUPER FUZZ, starring Terrance Hill:

Mama's Boy: The Little Jimmy Coronet Story

I just learned about the original and learned this was developed by Terry Nation. I'll probably check it out on Netflix.

U.S. public broadcasting has a hard-on for anything British. So you will see
Last of the Summer Wine
Keeping Up Appearances
My Hero
Are You Being Served
and other such shit, usually plugging a late evening or weekend afternoon slot. The various PBS services just create public service or documentary programs. There…

The Idi Amin posts weren't really funny, but I was trying to get the voice right. I think it worked most of the time. Listening to The Last King of Scotland on a road trip necessitated this exorcism.

The immolation of Idi Amin has conjured the harridan philosophizer Ayn Rand. May they have babies in Heaven.

1000th post and thirdsies
Oh, and I'd like to apologize for being the Idi Amin joke poster.

I guess we're the only two people in the whole Internet who care. So I will have to work this out.

Lisa Lampanelli must be right about EVERYTHING!

Nightmare on Elm Street Collection
I picked up two DVD four-packs of the series for $14 each just a couple of weeks ago. I like the period cheese in each, the weak and repetitive characterization, the lamebrained apocalyptic plot of Freddy's Dead, the gay panic of Part 2, Freddy playing dress up…The original…

Beerfest's depiction of drinking is like science fiction. Beerfest is unto alcoholics as Stone Cold is bikers.

Everybody's qualified.

Baker of course.

The Lord loves a Working Man.

Asia Carrera?

When the Apprentice Boys of Philadelphia were crushed by the mechanations of premature Taylorism.

I saw the new one, and its good.