I'm 52, and when I heard The Message by Grandmaster Flash it changed my entire thinking about the possibilities of music. It was really one of the life-changers. I still dig rap, but I do stay with the old stuff I listened to in the day, like Public Enemy or Too Short.

A lot of home-schooled Christians as well, which seems to bring out a somewhat backward concept of a lot of things, and you only get to know what your parents think they know. Weirdly, I know a lot of home-schooled people who went to college and were successful, and actually look at things dispassionately. Just goes…

I'll take a guy speaking in tongues and tossing snakes around over a Bill Maher smirk. At least one is interesting.

A fool's lips bring strife, And his mouth calls for blows.

I was going to say Cracker Barrel, but there's not "sawmill gravy" on everything.

Exactly, and he flirts with a sexy cartoon character, and makes *that* work, too. That takes some serious chops.

I remember this series. He was shot in the head twice and it was ruled a suicide? Sadly, reading the article, I guess it was. The world is really messed up sometimes.

Tumblers of Buckfast for everybody!

And, as somebody mentioned about about analog being more difficult to hack, a well-done cryptological program is not just difficult, but impossible to hack, if the codes are kept safe (on easy to ignite flash paper, or tasty bubblegum paper). That guy or gal, or young girl, reading numbers is one of the safest way to…

I was in Bagdad when you were in your dad's bag!

I always liked it when the PGA tour would have their Masters(?) at what Chris Berman would call "funky cold Medinah".

The world's racetracks!

AV club commenters are still the the best in the ether though. I often scan the article and jump straight to the comments. They should pay some of you guys, the back-and-forth is like nothing else I've seen. I spend way too much time here.

An actor can read the script, find out who else is in it, who is directing it, and who is financing it, and make some pretty good guesses, but how can any actor know that a movie he's acting in will be "good"?

Literally everybody I know including myself has had billing problems with AT&T. You can go to an AT&T office with your bill and they can't find it, and have to call some other office, because it's Uverse, or AT&T Small Business, or some other offshoot. I just changed my internet and I had to completely change my…

Hulu has the Criterion Collection. I've been going nuts watching Les Blank films the past few weeks (yes Hulu, I'm the one)

Yeah! Also the Rubber Room, another Porter song. That guy didn't pull many punches, he just reared back and smacked you.

Prime people usually have a higher fat content than Choice people.

The country world is full of silly album covers. I suppose this would be in my top 10, but barely. Check out Porter Wagoner's The Bottom of the Bottle sometime, where a pensive Porter is looking at a ragged drunk miniaturized version of himself inside a whiskey bottle.

Knoxville girl is good, I Don't Believe You've Met my Baby is great.