There must be a record scratch and bouncy ska music right after he says this. (For some reason, I originally wrote "bouncy rap music", which I will also accept.)

Groovy.

Why hasn't he made a comeback yet? That's a thorny question.

During the punk rock days of the '80s there were squats like this. There was an abandoned brewery in San Francisco that was subdivided into squats, it was known as "the vats". There were a few idealistic types who were born 20 years too late, but there was also a lot of drugs and theft (which is also what happened in…

Or as Lenny Bruce said, "Bobby Franks had it coming".

You mean, doctors who get a commission selling drugs might prescribe you drugs you might not need? Noooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My favorite part of the movie is Marky Mark's daughter's boyfriend quoting the "romeo and juliet" law in Texas…according to my calculations, she would have been 14 when they started dating. But, that's OK, because he was 17. OK!

Harshing their mellow would be fun, like hanging around outside with a Hell's Angels vest and pretending to sell crank. Could replace the HAs with non-whites and have about the same level of panic.

All the revolutionaries were high all the time, maaan! Thomas Jefferson grew weed, maaan!

I've been listening to Cash all weekend, trying to learn a song I'd never heard until a couple of days ago, "Lost on the desert to die". What a song! For country singers, I'd probably go with Merle Travis as he had more influence, whereas Johnny is like Mount Rushmore - something you look at with awe and wonder, and…

I watched the latest Transformers because my company had a movie afternoon. That scene where the John Goodman-sounding autobot said "bitch!" while killing that Decepticon threw me off the entire movie. Even though he was shooting a male Decepticon (I mean, I guess), it sounded sexist. It seems like, everybody gets put…

His line right before this was great too, something like "Rob Schneider was nominated for Worst Actor at the Razzies, but lost to Jar Jar Binks."

Readers' response to Ebert is like a audience member reacting to a good speaker, when everybody thinks that you are speaking directly to them. He did this for me with the review for Trees Lounge. He got the good and the really, really bad of alcoholism so right! He described it so well in just a description of being…

Our local film critic for Metro, Richard von Busack, is better than Kael. LIke it said in Ebert's book, she had her favorites, and would even tell directors how to direct their movies.

Breasts and Chicago. At least an extra half-star if Chicago somehow figured into a movie. However, as Dr.Dean Edell said to a caller who said they have a breast fetish, "if you have an obsession, you could do worse".

What if Grant was drunk at Appomattox? *handing over sword* "Well Lee, we almosht had ya. If we had a little more time, we woulda had ya."

The Kenny Rogers song that should be mentioned is "Ruby, don't take your love to town". That's the song about the Vietnam vet who's paralyzed, can't get it up, and watches his wife go to town to get laid. "and the wants and the needs of a woman your age, Ruby I realize…" Kenny Rogers sang some good songs back in the…

*puts on trilby*

He did, in fact. Your Movie Sucks gives the entire back-and-forth. I have the book at home, I think he ended up giving it three or three and a half stars.

I really expected I would like Life Itself (the book), because I loved Ebert's journal on his site. Somehow though, it didn't grab me like his movie reviews did, which surprised me, and the later interviews in the back half of the book seemed like filler and were pieces I'd read before. But my God I miss him. I want…