saw Ray LaMontagne live
He opened for Guster at Pier Six Pavilion in Baltimore, 2007. He was boring and slow, uninteresting in every way. Mrs. Fhtagn and I wandered away from our seats to the beverage cart and looked out at the boats in Baltimore harbor while Ray wailed. It's funny Steve H. mentioned it, because in…

Michael Beck: a poor man's Andy Gibb.

two problems
1. I completely believe Kurtz, and his story totally negates Lucas' assertions that the whole Star Wars saga was in his head before he wrote Ep IV. I have called bullshit since 1977.

It's funny… because it's racist!

Reading A. Bertram Chandler is as easy as A.B.C.!

"…and to make a long story short…"
"TOO LATE!"

Liar.

Maura's pointy cones
They revisit us in the scene where she's explaining to the temp that she looks like a woman, not a guy. (JJH)

Reelz is how I watched this week's episodes. I also don't own season 5, so I plan to DVR the episodes as they air on Reelz in the next couple of weeks.

meta-humor on Bill's impressions
Phil Hartman was hilarious on SNL doing the very impressions that fail to make a ripple in the newsroom: Bill Clinton and Charlton Heston, specifically from Soylent Green ("Soylent Green is PEOPLE!").

That video game was Gauntlet. I gave my local Peter Piper Pizza all my paper route money in quarter form to play Gauntlet every day after school.

a revisit is in order
The oldest Fhtagn child, a boy of 14, has taken an incredible and admirable interest in "old" movies and music lately. He found a DVD copy of 2001 in the bargain rack at Ross last Friday and surprised me with it. I was very excited that he's interested enough to seek this classic out. We should…

Baah ba ba-baah ba ba-baah ba ba-baah ba ba BAAH!

You're the ocean?

Rocky and Bullwinkle lunchbox, Underdog costume for Halloween.
The early 1970s, damn good times.

If those are the light moments, I think we need to coin a new phrase: "Kubrickian sense of whimsy". For example, the SF sergeant in Afghanistan showed a Kubrickian sense of whimsy when he made small talk about cheese on the way to the insurgent stronghold.

To add to TransducerX and Captain Rebound, this film came out six months before the Eagle landed on the Moon. Space travel was sexy and alluring. Space hotels, moon colonies, and interplanetary missions in a huge, commodious spaceship infinitely more so. "2001"was a paean to the potential of mankind, in conquering…

I don't know much about art, but I know what I like.

I've seen Beetlejuice A HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SEVEN TIMES, AND IT KEEPS GETTING FUNNIER EVERY SINGLE TIME I SEE IT!

Me too! I would rather take your eyes out with a spoon.