The Today Show does indeed suck …
… but even they can't spoil Rock Band for me.

Definitely second Phoebe Cates. The scene of her getting out of that pool singlehadedly (no pun intended) launched me into puberty.

Ditto. I've been holding off on picking up some of the recent Criterion releases in anticipation of BD versions (I know they might take awhile, but they'll be worth the wait).

I, too, enjoyed Galaxy Quest. You're my friends. I enjoy your company.

Actually, it's an extreme j. It's pronounced "SLAYER OWNS BITCHES-ob".

Gott in Himmel!
A ZMF interview! My day is now complete.

Ouch. I pay $2 a month for BBC Canada, and that's really just for Eastenders and Top Gear.

All the librarians and children of librarians in this thread are going to burn me in effigy for this, but…

Yikes. That's…(shudders)…just…Manwich…

Part III has both Ewoks and Sofia Coppola.

Trust me, Part II will be the best of the three.

I'm from Alberta (Canada's Texas) and I did the same thing. That and Nahum. You want bleak and miserable? Read Nahum.

Try jotting a note in the margin of a Kindle. Not that I'm a big marginalia guy, but it's a nice option to have when I need it.

Our wives would probably have a lot to talk about
I, too, am drowning under an increasingly large collection of DVDs, CDs, LPs, and many, many, many books. All of these have much more compact electronic equivalents (with the slight exception of books, where not everything is an e-book yet, thank god), but I'll always…

Yeah, what's up?

Please, for the love of god …
… no more trilogies. Of anything. Why does everything need to be a bloody trilogy now?

This is one of those posts that is going to come off like a string of failed firsties. Or Fursties, for that matter.

Thanks, Tasha. Apparently, pop culture has broken my memory. Read that one and enjoyed it.

I recall the nerdish outcry when Tom Bombadil was left out of LOTR. Seriously, if Peter Jackson had left Tom Bombadil in, I'd have asked for my money back.

Pleasant but forgettable …
… is exactly the way I'd describe Dark Star, the only novel by Furst I've read. Pretty well-written, interesting setting, but ultimately literally forgettable. By that, I mean that I'd completely forgotten about it and had to go to the Chapters site to remember the name of it, having even…