Kind of a bad year for metal, honestly.  I don't think you'll get much of that this time around. 

Nah, it's worth it to have coverage that isn't just shilling for AAA games.  Hardcore gamers are going to go elsewhere, but I feel like the coverage here is fine for a level between casual and hardcore.  I'll give them a lot of leeway for not taking the "seven thumbs up" approach of many other outlets.  Sawbuck gamer…

This is how I feel about a great deal of the music on this list.  It seems fine for retail and elevators.  It seems like that article about "boring" music a few weeks ago was a preemptive strike.

I guess Kyle Ryan is the only one not too hip to give the Foos some props.  There's so much precious soft rock on here.  Ugh.  It makes me wonder if the best of movies list won't feature a single explosion.

Good episode!  Itchy and Scratchy always do it for me, and getting three of them was great.  Krusty storylines are reliably good too.

I guess I had to pick an incredibly obscure Mr. Show reference.

I listen to a CBS-affiliated radio station online several days a week, and their commercials for TV are sort of…amazing, in a way.  It's the most fascinating trainwreck.  The dialogue they choose is inexplicable.  Between the backing music and lines they choose for the NCIS shows, they make them sound like the old…

This is even more maddening considering how little NBC has to lose by adding some risque programming along with their prestige comedies, and repositioning themselves as a cable channel on network TV.  But no, they are chasing CBS to be as dumb as possible. 

This reminds me that shows on network TV just aren't sexy anymore  (My exposure to the CW is limited.)  Now, I was about 12-17 during the run of the show, so maybe that clouds my memory, but there sure did seem to be some exceptional female…talent on this show.  You put that cast on TV now even, still phenomenally…

I haven't caught that just yet, though I mostly just stick to the sports coverage.  KIosterman and the video game coverage are great, but too infrequent there.  The (Simmons-driven) decision to contextualize much of pop-culture through either fantasy leagues or gambling tends to turn me off. (The Bad QB League is…

More like Yawn Iver.

Hyden had an article on Grantland recently.  I'm curious what his status with that site and AV Club will be going forward.

The Wire is the obvious point to go to here, but comments earlier today about Law & Order reminded me how L&O seems startlingly accurate when it comes to how little law enforcement and the legal system actually critically think about drug crimes.

I have nothing to add other than that I'm glad someone other than Gherkins got this first. 

Considering how much I hate shopping for pants, and how prescient my mom's pants choices are, I'm glad as fuck when I get some nice Dockers on December 25th.

Is there a new one?  I have the set that has been on the market for a while, and it's fucking underwhelming in terms of features.  Not to mention the weird tradition HBO seems to have of using the DVD format as inefficiently as possible, often putting two episodes on a disc, along with maybe a commentary track and the…

SOMEONE HAS TO PAY!

I can't wait to pick this up, even though I have the Japanese version already.  It's definitely better than the other two albums from earlier in the year.  So many extremely catchy songs. It's awesome.

Is anyone still playing Glitch?  I'm still sinking quite a few hours into it, but it's disappointing how little "game" there is.  Part of my problem is that mining, watering trees, and petting animals are more boring tasks than random button-mashing combat, even though they functionally operate in the same way in…

It's a fucking disaster.  Perhaps in the internet age where solutions to completely unintuitive puzzles abound, it would not feel like the electronic equivalent of banging my head into the wall that it was in the early '90s when I played it.