It's in Detroit too, but it's hard to know, because Dan Ackroyd had them replace Doctor Detroit's head with a Crystal skull-shaped bottle filled with vodka.

"Yes, I'm painting you.  I'm painting you with my mind."

I remember it being fun the last time I went, which was over 25 years ago.  I've been thinking I need to do it again at some point.

Caterpillar Crawl by the Lively Ones (you know it if you ever saw Pulp Fiction) is the standard bearer for surf saxophone.

I did work at Century 23 for about 4 years in the late 80s. I can't speak for what they do now, since they all got bought out a long time ago, but back then we only worked in one of the theaters. And yes, we usually got the second run stuff. There was an entire year where one of the theaters was showing Crocodile…

My favorite part was the music by King Sunny Ade.

You have obviously never seen Randy Jackson.

Woo!  Sarah Winchester reference!I used to work at a movie theater right next door to the Winchester Mystery House.  We occasionally got free passes in exchange for letting their staff have free movie tickets.  And every year on Sarah Winchester's birthday, people would play dumb pranks (clogging the fruit punch…

Much as I love Aubrey Plaza, she is too deadpan and weird to be the next Zooey Deschanel, and I for one am grateful.

This makes me think of David Robinson's experience drumming with the Modern Lovers.  Apparently Jonathan Richman was obsessed with making their live performances quiet and soft enough that a baby could listen to it without getting upset.  So first he had David Robinson cover his drumheads with towels.  But apparently…

@avclub-88c684398fdcd02e0cf958f8ddb068d6:disqus , I defnitely understand that impulse, but if my last relationship taught me anything, it's that staying in a relationship that isn't working causes more harm to both parties than doing the hard thing and breaking it off. You may think that you're not being the bad guy…

Tapeheads!

Kids love corprophagia!

Basque or GTFO!

"How many times do we get ourselves into trouble because we don't say 'I forgot'?  Let say you're on trial for armed robbery.  You simply say to the judge 'I forgot armed robbery is illegal.'"

I don't think it's ignorance as much as it is hubris. When it comes to money, some people think they can game the system and put one over on the government. Unless you are a multinational corporation, that tends not to work out in your favor.

The best work that Mandy Patinkin ever did.

There were four volumes.  The first two I mentioned, Jerusalem Commands, and The Vengeance of Rome.  You're right about Pyat's views about Carthage, which I, not knowing anything of the history, connected to Pyat's anti-Semitism.  I've read some other Moorcock stuff (Behold The Man, The Dancers at the End of Time,…

I'd be curious to read that Carthage book.  I'm currently reading the first in a series of books by Michael Moorcock called Byzantium Endures.  It's about a coke-addicted Russian Jewish anti-Semite named Pyatinski who lives through many of the major events of the 20th-century.  He brings up Carthage a lot (the…

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