It's a great tune. It just sounds out of place in the album.

Yeah, I've always thought of Pet Sounds as being similar to What's Going On, in that it's a suite of songs that have a consistent instrumentation and production style (though no repeated melodic motifs like that record). But then Sloop John B comes out of nowhere and sounds nothing like the rest of the album.

It may be a useful word, but to call someone pathetic is clearly an insult.

Nothing pisses me off more than fortune cookies that give you advice rather than prognostication. That's not what I came to the cookie for!

Dear George, Thanks for the Panama Red! It was groovy! Your pal, Thomas Pynchon.

I've been making my way through the big D&Q anthology, and they've been responsible for publishing a lot of great stuff. But this is not so compelling.

Based on the excerpt, this comic seems pretty simple. Isn't it crazy that cutesy cartoon animals eat out of the garbage and end up dying violently? Of course, the answer is, not really.

"Thanks for your order. I'll send it to the kitchen, and as soon as the chef feels open, rested, sensitive, and liberated to express himself as truthfully as possible, he'll start working on your dinner. Why don't you give me your cell phone number, and I'll give you a call."

I assume the impossible question is, who cares?

Excelsior! *cough cough*

Many years back, I was in a video store in San Francisco, and as I walked out of the adult section of the store I ran into Robin Williams. Not my proudest moment.

"If it worked for Jerry Lee Lewis, it works for me."

*Looks it up in Cookie Manual of Style* Whaddya know, Cookie's right!

Bizarro vladdrak! Me am sad to meet you!

And I ain't heard nothin' up and down the dial, in the middle of the dial, or nowhere… but a bunch of rooty poops.

HBO is running out of prestige series, so it's not that shocking.

This is as good a place as any to mention my favorite bit of movie marquee vandalism, when someone changed She's Having a Baby to He's Shaving a Baby. I felt guilty for changing it back.

One thing we know about God is that she loves tits.

I feel somewhat responsible for that one, though maybe not for any justifiable reason. I was in a comedy troupe with Alex in college, and I invented a character with a thick Chinese accent (who was, to be totally honest, a blatant rip off of Dave Thomas' character Lin Yee Teng from SCTV.) When Alex got a job on the…

Veep minus Armando Iannucci, which is a little worrying.