I came very close to including "I See a Darkness" which is a great fucking song. That said, this piece was already over three thousand words long. One of the nice things about these albums is that they often lead back to the originals. Listening to "I See a Darkness" and "The Man Who Couldn't Cry" I found myself…

Yeah, it's one of those happy coincidences where calling the albums "American Recordings" is both shameless self-promotion and entirely appropriate. Who's more American than Cash?

Too true. I am duly chastened.

I believe in this cause so strongly
that I contradicted my policy of never spending money on anything so I could snag one of those nifty Mirth Music and Mayhem prize packages. I encourage others to do likewise.

I hear he wrote Mitt Romney's favorite book.

I liked how no one commented on how fucking bizarre that dance class was. It was just sweet background craziness.

Everybody's talking baby, bout Josh Gad and his role in The Rocker, running through the something something of his mind.

Does anyone remember Hammer's cover? Shockingly enough, it was kind of cheesy.

There were supposed to be clips of the cat bit and the cold open but they never showed up and I'm pretty much the only A.V Clubber left in the office at this point. Bleerggg! All ten people reading this: take my word for it, it was awesome watching Palin shove cats down his pants.

I think the difference is probably that Baldwin has hosted sixteen times before so the writers know how to cater to his gifts and build the show around him.

I plan to throw a shoe. Spoiler: Keith's pick is "Hard To Hold". He's crazy bout that Springfield.

Steve Martin was very funny in Baby Mama. The scene where he tells Amy Poehler the secret to success (have a large penis) was fucking brilliant. I'd love to see him do more of those quirky character parts.

I am so totally there
Someone has to heckle you.

I believe Mr. Tobias is giving a speech to his nephew or niece's high school class. And also fleeing me for a few days. It is is his unfortunate lot in life to work several feet away from me and my tomfoolery. There's a reason he's got those big noise-canceling headphones on all the time.

Wow. That's uh, something.

he does a lot of stage work if I'm not mistaken.

I took Ambien for a little while. One of its side effects is (seriously) temporary amnesia. Sometimes in the morning I would try to piece together exactly what I did the night before based on various clues lying around my apartment. It made me feel like a very weird insomniac detective. So I know where Tracy is coming…

I thought last week's episode was hilarious.

Dammit Jack
You know I need my big beef and cheddar. Does anyone else now inherently associate Arby's with Isabella Rossellini? Hey, I liked Noel Tries The New Foods. I would welcome a return. I don't think there's too much crossover with Taste Test necessarily.

Wow
that's crazy anti-climactic. Eminem continues to give eternal adolescence a bad name. He's what, sixty at this point? And this is what he's rapping about?