Todd
was all over that tonight. I do find, however, that I tend to enjoy 30 ROCK more when I'm not reviewing it.

Alicia Keys
looks a little different in that photo, doesn't she?

I'm a big Taylor Gordon-Levitt fan. The man does good work, as do all the other Taylors.

True story
Kinkade has one other film credit, painting backgrounds for Ralph Bakshi's FIRE AND ICE.

Yeah, I know Ludacris' verse on that by heart. It'd be pretty good without him but is awesome with him.

Yeah, I really like the Autotune the News videos. That's some comical type shit. Still hasn't gotten old, unlike T-Pain.

That's true. But also "X Men", "X Men 2" and "The Usual Suspects" (which I'm not crazy about but is certainly a well-directed film). So he's batting about .500, which isn't bad for a big Hollywood director.

I agree. As folks mentioned yesterday, sequels to superhero movies are often better than the originals.

I was at a Fatlip concert at the Abbey Pub when the Sox won the World Series. The opening act was playing and there were maybe 3 people watching him and 97 people watching the Sox on the TV. It was fucking sweet but I wished I was with Claire or Leonard and also that it had happened in 95, at the height of my Sox…

Yeah, Tompkins is a funny guy. His bit on Fabio is much better than a Fabio bit has any right to be.

Interesting. Where did he Mr. Tompkins say this? What was the context?

I saw this and Mac & Me the same week. It was also a week we put together our best of the year and best of the decade movie lists. It was a strange, very schizophrenic week for me.

She's sexy in a trashy kind of way without being particularly pretty, cute or beautiful.

We reviewed Black Dynamite (which I enjoyed a great deal) and interviewed its star and director. Other than that, we've decided not to cover it.

He had nice things to say about Uwe Boll, except that Boll didn't seem to particularly care about the quality of his films (shocker).

Ventura was my favorite player at the time (he seemed like a really good guy and was a terrific clutch player/third baseman) but I still kind of enjoyed seeing him get his ass kicked by a man old enough to be his dad.

And yet I find all of those characters funny. It's strange writing about SNL because sketch comedy, probably more than other forms of comedy, is so ridiculously subjective. A lot of the comments boil down to, "That was funny" versus "No it wasn't".

I wasn't complaining, just noting. Of course the show wants the largest possible audience and that generally means skewing young. I was joking about Reiner.

Weird Al is delightful. Also, never speak ill of that crappy handjob. That shit is sacrosanct.

Correction: Congo, from the Oscar-winning writer-director of "Doubt".