Thanks. That's very sweet of you to say.

I have not read the book, and I removed the offending line. Great minds think alike, eh? It's kind of hard to see the film and not come to the conclusion you did but hopefully the film will find an audience, though it's a little hard to figure out who that audience might be. 

That's awesome.

Yeah, it's got a real Cannon vibe to it. I too am surprised neither Golan nor Globus had a hand in this.

I don't get out of the house much these days but I made an exception to go see Atomic Duo at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago. I had never been to the Old School, which is unforgivable considering how long I've lived in Chicago but the experience was fantastic. Atomic Duo is an intergenerational Marxist…

His delivery of his one line is pretty awesome. I like to imagine it took a hundred or so takes just for it to be so ingratiatingly amateurish.

Sure did. Like Houdini, he was a nice Jewish boy from Wisconsin who went on to do some pretty interesting things.

Yeah, Conan did *NSync is gay jokes for years when I think it's pretty apparent at this point that Timberlake at least enjoys the company of women or at least is doing an amazing job of passing for straight.

Another illustration of why it pays to write your own IMDB bio.

I believe Bass was relatively out to the people in his life at the time so I'd like to think Timberlake's turn is good-natured and affectionate rather than mocking.

Yeah, it really lives up to its reputation. It is absolutely ridiculous.

I want to write up ON THE LINE for Commentary Tracks of the Damned but I should probably wait a few months before returning to the well.

When it comes to podcasts, I tend to be obsessive. I'll get into a podcast, then immediately rifle through the archives and listen to every single episode. The latest podcast I am unhealthily obsessed with is Jason Nash's GUYS WITH FEELINGS. I first became aware of Nash through his kick-ass appearances as an…

Eh, you're right. Should have asked about Friday. An unfortunate oversight.

Lil Wayne's recent obsession with skateboarding and deal with Mountain Dew in some ways feel like extensions of REBIRTH, as does the Cash Money/Limp Bizkit teaming. At 29, Wayne really seems to have plugged in to his inner 14-year-old.

I agree that Wayne's mix-tapes are the best way to experience him. Like 50, that's really his medium even if it's ephemeral and disposable by nature.

I like how the theme for most of the videos is "look! It's Wayne! With an electric guitar! That he's playing! Himself!"

I'm thinking about writing up The New Danger for My World of Flops. At one point Mos Def was my favorite rapper but my initial response to The New Danger was "What the fuck?" Then I had an opportunity to really listen to it and I was all, "What the fuck?" There's a lot going on on that album. I'm just not sure how…

He's all over the place (in part because he releases so much content, and releases it indiscriminately) but he's absolutely brilliant at times and ingratiatingly crazy on the whole.

This weekend I watched the last two episodes of "Parks & Recreation", which were pretty goddamn amazing because, c'mon, it's "Parks & Recreation." I also caught the last hour or so of ADDAM'S FAMILY VALUES, which really hold up. So much better than the first one. I'm a little surprised that the entire franchise hasn't…