It'll be the first new Cult Canon screening I'll miss. It should be awesome. WIsh I could be there but duty calls. Strange, strange duty.

They really do. Grodin is such a great straight man. One of the best. 

They really do. Grodin is such a great straight man. One of the best. 

In abstract, it's kind of "Problem Child" meets "What About Bob" it's actually much weirder and darker than that for the reasons I outline in the piece. 

In abstract, it's kind of "Problem Child" meets "What About Bob" it's actually much weirder and darker than that for the reasons I outline in the piece. 

So Walker's supposed to be on an upcoming episode of WTF. Should be fascinating. Lord knows the man has stories.

So Walker's supposed to be on an upcoming episode of WTF. Should be fascinating. Lord knows the man has stories.

Yeah, it'll be hard to find a book more fascinatingly repulsive than BEHIND THE BALL. Everything about that is so wrong.

Yeah, it'll be hard to find a book more fascinatingly repulsive than BEHIND THE BALL. Everything about that is so wrong.

I'd love to do a lot of notorious TV flops. The problem is tracking them down. With something like the Chevy Chase Show, that'd also entail watching about 30 hours of television, even for a show that only lasted a month. I'd do it in a heartbeat, but tracking down decent copies of shows like that might prove…

I'd love to do a lot of notorious TV flops. The problem is tracking them down. With something like the Chevy Chase Show, that'd also entail watching about 30 hours of television, even for a show that only lasted a month. I'd do it in a heartbeat, but tracking down decent copies of shows like that might prove…

Dude, if I only did movies, how could I possibly cover Dee Dee Ramone's 1980s rap album, as I plan to do for the 19th Case File?

Dude, if I only did movies, how could I possibly cover Dee Dee Ramone's 1980s rap album, as I plan to do for the 19th Case File?

I'm really enjoying it. They've been on a real hot streak since I stopped about writing it.

The Archmage of the Aether I wasn't molested but I did grow up in a group home and was institutionalized at 14 and generally had a rough time of it growing up. I wrote a book in part because that's something I always wanted to do and I felt like I had a really good story to tell but also to let people who suffer from…

Right, and Guttenberg's memoir has almost no conflict. The closest it comes is Guttenberg conceding that POLICE ACADEMY IV wasn't quite as fresh as he'd like it to have been.

Yeah, as someone who wrote a book partially about their traumatic childhood I would have felt like a hypocrite if I had let Guttenberg's comment about those kinds of books having no reason to exist go unquestioned.

Television commercials are frequently in the business of making films look terrible, regardless of their actual quality.

I hate to be late to the party but I saw Loudon Wainwright III perform at The Old Town School of Folk Music this Saturday night and holy fuck was it powerful and moving. I wrote in my review of Wainwright's new album, OLDER THAN MY OLD MAN NOW that it would leave listeners laughing through tears and crying through…

This weekend I was the voice of ignorance on the A.V Club superhero panel at C2E2, the resident non-comics reader on a panel filled with experts. I mostly just tried to stay out of the way of people who knew what the hell they were talking about and chip in with a quip when necessary.