My household's long march toward catching up with Mad Men continued, with the great season 3 episode "Guy Walks Into An Advertising Agency," which I quite enjoyed. Now, at long last, Chekhov's lawnmower is a thing. It was one of those episodes that made me want to sit down and power through a marathon of five or six…

You guys are making me want to neglect my A.V. Club duties and sit around reading Storm Of Swords all day…

I picked up the sequels to two of my favorite games of this generation at the local used-games emporium, so my weekend was chock full of futuristic crime-busting in Crackdown 2 and futuristic giant-bug killing in Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon. When I wasn't busy saving various iterations of future Earth from…

In other news, TIL that Jet was, until now, still a thing.

My household was busy preparing for the imminent arrival of a brand-new Casciato for too much pop culture, but we did manage to sneak in episodes of Mad Men (season 3, we came to this particular party very, very late, although it's worked out nicely since the Drapers just had their baby on the latest episode) and Up…

Man, I hate them fancy lads. But I love this movie.

My wife and I had one of those rare (for us) weekends full of actual social obligations and various errands, which ate up a lot of the time that we'd normally have used to consume pop culture. As a result, I can't say we did much of pop cultural note this weekend, simply filling in the few spare hours we did have with…

It was "catch up on the DVR" weekend for me (note: I failed to actually catch up) that included Top Chef (SPOILER: thank god Paul made it to the finals; I couldn't stand the idea of the two hateful mean girls facing off against each other), the Valentine's Day episode of 30 Rock (fun, but overly long. 30 Rock is not…

Kirk Cameron Smells The History does sound like a potential winner for their fall season.

You take that back, Lobsters…

Band name…
Man, Hollywood Star Whackers is going on my Ultimate Could-Be-Band-Names List