I graduated from Lamar in 1990. It was under renovation most of the time I was there, so it only looked the way it does in Rushmore (as Grover Cleveland) my last year. I hated it, but I think I would have hated any high school. And certainly, calling it "ghetto" strikes me as an overstatement, although it definitely…

I graduated from Lamar in 1990. It was under renovation most of the time I was there, so it only looked the way it does in Rushmore (as Grover Cleveland) my last year. I hated it, but I think I would have hated any high school. And certainly, calling it "ghetto" strikes me as an overstatement, although it definitely…

I was certainly thinking of that one as I read the article. I saw it when I was quite young; it may very well have been the first movie I saw that ended with the heroes' deaths. (Well, other than Old Yeller.) It totally devastated me.

I think there was a viral video demonstrating that it was possible on level previously unimaginable.

I was at an all-day outdoor show at the University of Houston that featured about a dozen regional and national punk/alternative bands, and Snow. The sound was crappy during his set (which was still during daylight), so he got pissed, threw his microphone down, and jumped off the stage. While he was sulking back to…

I actually had to stop and think about it. I didn't believe it was chronologically possible for college, Nirvana, and iTunes to exist all at once. Because I was in college when this record came out, and I didn't know anyone with iTunes.

I've been told by various girlfriends that my habit of talking about my bowel movements in fairly precise detail is a "male thing," which I assume means that their other boyfriends did the same thing. So, yeah, a lot of guys and I like to talk about poop. At the same time, I can't stand the word "fart" or the phrase…

I think that's pretty much the same thing the housekeeper says in Being There after she sees Chance the gardener on television.

I do sometimes cry (or at least tear up a little) at those moments in movies that are supposed to make the viewer do just that, but like some other folks here I've also cried for reasons I'm utterly at a loss to explain. The weirdest one I remember was seeing Star Trek V (at least, I think it was V) in the theater. I…

Whether it's called overexposure or ubiquity, the phenomenon does tend to breed contempt, especially for anyone who has ever worked at a job where the radio was permanently tuned to the classic rock (or top 40, or whatever) station. It's not simply a matter of admitting something that's popular is actually good OR…

Once Upon a Time in Mexico
The climax involves an attempted military coup during a Day of the Dead celebration. The townsfolk in the parade immediately pick up weapons in defense against a corrupt general (operating in cahoots with the CIA, of course) and his army. So, you have people in skull masks shooting bazookas…

I don't know whether it was necessarily preordained that Nirvana in particular would become as big as they did, but major labels had been signing the kinds of bands that would eventually be conveniently labeled "alternative" for a while (e.g., Husker Du, the Pixies, Sonic Youth), so the general trend, at least, feels…

I don't know anything about linguistics, but I still found the following technical (and I assume at least partially tongue-in-cheek) analysis of Homer's use of words like "saxamaphone" and "oboe-me-boe" (apparently called "Reduplication in English Homeric Infixation") pretty entertaining: http://www.ic.sunysb.edu/Cl…

Potential future MYOF entry?
Honky Tonk Highway. Has anyone else seen it?