Nina was better all year, but it seems like your underselling her issues in the finale. Aside from Emeril getting one bad piece of duck (a dish everyone else seemed to love), she had everyone's least favorite dishes. Pretty much everyone agreed that the swordfish was bad and the the desert was underwhelming (and…

O'Neil staring at the camera with the blank look on his face is going to haunt my dreams.

man just let your kids listen to whatever they want to listen to you weirdos.  if they like whatever every other tween in their class likes then awesome who cares.  at least they will have something to talk about with their tween friends instead of being that weirdo who listens to joy division and derisively snorts at…

The Menzingers album deserved so much more press than it actually got.  It wasn't even reviewed by most of the big names, including this one.  Celebration Rock completely laps the field for me (and is a pretty strong contender for my favorite album of at least the last ten years), but that was probably my second…

The Menzingers album deserved so much more press than it actually got.  It wasn't even reviewed by most of the big names, including this one.  Celebration Rock completely laps the field for me (and is a pretty strong contender for my favorite album of at least the last ten years), but that was probably my second…

I really enjoyed the Flaming Lips the one time I saw them live, but it does seem like one of those deals that would not hold up well with repeated shows.  Like it was pretty crazy to see all the confetti and dancing ladies and dude in a bubble one time, but it seems like it would wear a little thin after awhile.  And…

I really enjoyed the Flaming Lips the one time I saw them live, but it does seem like one of those deals that would not hold up well with repeated shows.  Like it was pretty crazy to see all the confetti and dancing ladies and dude in a bubble one time, but it seems like it would wear a little thin after awhile.  And…

Those are the exact same bands I immediately thought of the first time I heard it too.

Those are the exact same bands I immediately thought of the first time I heard it too.

Goddamn what a fun record.  Nothing but awesome hooks, power chords, and drum fills that make me want to pound away at my steering wheel.  It's pretty much everything I love about music, and it's gonna take a whole lot to knock it off the top spot of my (no doubt intensely anticipated) album of the year list.  Can't…

Goddamn what a fun record.  Nothing but awesome hooks, power chords, and drum fills that make me want to pound away at my steering wheel.  It's pretty much everything I love about music, and it's gonna take a whole lot to knock it off the top spot of my (no doubt intensely anticipated) album of the year list.  Can't…

Holding out for Biodome 2

Holding out for Biodome 2

Coach willed an entire underfunded gritty urban high school into existence and then turned it into a football powerhouse within two years, pretty sure he could turn Wall Street around in like a month.  He's got this.

Yeah agreed with this.  It was going to be pretty much impossible to match '59 Sound, but American Slang was a good effort.  I didn't love it at first (whereas The '59 Sound blew me away almost immediately), but I was hooked within three or four listens, and it stayed in heavy rotation in my car for pretty much the…

Yup.  They work in a pretty narrow range, but they are sooooo fucking good at it.  The '59 Sound has become one of my favorite albums of all time, so if they want to just keep on doing stuff like that I'm pretty okay with that.

Hey this show is for 8 year old girls and watching it as a grown ass man is creepy as fuck and makes you look like a child molester.  Just a quick FYI.

Bright Eyes has a dumb annoying voice and writes mostly dumb annoying music but "First Day of my Life" is a genuinely beautiful song.

That is not how flu shots work!