Wow
Based on the advertisements, this had all the ingredients to be the worst movie of the year (post-Hustle & Flow Terrence Howard, the granite-faced guy from all those teen movies, a trendy MMA tie-in, a Rocky-style romance).

Max Payne was an excellent game at the time— I played it to death— but its flaws were glaring and eminently hate-able. Some of that shit, like the asinine blood maze and the weird character models, wasn't even acceptable in 2001.

What happened, Ice T?
You used to be cool.

Kevin Sorbo: The Legendary Journeys
I wonder if, when he signed on to do a syndicated show about a campy Hercules, Kevin Sorbo realized that it was the closest he'd ever get to legitimate cinema.

Kudos to Mark Wahlberg in the corpse scene— his rendition of Max Payne's "I'm poopin'!" expression from the first game was flawless.

The true hero of this season will be a giant fucking tumor in Hiro's cerebellum.

I'm so three thousand and eight.

It's a far less exciting explanation, but she was probably pissed because her sound was obviously fucked up. She started off key, she was constantly ahead of or behind the background, and she spent half of the song playing with her earpiece.

It's not funny guys!
I don't know what kind of weapons will be used in the war between Jamie Foxx and Miley Cyrus. But I can tell you what the war after that will be fought with — stone clubs.

SKINNERRRRRRR!!!!!
I hope something happens soon to break up the Jim/Charles plots. It was a nice change of pace at first, but it's getting perilously close to turning into the Skinner/Chalmers bit. Which is funny on The Simpsons, but not so great on The Office.

I didn't get it. I had to do some interweb searching to make sure that Kal Penn had not, in fact, died. Four minutes of research confirmed that Kumar is still alive.

I was working in bars back in 2005,and I can see why someone would forever connect this song with rage and hatred.

The girl's visible discomfort— plus the point that Seacrest probably didn't build his multimillion-dollar crappy media empire by spending his weeks playing with someone's kids— led me to doubt that those kids call him "Unkie Ryan."

At first, I thought the new girl was brighter than Paula Abdul. Now, I think she's just less ostentatious about flaunting her retardedness.

Touchin' kids
Would it hurt Lil Rounds' chances in the competition if she told Seacrest and YoDawg to keep their hands off of her children? That would have been reason enough for me to cast my first Idol vote.

Getting doored
I've been doored before. It wasn't the cause of Mos Def's problem, but I winced watching it.

At least they didn't do THAT
I was glad to see that the baby didn't turn out to be Rebel. Of course, that would have been completely asinine, but I think that says something about my lowered expectations for Heroes these days.

That's probably the jacket he wore to his deadwife's funeral, Zoolander-style.

@ Grimace: plenty of journalists are finding new ways to be journalists. The problem, for journalists and publishers is that the money involved has changed in a huge way. I don't expect anyone to feel sorry for any of us, but money matters.

And I see I'm not alone here in the law school plan! I've found admissions committees pretty sympathetic to ship-jumping journalists, so fear not!