I think The House (58 seconds long!) may be the apex of social commentary in hip hop. The word images are amazing.

My favorite top 5 from pre 1990, 1990s, and after the 1990s, because that's how it's divided in my head. I haven't had a console since the original NES.

My favorite top 5 from pre 1990, 1990s, and after the 1990s, because that's how it's divided in my head. I haven't had a console since the original NES.

OMG, Gauntlet! I shudder to think of the number of quarters I shoveled into machines playing that game.

OMG, Gauntlet! I shudder to think of the number of quarters I shoveled into machines playing that game.

How come salmon is in a can while herring is in a jar? Why can't the colored fish be in a jar?

@avclub-71ded0a5c5ea6f613e50d7d1a413eb5d:disqus , I don't know if there's such a thing as HISTORICAL CONTEXT SPOILERS…

@avclub-0f0d67e214f9fef69b278e3d08114da9:disqus Wow! Someone mentioned Last Night! Stumbled across it randomly on Netflix last year and the  "Tell me something to make me love you" scene was the most unexpectedly riveting thing I've seen in a while.

Not a lot of people who studied Buddhism on AV Club I guess. Speaking only of generic Mahayana Buddhists, which is what I assume Choi is, there is basically infinite number of cycles of reincarnation (aka samsara, which does not involve the transfer of consciousness or soul) across levels of being, so every animal was…

@avclub-8b4b5a583538f88468da7b3c83ab4829:disqus This! It took me years of truly awful GMing trying to force players to follow bought modules to realize that if you prepared a rough outline (that you were willing to toss aside), a few setpieces to mix and match encounters, and enough prepared content to get the players…

Phipps didn't say they were terrible. He implied they were kinda "meh".

Random story: The mother of a girl I know is the building manager of an apartment complex in Los Angeles, where one of the band members was (is?) living. (Don't remember which one; I don't really know much about the band.) The guy and the mom had (have?) a regular appointment each weekend to chat over tea and snacks.…

19 Naughty III is one of my favorite hip hop albums of the 90s. Beyond the obvious "Hip Hop Hooray," "Daddy Was A Street Corner," "Cruddy Clique," etc are just great.

I demand the return of the Box of Paperback Books Club!

Man, the stout middle aged British woman with the German husband who tells the story about how, out of fear of the Gestapo, she turned out the Jew hiding in her house and he ended up in the camps. The barely contained fury and self-contempt in her voice as she concludes that Hitler made her a murderer is almost…

Alaskans tend to be pretty laid back about their state (because, honestly, what state can touch our awesomeness?), but we make a point when meeting Texans of noting that they come from the second-largest state.  There's a big tourist sternwheel riverboat in Fairbanks where the bottom deck is the Boiler Deck, the…

There's a love interest? I remember the guns, and the bikes, and the explode-y bits, and the disgusting protoplasmic flesh, but I honestly don't even remember a female character. Is this going to be some "The Ring and Arwen are connected!"-type BS that nerds can use to trick girls into going?

Bringing together two different thread topics - Terry Pratchett on Doctor Who: "People say Doctor Who is science fiction. At least people who don’t know what science fiction is, say that Doctor Who is science fiction. Star Trekapproaches science fiction." http://www.sfx.co.uk/2010/0…

I'm so ashamed that I got this.

I don't know about that.  Stephen Colbert outgeeked James Franco on his show once by revealing an incredibly detailed knowledge of how the downfall of Numenor led to the creation of the One Ring (from The Silmarillion) and there was a pause as the audience came to grips with the disturbing depth of his nerdiness.…