[Sigh.] Ned, have you thought about any of the other major religions? They're all pretty much the same.

This overlaps partly with a comment I made elsewhere, but I loved Weird Al when I was ten, and then a few years later I decided it wasn't very "cool" to do so, but then at some point when I was maybe around 19 or so, I thought, "Screw trying to appear 'cool'; the man is funny!"

Television: Teacher, mother, secret lover!

He's a European, all right.

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Why are there so many Floyds on here?

That was very well said, Denby, and I pretty much agree with you. I certainly think he deserves his place in history, but when I've gone and tried to listen to his albums, I wasn't really entertained.

Yeah, Elvis was a faker because he didn't write his own songs. Just like Laurence Olivier was a fake for not writing his own dialogue.

I'm not a religious man, but if you're up there, save me, Superman!

"Ladies and gentlemen, the world's oldest former NFL player! He's 52!"

I respect DiCaprio and think he's a good actor and have enjoyed some of the films he's been in. But the first time I ever saw him was when he played that "street kid" that the Seavers took in on Growing Pains, and I found his performance very irritating because he was so obviously a privileged upper-middle class kid…

I like how the first Monroe you thought of was not Marilyn, nor the President, but the guy from Too Close for Comfort.

Yeah, for me, Bill Hicks is somebody who I admire more than I like, if that makes any sense. I appreciate him, and I think the world did need him, but I sometimes found his stuff hard to sit through.

I'm an aloof, slightly socially awkward man, and I eventually found my little niche.

When I think back to reading Peanuts as a child, I'm blown away at how REAL the characters were. Lucy's crabbiness, for example, annoyed me and got under my skin every bit as much as it would have had she been a crabby real-life classmate of mine.

I mostly agree, and I love Bowie, but I think one can safely ignore certain chunks of his output.

I have a theory: If there's a pop culture phenomenon that you start out liking, then later decide that you don't like, and then later still, decide that you like it once again, then it must be pretty solid after all.

Corollary to Japan's statement at 12:50 am CST: people who don't find Spinal Tap funny are likely to be people who don't have a love of rock music, which is just all the more reason not to become close with them.

Good call on Mad Magazine and MST3K. Mad certainly would be on my list.

Is it okay not to like contemporary punk? Or more specifically, contemporary punks?