If I'd known this was going to be here, I'd have one. Probably with The Beatles and some Otis Redding or Sam Cooke and a bunch of other rock, as usual. Shuffle Thread is one of my favorite things about this place.

"Goodbye, Maggie. Stay as sweet as you are. Goodbye, Lisa. I know you'll make me proud. Goodbye, Bart. . . . I like your sheets.

The original steward of the Shuffle Thread! (Or at least the person in charge of it when I came around.) That was one of my favorite things about this place; I can't explain why I looked forward to it as much as I did. But thanks.

And then one day your mom saw Joe Namath while "Sunshine of Your Love" was playing, and her entire worldview changed?

Chuck Bednarik, aka "Concrete Charlie". He was the epitome of a tough old cuss. (Also the last NFL player to play two ways, i.e., offense and defense, which made his nickname all the more fitting. He was a center and a linebacker when the Eagles won the NFL Championship in 1960.)

I've loved sports for almost my entire life (although that seems to be changing now), and feel the same way. But I've had my eyes opened recently to how many other sports fans essentially view athletes as meat puppets whose only meaning and value is in entertaining them. This applies to both pro and college sports. An…

I think part of it is that so many of us play or played sports. Sports are supposed to be fun. They're games. It's play. We'd all love to play for a living. We'd do it for a fraction of the money those "spoiled" athletes get. Meanwhile, owners make so much more and hold cities hostage, but everyone lines up on their…

Were the science teachers pissed at you for stealing their material? And what's on tap for tomorrow?

Now that we know when Kinja is coming, I just wanted to say thanks to all of you here. I wrote a longer goodbye to the site earlier today, but I wanted to drop in here at least one more time. I've probably written more here at What's On Tonight than anywhere else on the site. Most of it was probably about how awful…

This explains the Abbey Road cover. Don't you see? It's all coming together now!

I move for a bad court thingy.

It's been a pleasure, folks. I don't plan on migrating anywhere; I'm going to try to use this occasion as an opportunity to be more productive in real life. I doubt I'll visit this site much after the switch (although I'm sure muscle memory will continue to lead me here for a while).

He talked a bit about this and showed some of his work to Seinfeld in his episode of Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee a few years ago. I was never a big fan of Carrey's (with Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind being the sole, large, exception), but he seemed like a really thoughtful, grounded guy in that episode.

Not libel. It's satire, it's a joke, no one would take it seriously, etc.

Nah, he's a total piece of shit. Was he a secret environmentalist? Did he advocate for minorities and women? No. For all of his so-called economic populism, he achieved almost nothing, and his ideas for protecting and helping American workers were rooted in xenophobia and racism.

Gorka, too.

I had no idea this was based on a real person.

I've made more progress on Aretha. I own I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You and Lady Soul (which I actually like more, although both are great). I've listened to a few more of hers from the late '60s and early '70s, too — This Girl's in Love with You, Spirit in the Dark, and Young, Gifted and Black.

Thank you! This was awesome. They should give you a column.

I knew on my own that Stevie had a "classic" period, but I must confess this was in my head as I was trying to figure out my point of entry: https://www.youtube.com/wat…