Yes, it is, because today at work we dug up some old sets of promo karaoke CDGs, and "Party Hits Volume 2" began with the 1999-centric juggernaut of Genie in a Bottle, Bye Bye Bye, Oops I Did It Again, and All Star, and also included, among other things, It's My Life, It's Gonna Be Me, and of course, The Thong Song.

Regarding the set design and atmosphere, it resembles a kind of ideal vision of A City for me - obviously not an ideal city, or really somewhere I'd like to be, but a combination of memory and dream reprocessing of actual things.

Oh, yeah, old McDonaldland people, including Big Mac and Mayor McCheese and a grimacey Grimace, and Fry Guys. I was really annoyed when they introduced Birdie and cuted everyone up.

"They want to murder you in a well, which seems a bit harsh, but that's what it says on this cue card."

Peter Gabriel, Us.

Me too. Sadly, I know a song called "We Love Barney Fife," a filking of "We Didn't Start the Fire," and this photo made me get stuck on that. Bleh.

Spirited Away is one of those soul-grabbers for me. In the best possible way, of course.

I can't claim to be, like, an active fan or anything, but I will stand up for the enjoyability of AC/DC. One of my favorite DJ's called them the masters of the single entendre, lovingly.

Too busy focusing outrage on how these are clearly Utahraptors…and then a size check on Wikipedia brought up this, with its super-deluxe human comparison figure:
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Or this one, which I gave as a gift:
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I wanna cast Magic Missile! I attack the darkness!

Murray Head also plays Sir Henry Jowls in "The Fourth Tower of Inverness," which is a radio drama made by ZBS Media. Wikipedia has details:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/w…

Well, ugly terminology or not, John Flansburgh is a brand manager par excellence for TMBG. That headhunter was just observing the obvious.

There is a theremin you can play at the St. Louis Science Museum. You can't see the coils, as they have very sensibly hidden it completely behind wood and glass so hordes of small children can't destroy it, but it still works (or did when I was there in 2012, anyway.) It's very cool, and ridiculously hard to play.
And…

My best friend borrowed all my childhood self-recorded tapes a few years ago and then returned them - having made mp3s of them, which she also gave me. I don't listen to them much, but sometimes you just need to hear your 8-year-old self making up soap opera dialogue on the fly, or your 12-year-old self being J.R.…

This album came out when I was 10, and my brother and two favorite cousins and I would sing along to "Love on the Rocks," as dramatically as possible. This included acting out "Suddenly you find you're out there, walking in a storm," inserting a shocked, but dopey, "Duh, it's a storm!" over the rising violins.

I went to IMDB to check, and the answer is yes, it looks like he's done some live roles every year….in the approximately 5 minutes he must have free from the wall-to-wall voice acting. Dude WORKS.

Not that Jon Hamm isn't the most math of many, but I would vote for Tom Kenny for Ice King.

A particular death 3/4 through The Grey King was just awful.

From the same library, I finally read all of the Prydain books in January. Thoroughly awesome.