I didn't see the movie, but I did read the book and I can give it an unqualified endorsement. It's absolutely great. And, from what I can tell, the movie only covered about a third of what's in the book. Definitely get your hands on a copy.

A FUCKING cunt.

But Sammi IS a cunt.

Since you already know the third-season spoilers, can you tell me my hunch is right about Sammi getting back together temporarily with Ronnie, getting pregnant, and then getting pushed down and yelled at by him over her excessive alcohol consumption hurting their baby?

Who could have known that the Starland Vocal Band, Christopher Cross, Men at Work, Culture Club, Milli Vanilli, Marc Cohn, Arrested Development, and Paula Cole weren't in it for the long haul?

It's worth mentioning that Shelby Lynne won this award for what was not only her sixth album but also her comeback album after she got sick of the music industry and disappeared for half a decade.

If she's so obsessed with huge racks, I'll bet she hates being on the same compilation with Jennifer Love Hewitt.

I had no idea until now that Sarjenka was played by future hottie Nikki Cox, as she's unrecognizable under the prosthetics. And sadly, thanks to bad plastic surgery, she's back to looking like an alien again.

It's also ridiculous that Janeway got promoted to Admiral and was giving Picard orders in Star Trek: Nemesis. No way should she be bossing him around.

I once read something along the lines that if an elderly scientist says something is possible, he is almost certainly right, but if an elderly scientist says something is impossible, he is almost certainly wrong.

I wouldn't have dinner with Louis C.K. if I had to pick up the cheque, though. I'd be worried I was underwriting his next year's worth of material about getting fat and poor impulse control. (On the other hand, if Louis were buying, his overeating would be a tax write-off.)

I'm just going to cut-and-paste a comment I made elsewhere:

Can Jason Segel dance?! Hell, yes!

Seriously, though, are they bringing back David Marks? He still survives, as far as I know.

I can make an argument for the Beach Boys' existence right up to the recording of "Hard Times", Blondie Chaplin's last song before quitting the band, which was recorded very late in the Holland sessions and hasn't seen official release. (But you can hear it here: http://www.youtube.com/watc… )

This seems like a good place to link to Hogpig's seminal tribute to the band, "Fuck You, Mike Love":

Holland actually came out in 1973, and that's when I pretend that the Beach Boys broke up, although I've also speculated about an alternate universe in which they put out a double album of 15 Big Ones that complemented their collection of oldies with another disc full of some of the more interesting stuff that Dennis…

Patrick Stewart's best moment while hosting SNL was actually his introduction of the musical guest, Salt-N-Pepa. With an enormous smile and perfect British diction, he announced, "And now … SALT AND PEPPER!"

Poker? I hardly…
What ruins every scene with the Enterprise crew playing poker for me is knowing that the logical consequence was scenes of the Voyager crew playing pool in a baldfaced attempt to differentiate their similar-but-inferior show, but in a very familiar way. It's not like the entire command crew of DS9 was…

Riker doesn't walk like he's planning to kick ass so much as he's preparing to knock down an invisible door with his head, like a human battering ram. He's got serious momentum going when he walks.