Say, did we ever find out who ran the iron horse?
I've had a longtime fantasy of Van Dyke Parks being harassed by Mike Love about his obscure lyrics, then knocking him out with one punch and standing over his prone carcass and shouting, "Columnated ruins domino, bitch!"

Well, not if you consider the storyline where Geordi went to prison for tax evasion.

Don't start with the first two. They aren't bad at all, but they're less representative.

They considered Wesley Snipes, Reggie Jackson, and Kevin Peter Hall for Geordi. I don't know if it gets weirder than that.

Well, you can't talk about sexy Trek females without bringing up Suzie Plakson in her many iterations. Imagine a Selar/K'Ehleyr/Tarah/Female Q daisy chain.

We can imprison Kat Dennings so long as she continues to makes films, except of the Caged Heat variety.

And now I can't listen to her on Definitely Not the Opera without thinking, "I've seen her have unsimulated sexual intercourse on film." Worse, I also can't help commenting this aloud, which my girlfriend is tiring of hearing.

I've been into Big Star for many years now, having started with that two-fer album, which is easily the best value I ever found as a CD purchaser. What I didn't discover until this year was their labelmate on Memphis's Ardent Records, Cargoe. I highly recommend checking out "Feel Alright" and "I Love You Anyway".

On a more of a trans-Atlantic rivalry note, I never got into the Beatles until I was older because I grew up in a Beach Boys family. Similarly, my dad was a Buddy Holly man rather than an Elvis man, and I retain that preference to this day.

@PlacidCasual: You love Friends because it's awesome and has a great laid-back vibe and has secret encoded directions to Brian Wilson's house.

I like to pretend the Beach Boys recorded Holland in 1973 and then decided to go out on a high note and call it a day. (I also like to pretend they went ahead and threw "We Got Love", "Carry Me Home", and "Hard Times" on there for an even dozen songs.)

And for that matter, they also covered Led Zeppelin's "Hey, Hey What Can I Do", REM's "Driver 8" and the Smiths' "Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want". In fact, I had a full side of a mix tape that consisted of nothing but the original versions of songs covered by Hootie and the Blowfish. That's what Hootie…

Without question, the best thing any member of Spacehog has produced since "In the Meantime" is the bowel movement that the guitarist drops on Joaquin Phoenix's face in "I'm Still Here".

I have to stand by "Negation", a Mental Jewelry outtake on the Four Songs EP. Patrick Dahlheimer could really play himself some bass, which might be the only appealing thing about that supergroup fusing Candlebox's singer and guitarist with Live's rhythm section. (I've been pushing for the surviving members of the…

I always thought Rob Zombie and Dave Wyndorf from Monster Magnet went to the same school of lyric writing (and imagine the doodles in the margins of their notebooks). I'm happy to say that Monster Magnet's "Dopes to Infinity" also sounds as good now as it did in 1995.

I used to have a roommate who would borrow my copy of "Meat Is Murder" and play the title track at high volume on a loop while eating a huge, bloody steak and laughing maniacally.

Okay, done. What now?

You just don't get it
First, David Marks isn't the reluctant heir to a property empire. He's a neighbor of the Wilson brothers who briefly replaced Al Jardine when he quit the Beach Boys to go to dental school.

I was all alone in my excitement that Seth Rogen was actually getting his own movie for a long time, and it all stemmed from his frustrated, hilarious delivery of the line "You're a stupid idiot!" in an episode of Undeclared.

When it comes to the ladies, Apatow's penchant for reusing actors seems to pretty much extend as far as Leslie Mann, for perhaps obvious reasons.