Hey, it's 2 in the Pavonis Mons ring.

"Lost in the World" and "Impossible Soul" threaten to give Auto-Tune a good name.

Whatever. If any record deserves a 10.0 since, I don't know, Dear Science, this one does, too. Is it this year's best? That's an absurd question, really. The best albums this year are so absurdly great that ranking them is an exercise in masturbation. Is it as good as The Subrubs? The ArchAndroid? High Violet?…

Yeah, but who uses Netflix for mainstream studio movies? Those have awful special features anyway. I mean movies by Criterion and the like, which are almost always full of fascinating material.

This Is All Good and Nice, But…
Seriously, like 4/5 of the movies on Netflix aren't streaming. Sure, there are enough streaming movies to watch classics until your eyes bleed, and I primarily use Netflix to stream, but the full gamut just isn't there.

Fringe.
This is basically a warning notice for Fringe to get better ratings or it will be cancelled. But no show gets better ratings on Friday nights. So we can safely assume this to be Fringe's last season.

Inside Job. We need to burn Wall Street to cinders.

We have two great general liquor stores here in Lexington, both of which stock Midas Touch and Palo Santo. One stocks the Bitches Brew, and the other stocks Chateau Jiahu, Theobroma, Pangaea, Fort, and Black & Blue. But both the Midas and Palo Santo are unusually expensive, so I haven't gotten around to them yet.…

That's one of the silliest things I have ever heard. It's like living with a chef and complaining you never get to go to McDonald's anymore.

King Cobra is right down there with Steel Reserve. I don't want to touch that shit with a 50 foot pole.

As a newly minted beer snob, who has largely replaced bourbon and Guiness as his staple drinks with beer, I have to say that Dogfish Head offers some absolutely incredible beers. Here's a rundown of my favorites:

And it didn't… Fuck it, I really have no idea how to make those links work.

http://maps.google.com/maps…
Well, I think that should work.

Oh, that link didn't work right. I don't know how to get the location to come through with the street view link just jet…

That's the street where I live in downtown Lexington, KY. I thought we could all compare neighborhoods, since I've lately developed a fascination with the contrasting demographics of different parts of our nation's cities.

What a Wonderful and Horrible World…
This shot appears to have been taken last Wednesday, when I was out of town.
http://bit.ly/anJHXB

That article's author, like those of most NY Times culture pieces, is too caught up in trend-watching to notice the substantive point right in front of him: Soul music is alive and evolving again today in a way it hasn't been for decades. An article addressing this point might well have had Cee-Lo, or any of the…

More soul than hip-hop and more pop/R&B than either, but in any case it's fantastic.

Fuck You If You Don't Love This Album.
It's easily one of this incredible year's very best and most enjoyable albums. Between this, The ArchAndroid, I Learned the Hard Way, and New Amerykah Part 2, this has been a great year for soul, too.

Also, Bergman's Persona. It's a film about an actress becoming another person, or another person conceiving of herself as an actress. In either case, the opening montage and several startling cuts suggest that the entire work is intended to be perceived as a film, or that it is taking place in its director's…