Agreed. Or, as Dan Telfer put it:
https://twitter.com/dantelf…

Al Franken said that Dennis Miller was always a right-leaning guy, and you can see it in his Rants books (basically transcripts of his HBO show monologues.) But whatever his political leanings, pre-9/11 Miller was on the George Carlin track of being unafraid to satirically challenge whatever political party did…

Of all the crazy boasting the Beasties did (more rhymes than Phyllis Diller, more spice than the Frugal Gourmet, etc), nothing is as great as this song's "I got more rhymes than J.D.'s got Salinger"

Let's all take a moment and remember how incredible that final moment really is.

Kirby paid some bills early on by drawing figures for clothing catalogs and ads, and one of the things I love about his work is how his characters always look like they're wearing clothes. Too many comics artists from my time (late-70s-present), even many of the really good ones, essentially just drew nude Barbie-doll…

I saw some of "Testament" on TV when I was ten (around 1985-6), and my mom made me stop watching it. At the time I couldn't understand why. There was no violence, no sex stuff, no swearing. It was only days later, when I realized I probably hadn't gone an hour without thinking about it, that I understood why she…

I remember it being an incredibly melancholy book, so much so that I was surprised just now to see it as one of Beverly Cleary's. The theme of a lonely kid learning too young that you can't count on amyone but yourself (but that doesn't mean other people don't love you) feels much more Judy Blume than Cleary. Next…

I like what writer John Rogers said about the first Kick-Ass film:

Well the first "Kick-Ass" film managed to excise most of Millar's horrible horrible dialogue and cheap plot points while maintaining the street-level concept (except for that whole jet pack thing), so hopefully they've done the same with the second film.

"L.A. Confidential" is one of my favorite Hollywood movies of the last twenty years, but its source material is different enough to warrant a six- or eight-part HBO miniseries (which I believe was actually the plan for it back in the 80s), faux-Disneyland subplot and all.

I love what Tricky did with "Black Steel," but the best cover of all time is still Laibach's "Sympathy for the Devil."
http://youtu.be/Q3ZNidzWLIQ

I enjoy Tricky's version a lot, but it's different enough to be apples-to-oranges.

If they do Sonic youth, I hope they try to justify "Cool Thing," featuring Chuck D himself.

I really liked the finale. But I'll be honest, it could've used a little more Cut Man.

People Ain't No Good.

My friends and I still use the phrase "threat level: midnight" way, way too often. Most recent occurrence: my roommate found out that "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" will be playing at a local theater this weekend. The subject of his email (which, for the record, went out over five full days before the movie will…

List your three favorite books and how they influenced your life.

For reading, I can't wait for Ed Brubaker's cold war comic"Velvet."

This will probably make ten times as much money as "Pacific Rim."

Agreed, and this is hardly the first time I've heard a song that started off well but sounded incomplete.