In the same vein, I didn't love the Col. Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains album, but that final song, "Ignorance is Bliss", is amazing.

Don't forget the drummer, Brain.

I remember "Bandages" being a fun song.

Your flag referendum was a shitshow. Sorry you're still going to get confused with Australia for the foreseeable future.

"Unlike 'Mr. Brightside' before it"

I enjoy The Strain as dumb summer fun, but I have a feeling I will also have to give up on it if it is as inconsistent as usual after 4-5 episodes.

I received the complete two-volume hardcover edition of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind back at Christmas and am finally getting around to tackling its 1,100 pages of manga now. My goal is to finish it this week before we head out on a two-week road trip vacation. Because I don't want to lug a giant oversized…

He was probably too expensive for the CW, but Jim Caviezel became available just in time to play the dad in Frequency and that is a gigantic missed opportunity.

Also, Penn and Teller: Fool Us.

Yeah, based on Rollins' previous television villain roles in Sons of Anarchy season 2 and the main bad guy in Legend of Korra season 3, I'm pretty glad they went with JDM.

They also told me that Dolphins Love Kids.

Great! So glad you got to go.

I saw the documentary/adaptation double feature last weekend and it was marvelous. The (original) filmmakers are currently in the middle of a 50-plus city tour doing the double feature, and if you get a chance to go, you should. As Mike says up there, the Adaptation is truly one of the best film experiences you will…

Glad I got to see them at a festival here in Houston a few years back. But maybe there will be another leg that comes around.

Just to be pedantic: the T. Rex fell exactly where I would have expected the T. Rex to fall given the configuration of the course.

It's ridiculously tilted towards upper body strength and grip strength. Any other aspect of physical fitness almost doesn't matter.

This would give me a chance to finally replace all those Weird Al cassettes I have from Off the Deep End and back with discs or digital files. I'm assuming it will include all of the albums plus various B-sides and maybe live stuff he's never recorded.

Also, the pilot of The Brak Show was the best episode of The Brak Show. Three hams will surely kill him.

"ADULT SWIM!!"
"All kids out of the pool!"

I'll give you that. The seven episodes of the first season pretty much encompassed everyone of note in that particular small town.