The official anthem of snow days in the South, or it should be. Doesn't matter if it's only half an inch of snow - everything must close and everybody gets a holiday. IT IS WRITTEN.

22, and definitely because of my age. I can't many people much younger than me would or should get 'K'.

Just wanted to say thanks for doing these lists - I've found some of my favorite music over the years from your year-end singles picks.

I discovered Tintin through the owner of our wonderful local bookstore. She used to set a aside a new copy for me every week, and sold them to me for a $1 each, which I now realize was way under the list price (even way back then). She'd lived abroad most of her life, and apparently felt it was her duty to spread the…

The music divides us into tribes!
You chose your side, I'll chose my side.

Thanks, Ghaleon!

I also saw bits and pieces of this on a flight. I wonder if anyone at all saw this for any other reason. Was it created solely to inflict on people in the air, in order to make the experience even less pleasant? There seems to be no other explanation.

I got the Mary Blair Little Golden Book 'I Can Fly' for my son, and thought, "Wow! I love this artist. I need to track down what else she did." And then forgot to ever do so. Now I find out I love her work even more than I thought I did. (They really had some top-notch artists on the Golden Books through the years -…

Wait - that's official art from the show? I thought it had been posted for purposes of parody. Okay, I'm officially on board with the hate.

I think I see the planning strategy on this one: "We can start saving money by getting rid of all these fancy designers, and just have my 14-year-old nephew whip up something in MS Word. That kid's a whiz on the computer - he even has his own Facebook!"

It might not be very elegant from a scientific standpoint, but Fahrenheit just matches human experience much better. If 40+ = "Oh fuck, it's too hot", you are wasting a whole lot of perfectly good numbers. Fahrenheit takes "Oh fuck, it's too hot", sets it to 100, and "Dear God, it's too cold", and then puts everything…

I am honored and amazed that the comment thread on my post has brought forth one of the great revealed truths of the universe: John Hodgman must play Mr. Peabody. A handful of people who should be working have spoken!

The Origin Story
I actually saw the first Peabody and Sherman episode the other day, which did have the origin story - I'd never caught on before that Peabody was supposed to OWN Sherman, like a boy normally owns a dog. Meant to be a cute joke, but basically, Sherman is Peabody's slave. It will certainly be a more…

Only Burger in Durham. There is no other burger - it says so right in the name.

In Soviet Russia, musty old man smell makes YOU leave the train car! Wait - that's what you said. Man, this really IS harder than it looks. Jackoff Smirnoff is really overdue at this point anyway…

Hey, North Carolina also had Dawson's Creek! They still run Dawson's-Creek-themed tours in Wilmington. Sad, sad Dawson's-Creek-themed tours.

cameleopard, are you me? My mom also asked me if I'd heard of Chunk. Maybe they said it all weird on the show…

Well, have as much of a go at American TV as you want - I definitely didn't mean to defend it! Just enjoying the idea that people on both sides of the Atlantic are thinking the other side lives in a utopia of creativity, just because we're only getting the Greatest Hits versions of each other's output. I can remember…

@Davey - I had exactly the same experience with UK TV. Especially prior to cable, a British show had to be pretty damn good to make it to the US, so I naturally thought England produced nothing but pure quality TV from top to bottom. Which I now gather might not be the case…

Let me clear up the misconceptions -
We Americans all live in either New York or LA. (Although there's also The South, where it is still 1930, and Florida, which is just a series of resorts along the cost, much like Mexico.) We are louder and brasher than normal people, and we all carry guns at all times. Because we…