Sorry to hear about the car accident; hopefully everything works out all right for you regarding that.

Was Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island one of those movies made at the same time as Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers, the one where Shaggy is turned into a werewolf and then forced to race in a bizarre supernatural motor sports circuit, or the one where Scooby, Shaggy, and Scrappy go to work at a boarding school for young…

Have Space Suit, Will Travel is pretty great, although I haven't read that in a long time.  Any suggestions on where to start with Heinlein if I haven't read anything beside that and All You Zombies, should I ever decide to read some Heinlein in the future (which I'll probably get to someday)?

I heard Zack Snyder didn't add any gratuitous slow motion action scenes to Superman, so you were kind of witnessing an historic moment in the history of Zack Snyder's filmography, so to speak.

I re-read As I Lay Dying for the first time since high school when I had to read it for English.  As far as "real" literature goes, Faulkner is one of my favorite authors, and thus I wanted to read it on my own time, and I imagine that the ill-advised James Franco film adaptation reminded me that I'd been meaning to…

Between this and the new Kanye album officially being released, this Tuesday is probably most anticipated day of the year for me as far as pop culture is concerned.  Definitely looking forward to reading this.

I probably learned more about science from The Magic School Bus by the age of five than I did from every science class I had in elementary school, which partly speaks to the fact that my elementary school teachers mostly didn't give a damn about science, but I think it says more about how fucking awesome The Magic…

I can't say that my dad playing TNG reruns and DS9/Voyager episodes all the time was as big to me as you, since I never really watched it too much past the age of seven or so, but on a tangentially related note, I feel like my dad definitely acted as a pop culture mentor for my interest in science fiction/kinda by…

Yeah, while my parents both played a big role in the pop culture that I consume today, they were mostly through awesome things that are pretty popular in the first place, like good popular or progressive rock bands, Star Wars, or Peanuts holiday specials.  Because in addition to legitimately awesome things, my parents…

I couldn't even beat the first level, so I never really even tried to play that ugly piece of shit.

This is kind of late of me to notice @avclub-620982009915db2a0b4a49e224bad30c:disqus , but when I said "I'm not really sure this post has a coherent point," I was referring to my own post, not yours. I definitely wasn't trying to criticize your post or whatever, so my bad if my post came across like that.

@avclub-792b765aa995daf26cf6f17f519c949d:disqus I think it depends on where you are in NC as to how conservative people are.  But there's still some crazy shit going on.  First off there was Amendment One last spring, now you've got people like McCrory talking education reform that seems to be more about eliminating…

@bcfred:disqus Wait, so the Democrats are trying to keep down the number of voters in a demographic that tends to vote Democrat?  Because fuck actual logic when you can just use absurd incoherent rant logic, right?

Oh, I wasn't trying to imply that nobody's comparing Obama to Hitler over this issue, just remarking that I myself hadn't heard it and concentrating more on what the media was saying than people on reddit and such.  But rest assured, people comparing politicians to Hitler tends to piss me off, unless they're…

Because Obamacare is totally as bad as the Holocaust, right?

I dunno where you live now that you're hearing all these comparisons, but in the US most of the outrage I'm hearing is from Fox news (and presumably the other conservative crazies like Limbaugh and Beck) who seem to have forgotten that Bush started this shit.  But yeah, there's a shitton of "Obummer (or some other…

I have no idea what Vampire Weekend would have done if there was no money involved.  If Black Sabbath weren't going to make millions upon millions from this album and any attendant tours I don't think they'd have made this.

Is that guy like 4'6"?

Well, if you want to hear an automatically glowing review of this and every other tired album that washed-up rock artists put out, you can probably find one on VH1Classics' "That Metal Show."

Honestly, I don't see that at all.  I just don't think Heller liked this album, and from what I've heard of it, I'd have to say that C+ is fair to generous.  True, the AV Club doesn't exactly focus too much on the narrow minded "classic rock is the best" crowd and your comment below shows that you're clearly not one…