Reciting those lyrics in a bored monotone is usually good for a laugh. I will say that they have managed to achieve a certain immortality as really being one of two fin de siecle bands (the other being Creed) that people tend to associate with the rapid decline of popular and rock music.

This is one of those times I really wish I'd used this account as a gimmick commenter.

The Pumpkins were my favorite band from my high school years, but the twin failure, as I saw it at the time, of Adore and Machina were definitely disappointing after Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Adore's better than I thought at the time, but I still can't get into Machina.

There was a Mexican prison riot a few days back as well; he could be conflating the two.

There was apparently a big snowstorm in the Philadelphia area that day and a lot of the local networks (3, 6, 10, probably both PBS stations) broke into local programing to show it live. I was something like three when it happened, so I don't remember watching it, but apparently that's how a lot of kids saw it.

The stange thing for me is that I didn't find the first season of Chapelle's Show to be all that funny. A lot of the sketches seemed about par for Mad TV. The second season is such a different story though. It's like he capture lightning in a bottle: there are whole episodes where there isn't a single sketch that…

Count me as someone who is also a bit mystified by CK's apparent coronation as genius or visionary. He's an excellent comedian and his methods of selling his art are to be applauded but he largely leaves me cold. To me, he's like a funnier David Cross with a bit more humility, but I still prefer Patton Oswalt.

I used to like Maher's programs better before I realized that he's just as mean spirited and as, and sometimes more, ignorant than the people whom he's arrayed himself against. I've also never been a huge fan of his guests; the only ones I remember standing out were Mos Def, Christopher Hitchens and P.J. O'Rourke, and…

HDTGM is my favorite podcast but I'm not thrilled with the inclusion of guests from the films they're discussing all that much either. Like you wrote, sometimes it works (The Room podcast specifically was fascinating) but other times, like the Superman III episode, it detracts from it.

They all can't be Daniel Day-Lewis and even he's been in some less than great films (Nine comes to mind).

Occasional, maybe I'm just getting older and my tastes are changing but a lot of Colbert's shtick just isn't funny to me anymore. The show, I'm sure, still has its moments, but I'm just generally not in the mood for it.

I'll respond to you here instead of below because disqus is fucked.

I think the Election novel stands up better than the film does. Probably a minority view, but I can't stand Matthew Broderick or any of his characters (Ferris Bueller's a boderline sociopath in my eyes).

I was halfway through reading the review and I thought to myself, "man, this reads like one of Rabin's old reviews," and sure enough it was. Aside from the gay panics and whatever other progressive meme he's adopted this week, the man's a really good reviewer.

I vaguely remember that. I thought she was his half-sister, but I looked it up and it was consensual sex with his biological sister. Plays for the Calgary Stampeders now. Weird story.

I'll take DS9 over BG. The former had a rough start but got much better and stayed strong throughout (with a few bumps). The latter took off running, started to skid in the middle and by the end you were left wondering what the hell you'd just invested all that time in. I do appreciate Battlestar Galactica's harder…

Generally the back to nature crowd isn't insisting that all of society drop out along with them. Many, though not all, continue to use modern medicine and some forms of technology. The notion that everyone should revert to primitivism is what seems odd. Even in a survival situation, wouldn't you want to keep the…

Sometimes I wonder if the people concocting these movies exist in our reality. An all-American running back, surefire first round draft pick with cancer would be a feature of ESPN every other week not to mention the local sporting press which would never shut up about it. The university's football boosters would shell…

Don't forget the treatment of AIDS in the early days of the outbreak. It seems to lead to the near cannonization of its victims, including homosexual men who appeared to never have sex with their boyfriends, but chaste pecks on the cheek.

Yeah, didn't she win best actress not terribly long ago? Although, it has to be said, winning an academy award doesn't necesarily guarantee one's longevity as a tio flight actress: witness Helen Hunt and Hallie Berry and their career trajectory. Heck, I'd argue that we'll probably see a similar decline from Sandra…