Incidentally, Delp and Barry Goudreau recorded a tune titled "Rockin' Away," released shortly after Delp's suicide, that's a better "Boston" song than anything the actual band named Boston has put out in a good 30 years.  Look it up on iTunes (don't be a dick and rip off Delp's heirs).

First album I ever bought with my own money.  I certainly don't listen to it every day (or, er, every year) any more, but I still have those moments when I suspect Brad Delp might have been the most underrated singer in the history of rock music.

First album I ever bought with my own money.  I certainly don't listen to it every day (or, er, every year) any more, but I still have those moments when I suspect Brad Delp might have been the most underrated singer in the history of rock music.

"Hired Goons" has to be my all-time favorite Simpsons bit.  Still awesome.

"Hired Goons" has to be my all-time favorite Simpsons bit.  Still awesome.

I was in a bar in Austin when this show first aired (or maybe it was the summer rerun, but either way it was long before syndication).  At the end of the episode, when they ran the long montage of Homer saying "D'oh!" over and over again, the whole damn bar picked up on it and provided the dialogue.  Those were the…

I was in a bar in Austin when this show first aired (or maybe it was the summer rerun, but either way it was long before syndication).  At the end of the episode, when they ran the long montage of Homer saying "D'oh!" over and over again, the whole damn bar picked up on it and provided the dialogue.  Those were the…

This would be a great point, but I have you on a technicality:  the magnificent "History's Greatest Monster" joke made it to the screen long before the 21st Century.

This would be a great point, but I have you on a technicality:  the magnificent "History's Greatest Monster" joke made it to the screen long before the 21st Century.

The SCTV box sets were selling for $5 each at Dollar General stores a few years back.  Needless to say, I snapped up a full set.

The SCTV box sets were selling for $5 each at Dollar General stores a few years back.  Needless to say, I snapped up a full set.

You have to get over the no-budget cheesiness and crappy video quality, but if you can manage that, there is some astonishingly-good stuff on the SCTV sets.  The "Godfather" parody, "Great White North Palace," "CCCP1," etc. episodes absolutely still hold up.  The great weakness of all these shows as time passes is of…

You have to get over the no-budget cheesiness and crappy video quality, but if you can manage that, there is some astonishingly-good stuff on the SCTV sets.  The "Godfather" parody, "Great White North Palace," "CCCP1," etc. episodes absolutely still hold up.  The great weakness of all these shows as time passes is of…

I actually remember watching that first show and first "bed" skit, and thinking, "Really?"  All the "I'm like (so-and-so) with a touch of (such-and-such)" got lame pretty quickly.

I actually remember watching that first show and first "bed" skit, and thinking, "Really?"  All the "I'm like (so-and-so) with a touch of (such-and-such)" got lame pretty quickly.

Damn kids… still no love for the granddaddy of them all, the mighty fighting Dot from Adventure.

Nice catch.  I hadn't picked up on that last bit.

How disappointing.  I was expecting an interview with Wookiee-bearded bassist Lee Sklar and his heretofore-unknown brother Chewie.

Yep.  Made the mistake of watching the next-episode preview this week.  It killed any actual anticipation I might have had for seeing the full thing.

"And it is the South.  There's just gotta be hunting rifles, M4A1 assault
rifles, shotguns galore.  If not in homes or laying all around the
place where there's bodies, I refuse to believe there's not businesses
that sold such items."