I know. When I didn't see any Fantastic ghosts, I thought, "Are you cussin' kidding me?"

Doo doo doo doo doo?

As well as the band getting sick of each other in general, George feeling like it was still the John and Paul show even though he was writing quality songs (and maybe resenting John for badmouthing the Maharishi after the bad trip to India), Paul being the same old kid who loved silly pop music and old R&B records…

I can totally see how, and it makes sense, but it seems like if that was the case, it would have wound up on Turn of a Friendly Card instead.

I watched that, like an idiot, for some reason, and now I'm not sure which is the worse Bad '80s Audio/Visual Artifact With A Duck-Based Music Video.

I was thinking that too, but I'm wondering if it wasn't chosen because it's not explicitly about surveillance; I've heard interpretations of it as about a jealous God or a jealous lover as well.

Odd that they have to clarify it as 'in college football,' though, since that's the only place we ever get good enough to collapse in epic fashion; in men's basketball, we remain at a constant level of suck, and in baseball, it's our destiny to get to the first round of the playoffs and then lose to South Carolina…

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1. Yeah, that seems to be the way of things; one ridiculous breakout year gets you a ten-year extension, and then you just stop trying and spend five years cashing your paychecks and going to the Meineke Car Care Bowl. Which is also how #3 usually seems to happen (though…

It's not just 'disappointing performance,' it's 'surprising display of competence followed by pants-shittingly embarrassing loss.'

I've always loved the arcane mysteries of coach employment and politics, at least when it doesn't involve my team.
What got Texas to lock in Mack Brown until 2020? A trip to the championship, once, years ago? Why did hiring a fuckup like Gene Chizik actually work for Auburn for the span of a single year? How do Kirk…

As a Clemson homer (fans of the old Danny Ford is God/Block C Clemson blog will recognize my avatar as Hatdog), I hurry to point out that NC State lives to upset, and seems to save their best play for games against Florida State (see last year) and Clemson. (And UNC, because you always hate your rivals.) I won't…

Given how every other Superbowl halftime act seems to create this awful maelstrom of controversy that nobody besides the FCC, the NFL, the bluenoses of America, and the respective celebrity of that year cares about…

@nummymuffincookoobutter:disqus I have no actual clue, being American, but I'd guess a icy-pole is either a popsicle or one of those frozen-corn-syrup-and-flavor pouches you get when you're too broke to get popsicles. And I'm hoping "milk bar" is a euphemism for "strip club."

Capital punishment means he'd come home in a pine box. I think it was corporal punishment America flailed and cried about.

I hope We are Men uses 'Jocko Homo' as its theme song.

@avclub-e4854c5608c54d96a6b3f76b9414a746:disqus , I think there's electronic handclaps dubbed in?
(I just really don't want to listen to it again to find out.)

Agreed, somehow. I hate the rest of John Mellencamp's discount-rack Bruce Springsteen aesthetic, I hate the sense that absolutely everything seems like pandering ("Pink Houses" feels like someone trying to write a clever-yet-inoffensive satire on how "gee whiz, that's America for you," and it can't hold a candle to…

If someone was gonna pick on Lenny Kravitz, I'm surprised that this was the song they chose. Then again, the first time I heard it was on Guitar Hero, so maybe I didn't get overexposed to it enough to hate it.

POINTLESS ANECDOTE:
Two members of Thursday were guest lecturers at a music business at college, discussing the business dealings of tours and sponsorships. I spent most of the class fading in and out of consciousness, but I heard them mentionHere Come the Warm Jets for some reason, and after class, I talked with them…

Use your knack, darlin'—
Take one step back, darlin'.