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I recently stumbled across Juggernaut and yikes!  Don't be fooled by the apology made above. Dreadfully acted, dreadfully paced, dreadfully boring. "Almost plotless" is too kind — the opening 15 minutes or so might well be the most boring opening to any film ever made.

Yes!  Hilarious book!  And there's even an entire chapter on Billy Squier and his career-killing video for "Rock For Me Tonite".

Again, by your definition, "The Dreidl Song" is pretty secular too — no talk of anything remotely spiritual.  But it's obviously Jewish, just as Christmas is obviously Christian.  There are plenty of generic holiday cheer songs — "Jingle Bells", "Winter Wonderland", "Baby, It's Cold Outside", "Sleigh Ride" — but a

A "more secular version of Christmas" is still Christmas.

Fun and nostalgic article, but I gotta say, mentioning "Christmas" in your song 8 times (not to mention putting it in the title), kinda disqualifies you from the title "non-denominational", doncha think?  I suppose it's for Christians of any denomination…

I didn't take it as pretending, I just figure Kevin is lousy under
pressure.  So when asked a question to which he didn't know the answer,
he panicked, and said the 1st stupid thing that came to mind, i.e. tree
penis (which, btw, is hilarious.)

Blessed are the cheesemakers. 

You're right — "Magic Man" doesn't rock solely on its own merits.

The idea that 3D on a screen looks anything remotely like the real world is pretty goofy.  Apart from the obvious — it's only 3D if you look directly ahead — it's so clearly a "special effect" that I can't fathom what you're talking about. 

"…viewers treated to the full IMAX 3-D experience could merely drool, starry-eyed, at the lush beauty of the planet Pandora."

Great interview — Carrie's a lot of fun to listen to.
But I've read this sentence a dozen times now and can't make heads or tails out of it:  "When you think of Paul Simon, how is his father?"
What the heck does that mean?