Fellow dad here. I say, if they're making fun of my shorts, then they're not the kind of friends I want to have after all.

See what you're heading for? It's not too late to stop!

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PUDDING

Also, everyone please ignore that the header pic is of all the leads in Reservoir Dogs sitting and talking.

I'm a philistine, but Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction are still my two favorite Tarantino films. Seeing both of those movies for the first time was exhilarating, something that seemed new and fresh: I had no idea what was going to happen next.

NERD BURN

They'd probably do one for one of their Joshua Tree concerts too, yeah? Or are they doing that at Bonnaroo?

Auugh! A sad bear!

Dude, black dress socks with shorts is like the #1 qualifier for being a Dad. Ahead of having kids, even.

Godammit, me too. He's seriously been doing this shit since Achtung Baby and every fucking time I fall for it.

And two years later, apparently that lesson didn't sink in.

Auuugh! A puma!

I always want to get up in arms about the reductive label "Dad Rock", then I remember that I am a Dad, and my favorite bands are U2, Pearl Jam, and Wilco. Then I get sleepy, and decide to put on some dress socks and cargo shorts.

Like Mike and Omar taking out the trash.

Dak has one of the saddest arcs I've ever seen.
"Right now I feel like I could take on the Empire myself!"

Does he? I've seen Empire dozens of times and I never caught that.

He's had quite a couple years with meeting his idols. Got to meet U2 in person (he's similarly adorably giddy) and now Mark Hamill.

Not since that asshole ditched him to fend for himself with an AT AT bearing down.

I was kind of in denial about Phantom Menace when it came out. Last column I mentioned that privately, I knew The Matrix out-Star Wars-ed it that year. But seeing CTHD really cemented it. "This is everything Phantom Menace should have been but wasn't." It hit so many of the same themes, or at least the themes you'd…

It really is a shame that Tesla doesn't get enough credit for Electroman and his enemies, Rubberman and Waterman.