The amazing thing about Klinton Spilsbury is, most people you think of duds like Persis Khambatta or Pia Zadora or Elizabeth Berkeley, they just didn't become big movie stars like they were supposed to. They really did go on to do more movies or TV or whatever, they just bombed as the superstars their handlers…

There's no maybe about it: "The Lonely Lady" is substantially worse than "The Butterfly". I saw both of them because, at the time, I thought no one so hot could be that untalented. I was so young and naive then.

What I loved about Riklis is that he talked about his wife like she was a cocktail waitress. "This broad's talented, I tell ya. And she's got, like, a genius IQ. This dame is smart as hell." etc., etc.

"And introducing Klinton Spilsbury as the Lone Ranger!"

But the Philouza sketch is ABOUT how the music is dated and archaic. The Lincoln-as-a-founding-father sketch was funny, among a million other reasons, BECAUSE Lincoln wasn't president then.

Mark Rivers, currently of Mouse Rat, wrote the theme song.

The book's argument, and the argument that I was making, is that people have become accustomed to thinking of propaganda as a negative, harmful thing that only one's ideological villains engage in. Communists use propaganda; Americans simply champion the eternal truths of democracy and freedom. Racists produce…

It's absolutely about money (digital coloring requires no materials other than a computer) and time (it's quicker and easier). But the end result, nine times out of ten, is incredibly shabby and sub-par. I'm usually the last one to bitch about technological advancements in artistic media, but it's astounding how…

"maybe Gaiman doesn't have any"

I mentioned them here once before, when they got signed to Metal Blade, but I've been a fan since they started up. Especially since American black metal bands seem determined not to sound anything like black metal these days, I'm glad to see someone hoisting the throwback flag, and they've got killer chops to go with…

The Danzig album was already reviewed on the front page last week.

Yeah, Ballou's production seems to create a lot of division — I know people who love him as a musician, but hate him as a producer. I thought this one sounded pretty bland compared to "Traitors", but I'm not a huge Misery Index fan, and a colleague of mine who is feels exactly the opposite.

Look, it's simple: he is the son and the heir of a silence that is criminally vulgar.

I pick "hate him".

There are actually a ton of reggae, dub and dancehall stars whose real names are very toff-sounding. They change 'em for a reason.

More fun with I'm-positive-these-are-incorrect closed captions: I've watched that episode a dozen times, and I've never questioned that they guy is named "Choppy". But the closed captioning says his name is "Johnny".

I can't remember precisely, but I think in the audio commentary they mentioned that while they were filming "Peanut Butter, Eggs & Dice", Tom Kenny had a time conflict because he was doing one of his animated shows — "Dexter's Lab" or "Powerpuff Girls" — and just couldn't carve out the time.

The theory was David + shorts = great episode, with the corollary that David + pants = lesser episode. So "Heaven's Chimney" doesn't disprove the main theory, but it does disprove the corollary.

Goddamn, that's hilarious. It just slays me. I didn't realize that was Ennis, though.

"Watch Us Have Sex" is not from season 4. It's from season 3. In fact, it's from "Heaven's Chimney"! One of the very episodes discussed above!