I've always admired the fact that he decided to take himself out of contention after a while. I'm surprised Julia Louis-Dreyfus hasn't done the same since she's won about 70 Emmys in her time.

Mine looked like Lawrence Tierney to the point that a friend of mine, when watching Reservoir Dogs for the first time, exclaimed "Jesus Christ, is that your dad??"

Shaft really wasn't all that great in the first place. I'll take the Mack or Black Caesar over it any day.

And Snake dropped the f-bomb that shook Canada politely.

Can't watch at work but does Suspiria make the cut? The colors in that are remarkable.

True. Forgot about that era because back then all I did was listen to cd's in the car so I was happily removed from the daily negativity. I just relied on Shaughnessy for that back when I actually bought the Globe daily.

The cd player and aux jack in my car no longer work so I'm at the mercy of the FM dial. Generally, I just listen to WERS but sometimes they go a little heavy on the neo-folk so I swing over to the sports stations and almost immediately regret my decision. Imagine if the teams here were actually consistently bad?…

If you'd listened to sports radio in Boston over the past week, you'd come away thinking that the Patriots would have their hands full with the Dewey Jr. High squad. That said, I think the Pats win fairly easily for the reasons you mentioned. Pittsburgh's defense just isn't going to be able to contain all the…

I've seen them with Neko and Dan twice and both shows were great. No knock on Kathryn Calder but, as good as she is, Neko is a force of nature.

Neko looks to be part of it. I've seen the NP's with and without her. Without her is very good but with her is all kinds of outstanding.

The last couple minutes of Bleeding Heart Show are among the best minutes ever recorded by anyone anywhere. Even those University of Phoenix ads couldn't ruin it.

Then he sees Kazaam and swears to become a genie.

So Sterling K. Brown is playing Rabin?

Darnielle didn't update the song when the Tampa Bay Bucs took it all the way into January. He's waiting for Bill Gates to finally spearhead that Heaven 17 revival.

Between Juliana Hatfield and Buffalo Tom appearing on this show, I'm guessing someone on the staff was once a Boston-area resident?

They had to keep her around. She was their only in to hang with Tino.

They did. They just called it Arrow.

Stallion looks as though he'd have been right at home with Zartan and the Dreadnoks back in the day.

This obituary succeeded in making me miss Roddy Piper. So there's that.

Murph will also be performing on the spoken word stage.