Say what you will about the quality of the songs themselves, but Ballard deserves some pretty major props as a producer. This album sounds pretty amazing played over a good pair of speakers.

Little by little, Peggy's totally become the sex symbol of this show. Joan's too depressing to lust over now.

Don's lapels were a little wide there as well.

"And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear."

Advertising to party DJ and Apprentice wannabe. Seems like a lateral move to me.

Holy crap, was that movie bad. I have a pretty thick skin when it comes to product placement, but I wanted to put my fucking foot through the screen when Ben Stiller and Patton Oswalt sat down to enjoy a delicious Cinnabon.

What about getting revenge on your friends? Or sashaying through the sarcasm?

I saw her at an instore a few years back and she was great; her album that she was plugging (Masts of Manhatta) is really good as well. She deserves far better than to be written off as a '90s one-hit wonder.

MCU from best to worst:

The Black Widow bit was great, but 1) it would have been impossible to film, but that whole thing was begging for a scene of the the Hulk running through the airport to stop her from boarding a plane to Paris and 2) I know several women who'd be VERY upset at the implication of Thor/Chris Hemsworth being gay.

I'd be more generous and give it a 7. It rallied by the end and was worth watching, but still some real problems: too overstuffed, the plot felt like a checklist, Black Widow and Banner love story felt forced, Ultron never really felt like much of a threat. More ups than downs, but the MCU has done better.

Definitely an agregious waste of Jule Delpy. That whole sequence just made me hungry for a Black Widow movie that's never going to come.

You got it, dude!

I can see what they were going for with Black Widow and Banner, but I really don't think it came off; they didn't have much chemistry and the whole thing felt like "well, I guess we should have someone hook up" instead of the natural outgrowth of the story.

Yeah, I don't know why they didn't just go ahead and just release the three-hour version (besides being able to squeeze in more screenings, I suppose.) It was still going to make all the money no matter what.

I got a good chuckle out of his I'm-here-too! appearance at the very end.

Spader was awesome with what he was given, but Ultron never really registered as the holy-fuck-humanity-is-doomed threat they were clearly shooting for. It didn't help that his big plan (drop a city on the Earth from really high up) came off as really odd and convoluted.

You didn't ask her about playing the tour guide in Century 21 Calling?

Now we need to hear Kevin Arnold saying, "What's that supposed to mean?"

Last summer, Everclear and their package '90s nostalgia tour played my county fair. This year, it's Sugar Ray's turn. And I was in college when those bands were popular…