They sing
"no one better get in my way". Whatsamatter? They don't like people getting in their way??

Don't forget
Schmoyoho's excellent vocoding of one of Dr. King's prophetic speeches: http://www.youtube.com/watc…. "These powerful days…"

mere words?
"His best writings on the Holocaust have a bracing immediacy that uses mere words to insist that the tragedy never be forgotten. "

Could it be…
that Verhoeven and Neumeier split the difference, playing up the perils of fascism while subtly examining how militarism and its fictions are sometimes necessary?

sexual Jedi
"Banging" a lot of women these days? That's something I might have said when these shows were current, but as you continue to watch, I think you'll find many things in Seinfeld that wouldn't fly today. Does that make us all a bunch of PC milksops? No, it makes us more humane. In fact, people with class…

meaning?
Todd- What did you mean "the America of my childhood feels like a place that shouldn't have existed, and that was the 1980s"? I grew up then also. If you mean simply that things have changed, then I'll second that.

Oh my God
They killed Kenny!

other exotica
There is a great deal of Japanese, Korean, and to a lesser extent Chinese 50s-60s era pop music that you can say basically defines this genre. They have catchy tunes, use the "East Asian" pentatonic scale (major and minor variants), and have that distinctive "surfer sound, i.e. post-big band, light…

The "Kingdom of Xu"…
does not exist… Mr. Scott probably meant Wu, whence came Zhou Yu. Kong Ming (aka Zhuge Liang) came from the Kingdom of Chu and Cao Cao from Wei. Wu + Chu + Wei = Three (Chinese) Kingdoms. As for Korea…

Did anyone notice…
Tasha started out by mentioning the "extensive, vastly popular Empire of Japan"? Looks like someone's gotten caught up in anime's Greater East Asian Economic Co-prosperity Sphere of love…

Three words: 'girlfriend Candice Bergen'

I would kidnap Gene Shalit for my love slave… any Albanians out there reading this?

Patrick Stewart's awesomeness
Patrick Stewart desn't even play different characters: Dune, TNG, Shakespeare… all the same role for him. Amazingly, he rocks it every time. I dub his character Mr Awesome.

Patrick Stewart's awesomeness
Patrick Stewart desn't even play different characters: Dune, TNG, Shakespeare… all the same role for him. Amazingly, he rocks it every time. I dub his character Mr Awesome.