The world will be a happier place when everbody discovers they should be listening to Christmas music all year round.   That should have been everybody's pop culture discovery of 2011, assuming they hadn't already discovered it.

Cronos.

Beware of VD.

Critics have been grading rap on a steep curve since the very beginning, going back 30 years.  I can't see it ever ending.   Looking forward 30 years I fully expect a hip hop record from the year 2041 will still have to be brain-meltingly stupid and lazy to get less than a C from the average critic.

Zing!

I'd like to figure out how to beat the protoss deathball without neural parasite, which is useless since patch 1.4. It continues to elude me.  And don't tell me fucking mutalisk is the answer.

Just read a nice book about Grant and Sherman.   You keep nasty Joyce.

Glenn Greenwald is the best political commentator working today.  Firedoglake is good too.  Their coverage of the making of the healthcare "reform"(lol) bill was the best anywhere.  Jeers to The New Republic.  TNR is pretty much a running joke for commentators of all political stripes.   It's such a shameless…

Finally get to know the Bowie catalogue.   I've been putting that off for years, and for no good reason. I don't know shit about Bowie beyond the classic rock staples and the Ziggy album, which is quite good.

Watch "Lifeforce" and you too will cry tears of diarrhea.  That movie was a unique sci-fi anti-classic.  It had a weird anti-magic.  "The Darkest Hour" looks like it might be a worthy successor.   Gold dust aliens.

It's a new "Lifeforce" for the young generation.    The torch has been passed, as Ginsberg noted when he heard Dylan's "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall."  Only instead of a torch of poetic brilliance, it's a torch of cinematic shittiness.  I weep as Ginsberg wept, but my tears are diarrhea.

Total bullshit.  The problem with applying this editing process to a religion is that there's no effective way to place a limiting principle on it.  The unavoidable result is that you end up cherry-picking the parts you like at any given moment and ignoring the rest.  If you're going to do that shit then I have to…

Booooooo.  I'm an atheist and I have far more respect for people who BELIEVE a religion than those BELIEVE IN a religion.   If you're just going to pick and choose which parts to believe then why bother at all?      I guarantee you if I ever have some religious awakening and become a Christian I will believe the whole…

Linus is cool, but he's sort of half a person.  Lucy is the other half.  Those two characters are written as polar opposties and both have gaping holes in their personalities.   Everything Lucy has, Linus lacks, and vice versa.   It's similar to that episode of Star Trek(The Enemy Within) in which Kirk got split into…

I give Schulz a pass for the icky Christianity of the Christmas special because the Great Pumpkin concept has a distinctly pagan feel.  Very Celtic pre-Christian, like druids and shit.  So there's one pagan Peanuts special, and one Christian.   It balances out.

Analogous to The Carpenters' catalogue.   It kept getting played and played year after year just to fill space, until people finally realized it was actually kinda good.

Yes.  Samara Morgan lives in it now.  So posh compared to that nasty well.

Ironic, since the Army turned him away because of one bad ear.  Think of all the Krauts he could have greased.

No, but I did see the Anthrax In The Municipal Water Supply ending.   The director hated it, but Jimmy insisted on it.

"Got a wife and kids in Bedford Falls, Jack.  I went out for a ride and I never went back."