This is a really good idea for a show. Too bad the execution is off. I love the idea of delving into the nuts and bolts of managing a pirate ship and making it work as an ongoing enterprise. It had to be a hugely complex and delicate task to pull off.

From the thumbnail I was sure this was Dr. Melfi.

Yeah, her torso is basically a keg, with the ass being the lower part of the keg. Wearing high-waisted tight pants with a short jacket is not a good choice for a person with that body type.

The pants give her a granny ass. Not my cup of tea.

Mindy's ass looks gigantic in those pants.

I too am a dedicated REM hater. They've been wildly overrated from day 1 of their careers.

I was just pondering how the recent hipster embrace of Hall & Oates would have been affected if Braff had packed this movie's soundtrack with H&O tracks instead of the usual indie rock.

Guaranteed moneymaker: Rosemary's Baby, Found Footage Platinum Edition.

No. The quote is "above-average for this sorry genre," which is a long way from saying it is above average as a movie, and crappy movies aren't supposed to get bonus points for belonging to crappy genres, otherwise romantic comedies wouldn't deserve the D's and F's that they get. Crap is crap. Give it a D or an F.

C+ is supposed to mean slightly above average, but the review basically says the movie sucks. If it sucks, grade it below average.

Would you consider using the name Acid Penis, alternatively spelled Accid Penis? It's druggy and weird and sexy, which is all good. Somebody should use it.

I'm pretty sure he's white.

Blood Ceremony is a little like that, though they don't play super slow. They have a lead flutist and describe themselves as "a folkier Black Sabbath."

It has to be chronological within each band. You cannot have your Master of Reality CD sitting adjacent to your Mob Rules CD. Ozzy Sabbath and Dio Sabbath shall not be intermingled. It's like a law of physics or something.

Das stimmt.

The Day The Thing Cried . . . .

It was way more than just the popularity of punk that turned me off as an older listener. If you were a kid who heard punk in 1980, it was this crazy, innovative and totally noncommercial music that got no respect from the average dipshit. In the 90's, it was none of that. Nobody thought of it as crazy and…

Are you sure? Perhaps irony is so obsolete that references to irony have themselves become ironic.

If I were a lame-duck President, I would start growing my hair out after election day, and on my last day in office, I would get a mullet haircut.

I could no longer enjoy punk by the 90's. I was old enough to remember the days when you played your punk records knowing with absolute certainty that these songs would never be on top-40 radio or in heavy rotation on MTV or be heard blaring from frat houses. In the 90's, it was the opposite. You listened to punk…