I think "The Point" is the greatest Hippie Kid's Record ever. It doesn't really care if you get the "message" even as it beats you over the head with it. It's also a fine argument for buying vinyl, you get a comic book inside so you can follow the story. And most of the songs are pretty damn good. The cartoon is a…

I thought the skit could go brutal. But I see the problem with that.

The basic conceit of this article — that it was too early in Bush's administration to properly mock it — does not jibe with my own memory. I specifically turned the show on hoping for a good ole Bush Bash and was disappointed with everything but the opening theme. There was powerful loathing out there for his person…

Adult Swim is Sturgeon's Dictum on the airwaves. For me, the shows have ranged from "That's the greatest thing I've ever seen on television" to "That trust-fund kid has a Mac and he's gonna use it" with very little in between. You'd think there'd be room for a wide range of contributors in the "98% Crap" column.

Where are your weird records? You're telling me that you worked in a record shop and now you're a paid critic, but you don't have any weird records nobody's ever heard of to get rid of? No field recordings of insects? No singing cop records? No records pre-smashed up by the noise musician because art? No Russian…

I used to troll a Republican website. I'm not proud of it. One day, I announced that I was going to give them all a present and I deleted my account.

Presidents can only dream of the fantastically corrupt powers that a local politician may exercise. A bad President can hit you right in the wallet. A bad Mayor can kick you in the teeth, throw you in jail for more teeth kicking, and make you look like you were begging for it in the local media.

When I was young, access to R rated features was characterized by an urban/rural divide. If you lived in a rural area, you couldn't see anything if you were underage. If you lived in the city, no theater would refuse your money.

Why quote a mere "movie" when you can quote the most quotable movie ever made?

I don't get it. I have this on CD. What's the point?

Anyone ever ride the Cyclone at Coney Island? I find it's best to keep your mouth shut during the ride so that you don't break your teeth.

Here are two hamburgers. One of them was brought here from a McDonalds. The other was dispensed from a vending machine in a government office. The packaging has been removed from both. Your challenge: Determine which burger came from where. You have sufficient time to eat and digest both before you give me your answer.

For me, the pleasure of the horror genre is to enter a fantasy world that is plainly worse than the reality we inhabit. A world where you must believe in the church or you will be terrorized by unseen sprites meets my qualifications nicely.

It barely matters who "started" throwing punches and rocks — a Trump supporter or a Trump protestor? Who can tell?

Good catch. Instead we'll call them "writers who received a proper education in the English language before publication."

I'd second "Nova" — it's fairly conventional and short. Reading "Dhalgren" before that is like reading "Gravity's Rainbow" before "The Crying of Lot 49."

Some of the best science fiction authors double as mainstream fiction authors: Brian Aldiss and J.G. Ballard spring to mind. Hell, I like Ian Banks' mainstream fiction better than his sci-fi. Those English writers…

Wait a minute. I'm old, so I just assumed that Twitter was a useless load of crap. But now you're telling me that I can read the words of John Lurie there?

One thing to keep in mind: The government isn't beginning to meddle in the realm of health care expenses because it cares so very much about poor people in the emergency room. The government itself is getting killed by health care expenses for its employees. Many sectors of government have seen health care expenses…

Listening to this sort of stuff just reminds me of how great the band Broadcast was. They'd do a genre-hybrid number on old "White Noise" and "United States of America" records from the 60s, but if you stripped off all the Musique Concrete you'd be left with nothing but a perfectly serviceable pop tune.