How do you get gold-plated panties in a bunch? I know gold is malleable, but still….

Wavering Radiant was solid. How about the new Magnolia Electric Co. "Josephine"? That's an amazing album. The new Patterson Hood album "Murdering Oscar" was excellent. The new Dinosaur Jr. "Farm". The new Wilco was pretty solid. Again though, we're all largely pointing out the primacy of the album format in…

maybe I'm missing something, but you can already buy entire albums with the cover art (if not liner notes) from iTunes and eMusic and you can download entire albums (often with all artwork) from places like Soulseek. i've downloaded like 14 new albums in the last two days. whole albums even. i think in the world of…

all things considered, i'd much rather watch horror about zombies than any other monster. vampires and shit are fucking laaaaaaame. i think the ceiling for zombie movies is higher than that of pretty much any other monster and even the floor is usually pretty entertaining, unlike say the bottoming out point for…

I'm not given to huge bouts of nostalgia and I liked this book as a kid, but at this point I really couldn't tell you anything about it. That being said, that trailer makes me really excited. That looks amazing. Reminds me a bit of Pan's Labyrinth.

This isn't a movie. It's a Myspace page.
Ouch. I think that might be the most scathing thing I've read in a movie review on here. But, it made me laugh.

and does anyone play football tuxedo?

who plays the creepy adopted son of Nicholas Cage who gets involved in drugs for one scene, even though it's never mentioned again?

Abortions for some, tiny American flags for others.

i hope no one in montreal is expecting gill to be a standout defenseman on his own. the guy was tremendous here in pittsburgh and i think he is underrated, but he has to be a complimentary player with a solid positional guy next to him. gill and scuderi were perfect partners; scuds provided the positional play and…

who's the puppet masters? the Heritage Foundation? Newscorp? Dick Cheney? all of the above?

well that's what you get for being a goddamn Flyers fan.

Swamp Thing. That's how you follow that. The artwork is jaw-dropping.

Calvin and Hobbes is probably my all-time favorite work of fiction. I started reading it as a very young kid (6 or 7 probably) and, even though there hasn't been a new strip since I was 12, I still adore it and regularly re-read the collections. I loved it so much as a kid, but I think I like it even more now,…

From Hell was my first major stumbling block after getting into comics in the last year or so. It's so enormous, the story-telling has to be puzzled out a bit, the graphics are sparse. It all works, but it takes some effort. Generally, if you're trying to get someone interested in something, you should do it with a…

I don't care what anyone says, ZMF makes me laugh every time. You think Worcester, Mass is bad, try hanging out in the area of Pennsylvania between Pittsburgh and Altoona. Maybe I've been watching the X-Files too much lately, but I'm pretty sure the government is experimenting on these kids around here. There's no…

what was the old Onion article about how no one showed up to Burning Man because everyone forgot the date? yeah, that applies to this deal.

oh yeah, i meant to mention that i work at an independent record store about an hour from Pittsburgh. for those not familiar with west/central Pennsylvania, it could easily pass for Kentucky or Alabama if you didn't know where you were. ICP is easily one of the biggest and most consistent sellers for us. one of…

The Insane Clown Posse is probably the definitive white trash experience. If someone asked me "What's white trash?" I would definitely show them that infomercial. The infomercial plays like a joke made by someone who thinks the bad really sucks. I also love that the "juggalos" are "the most misunderstood people in…

the interesting thing to me about criticism of any kind (and especially film and tv) is that it reveals as much about those watching and critiquing as it does the film/show and its creative staff. the patterns might be imagined, but the important thing is that you see them, regardless of the intent of the directors…