I don't know when you first watched the show but the context might have helped. Yes, it goes off the rails but in 1991 it was still stranger, if not necessarily better, than anything else on television.

Dr. Teeth: I thought, until the lousy ending, the style of the filmmaking and Carell's performance patched over the formulaic stuff. I think I gave it a B-, which still sounds about right to me.

Better you hear it from me before anyone else
Curtis Mayfield doesn't get a full entry? When all this is over I sentence you to spending more time with The Impressions and his first few solo albums while reading Craig Werner's _Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of…

The Other Scandal Of Olivia Newton John
Just throwing this out there because I know it. (And, if I recall correctly, it's not on the Wikipedia page.) John ran into a lot of trouble in Nashville when she started recording country music. Years before Keith Urban it was considered inappropriate for a fur'ner to be…

I was surprised by how much I liked APOCALYPTO. In fact, I spent much of 10,000 BC wishing I was watching it again.

Waid's run is up there with Byrne's as far as post Lee/Kirby FF goes.

With a vengeance.

Nathan, I have that issue somewhere. Remind me to loan it to you. Maybe you can do a post on it.

Somewhere down the line.

Will this film ever stop tearing us apart?

Early warning
Maybe everyone should have been clued into this policy when they gave CHINESE DEMOCRACY that 3 star review back in '02.

Nathan Barley, you say.

Answer to the above:
Busey.

"I have no idea how to explain what is happening on this red carpet right now."

I subscribed to the Library Of America's subscription service—awesome, but it really needs a better website and better customization—and the first thing I got was a bunch of Steinbeck.

Yikes. We're looking into it.

I don't know why everyone is focused on the sex…
…when the real news is that Gene Simmons might have CHEATED ON HIS WIFE. Scandal.

I've long been curious about Mary Shelley's THE LAST MAN, her 1826 novel in which all but a few people have been killed in a 21st century plague. (But not curious enough to, you know, read it yet.)

Oh, I'm really enjoying it or I wouldn't keep it up. The only trouble is I keep looking longingly at the books I want to read that aren't for this project and I know I'm going to have a hard time squeezing any in that aren't fairly short. (I will get to you someday, JONATHAN STRANGE AND MR. NORRELL, THE YIDDISH…

Right. Those elements date it, but they're also pretty fleeting.