Happy New Year, y'all. My resolution is the same every year. Sometimes it lasts a few days, sometimes just hours.

When George Harrison died I listened to "Beware of Darkness" and… got something in my eye.

Fittingly, the next word on the page is "surrender".

Oy, God! Oy, Man! Oy, God! Oy, Man!

So many Star Wars fans have a Boba Fetish.

This may be a good place to ask this: I was in a record store years ago around Christmas, and they were playing what sounded just like Sinatra singing the Nativity story and about Herod and all that. As I recall, the text was not directly from the Gospels but someone else's solemn prose. The melody was mostly in the…

Send it back!

You killed Patty Donahue, you son of a bitch.

Henry Beard, anyone?

I can't believe no one has mentioned "Murder, My Sweet" (aka "Farewell, My Lovely").

The shots fired by one Serb, Gavrilo Princip, don't constitute an act of war by Serbia. You could more reasonably blame Austria-Hungary for its intolerable ultimatum to Serbia, which it knew would be rejected. A-H declared war on Serbia, and the dominoes began to fall as everyone involved knew they would.

Everybody Knows This Is No Hair

I don't even own a coffin.

I think I'll listen to "Songs to Aging Children" again. Pay no attention if I happen to get something in my eye.

Let's not forget crazy Mildred in Lady in the Lake.

Until about 20 years ago Maryland had a middle school in the DC suburbs named for Roger B. Taney, the author of the infamous Dred Scott decision. It was finally changed to Thurgood Marshall.

In a while will the smile on my shirt turn to plaster?

A Quantum of Stole Us

So is there an AV Club bump? Books, prints, music, and a game:

The Spy Who Copied Me