I loved the phrase "a hideous man in a weasel mask" because it implies that not all men who wear weasel masks are hideous. "Joe's a great guy, and he has this really cool weasel mask on his living room wall that he wears when he goes out in public."

Nice to see a write-up one one of the best musicians to pick up the bass guitar. Thank you AV Club.

And the actor who played the Air Force pilot was Bob Dornan, who would go on to Congress, where he would go on at length about the evils of homosexuality in his speeches. He also substituted for Rush Limbaugh from time to time. Some of his rants were fun to listen to at times and he had little influence on…

Yes was the third band (after KISS and The Beatles) that I felt the need to own all their records, and Chris Squire was one reason I picked up the bass guitar. I agree that prog-rock doesn't get covered a lot here, but Yes is pretty well known by music fans who don't necessarily follow the genre. Stereogum and…

Does this mean that Lynnfield is the suburb of sin?

When I read about his role in Veronica Mars I couldn't place him because I couldn't remember anyone in the show who was in a wheelchair. Then I found his IMDb entry and saw that he was in the episode "Un-American Graffiti". It turned out that I couldn't remember him in the show because he appeared in the series'…

I'll always think of Beth Dover as Cramsey, the porn actress who liked dragons too much for Roman's taste in Party Down. I followed her career for a couple of years afterwards but she wasn't in anything that caught my eye. I hadn't heard much about her in a while so I thought she faded away. I'm happy to learn that I…

This episode airs today at 4:30 PM EST on FXX, and Trash of the Titans airs at 5:00. Just a heads up.

Saw the first of what should be one million showings of "Gone Girl" on HBO. Also saw "Mulholland Drive" for the first time in a while, and "Never Let Me Go" for the first time ever. I'm in the "good, but not that good" camp with the former. I felt the same way about "The Big Lebowski" until I saw it last weekend, and…

I'll say this now - American Hustle will be to the 2010s what Crash is to the previous decade. An overrated movie that won't stand the test of time. People will watch it in five years, and will think to themselves "this was nominated for an Academy Award?".

I've been to other sites that have reported on the Charleston shooting. On at least one of them, the spambot's post was the only one that I wouldn't have downvoted.

I jumped out of my chair when I heard Angela Bassett say that line the first time I re-watched this movie after that Fatboy Slim song came out. One of my all time favorite "so that's where it came from" moments.

I agree that Strange Days is a mixed bag at best, but there's one scene that always gets me. One of Ralph Fiennes' clients is confined to a wheelchair, and the tape/disc/whatever is a shot of a guy running on the beach. He passes a young woman and she says hello to him. The playback ends right afterwards, and he sees…

"The smooth grooves of this song alone will make it to at least number two!"

The one I wanted to see was Midge. The implication was that she drifted into a permanent state of addiction and likely didn't survive, but I wanted to see her pull a Freddy Rumsen and come back as someone who kicked the habit.

When I read this guy's statement the first thing that popped in my head was that I like tomatoes more than lettuce, so it didn't bother me that much. It's when he went on to say that he wasn't a "social engineer" that he lost me, because his statements as a whole reveals that he is a conservative white male who's been…

The would-be Jai Alai magnate that went to Dartmouth with Pete.

Hasn't the Internet always been that way?

I'm looking forward to the new album. I just wish they were playing in Boston and not a few places outside of the city. It looks like they're avoiding all the big cities in the Northeast.

I would have made room for Death of a Party and/or Strange News From Another Star as a representative of Blur. I'm ok with the tracks they selected from 13.