Mitch Hedberg said "fuck" all the time, but its use in his "special song" joke is perfect.

Ah, yes.  That Session 9 "fuck you" is so good.

I guess I've also used terms like "alt-country" or "outlaw country" (or just "real country") in self-defense.  In music writing, though, "alt-country" seems to be a catchall label attached to anything that might have the barest element of country music, even if it's just a steel guitar or a singer with the slightest…

In the recent Nerdist podcast featuring Case (which I couldn't recommend more), she talks about this and says her face is made up of odd angles and doesn't look the same in person or from one picture to another.  Frankly, I think it'd be weird if someone looked the same in person as they did in press shots where…

And then the entry for the album on Case's Wikipedia page was edited accordingly, as per the Comedy Bang Bang podcast.  One of the best CBB episodes I've listened to in a while.

I guess because Neko Case is an attractive woman (Case herself seems incredibly ambivalent about her public image; I've seen interviews and photo shoots where she looks like she just woke up, and ones where she's all professionally dolled up.  Either way, I think she's beautiful), the attention she gets around here is…

Yeah, I'm generally not a fan of commenters reviewing a review, but I was skeptical of this review as soon as I saw "alt-country," which seems to exist solely as a music-journalism phrase and not something people use to describe music they actually listen to.  But apparently Neko Case and, say, Silver Jews are both…

Please, Obama Youth, don't do a beating or a murder to me!

Yeah, I read Black Hills (and Drood) before I knew about Simmons' views, and now my initial take on it probably bears some rethinking, although I've rolled my eyes at some of the dopier sexual stuff in his books regardless (which is a given with most baby-boomer male authors, at least for me).  Who knows how much I…

I loved The Terror and, up until a few months ago, was looking forward to his upcoming book, The Abominable, just about more than any other book due out this year.  Then, after seeing some internet comments indicating that Simmons had some problematical political views, I started reading posts on his website's forum…

Also, it should be 15-layer lasagna, a fact I felt the need to check for no good reason.

David Cross?  I thought that was Fred Melamed.

Seems like I recall reading somewhere reputable that the revelation that he was Stephen King's son was a calculated PR move, not a scenario in which he was "outed" despite his best efforts otherwise.

I'm still trying to get over the Brooke and Andre breakup.

When I was a kid and watched them on TV, I always preferred Siskel over Ebert.  In print, however, and outside of the movies, Roger Ebert eventually became a bona fide role model for me, particularly in his later writing about illness, mortality, and his perspective on life as a pragmatic Midwesterner.

I think the episode would have been more romantic if it ended with Adam jerking off on Hannah's grateful face.

I was absolutely convinced that the ending, with Adam running shirtless to Hannah's "rescue" as the tritely romantic soundtrack urged him on, was intended to be ironic — particularly after the way Adam was portrayed in the previous episode, and especially considering how Hannah had called 911 on him earlier in the…

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I was surprised to see that DLM episode listed favorably here; I honestly thought it was one of the worst I've heard. Nobody seemed to know how to play the games, and everyone was off his game, joke-wise. Thune was the most bearable, but Graham Elwood was just annoying, and I couldn't stand Troy Baxley, who sounded…

I think it was comedian Anthony Clark who warned of schemes that involve a thief tossing a baby at you so that they can then steal your belongings and pick your pockets.  If anyone tries to hand you a baby, SWAT IT TO THE GROUND.