Redbox does often suck, but due to said suckiness I've seen a wide selection of awesomely terrible movies I'd have had no reason to see otherwise. My current favorite: Brother's War, a movie about Masons in the Wehrmacht and RAF banding together to fight a villainous Soviet colonel played by the creepy Michael…

I was given In the Heart of the Sea as a Xmas present last year, and I could not put it down once I started it.

I like the Vegas Resort commercials
"Because what happens in Vegas… SHOULD BE HAPPENING TO YOU!" as the shot pans to a wide-angle of Alan Thicke in a pool, arms outstretched.

Your description is right if we're talking about 4th grade Little League. If you'd actually played competitive baseball you'd know that the game is mostly mental. You don't just "wait" for a ball to be hit to you. Instead you would have to maintain a constant state of readiness, knowing exactly what position to be…

Watching baseball isn't necessarily the most interesting thing, I'll admit. But playing baseball is a fucking blast, especially if you're an infielder.

I don't have the knee-jerk hatred of soccer that my father tried to instill, but I never played the game and don't find it all that interesting. I did, however, tune in to the championship game four years ago while doing something mundane like ironing laundry. After seeing Zidane's headbutt I became much more…

That, and "He peed coffee in my face from his mouth" were the two funniest lines for me.

Even though I'm well past the target age where joke songs about lesbians and whatnot appeal to me, I still buy ever new NOFX album and enjoy them. I don't like Coaster as much as I liked Wolves in Wolves' Clothing, but it still is a fun listen.

I thought he was talking about Billy "Ain't Life A Bitch" Cole.

Best - I got snowshoes, which is what I asked for. I never get what I ask for, so it was quite the surprise.
Worst - Dunno, maybe a tin of chocolaty popcorn during the Yankee Xmas thing we do at my grandparents'. Not a bad thing to have by any means, but I really had my eye on a new wallet/leatherman.
Weirdest - my…

Whereas "Fairytale of New York" is inarguably great, my favorite Xmas song is the Vandals "Oi to the World" off of Christmas with the Vandals. That album was originally released only on vinyl, and I bought it even though I could only listen to it on my parents' record player.

I also prefer Seger. I actually saw him live a couple years back in Milwaukee. Frankly not a bad show at all, though I felt pretty young in comparison to the rest of the crowd. Seger looked like he had more than a few miles on him, but overall put on a pretty tight show. The funniest part was the saxophonist, who…

Every October for the past four or five years I've told myself "this is the year" but I still have not made it down for the Fest. It's probably my biggest failure as a person.

I just saw the Christmas special last night, in lieu of the normal Thursday night comedy block. I agree that not knowing "everything works out" makes the ending of the show so much more painful. Also, despite my calloused heart and manly contempt for emotion, I still let out an audible "awww" at the end of the…

My first time seeing Springsteen was an insanely moving experience. It was at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee, during the Rising tour. My parents had gotten tickets with another couple, but the wife couldn't go and I got the ticket at the last minute. They weren't great seats, but the experience was unlike anything…

ET - Wisconsin teams have had a lot of choking, but aside from the two Rose Bowls there was the Badgers' surprise run to the Final Four and my personal favorite, the hockey team winning the National Championship in Milwaukee.

NHL '94 was ruined for me, along with almost all two-player competitive video games, by a friend of mine in high school. I didn't know dick about NHL hockey teams, and this sadistic bastard convinced me that I ought to be the Hartford Whalers since they were a better team than the Red Wings. Suffice it to say, I…

I had a brief period of SeaQuest fanaticism as well, and it experienced a resurgence in college when I discovered repeats on SciFi. My roommate at the time thought it was hilarious and rightly mocked me, but he also gave me a SeaQuest hat that his older sister had somehow scored during the original run. It's a…

I would obsessively tape "Red Dwarf" episodes on Wisconsin Public Television and watch them over and over. The best times were pledge drives where a marathon of four or five episodes would be shown over the course of a Saturday night. I'd beg my parents to make a donation so I could get one of the sweet, sweet…

My favorite AC/DC cover band is called the Bon Squad. Of course, they only play Bon Scott-era songs.