Isn't having Kermit on the show already product placement for the Muppet movie?

This is not a surprise, either. I mentioned the manager thing in a review of Cohen's live album, and she started spamming me with incredibly lengthy (and crazy-sounding) emails about how evil Cohen is and how this was all a conspiracy he cooked up to ruin her life. She did not sound like a well person.

To 50 years of further development in popular music?

I still have the VHS copy not ten feet from where I'm sitting right now. There are so many gloriously idiotic things happening in this movie, but I think my friends laughed hardest at the unintentionally erotic sound effects during the slow motion chase in the village of the crazies. Which you can watch right here: htt…

Not sure I hear the Arcade Fire influence in the sample song — more like a mix of Stars and Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros. But I do kind of want to play Shadow of the Colossus again now. If only it didn't make me feel so guilty every time…

This is as good a place as any to post this, I guess… Bassnectar gives a pretty good summary of the origins of dubstep here: 
http://coedmagazine.com/201…
It's concise, easy to follow, and puts the whole thing in a bit of context.

The moral: Always go with your first impulse.

I know I'm in the minority, but "mostly tedious, a barrier between players and the story" sums up my reaction to most of Uncharted 2. I haven't tried 3 yet, but 2 felt like a good movie interrupted by a mediocre game.

He also played guitar on Azeda Booth's In Flesh Tones, which is very much worth looking into even if it sounds nothing like Women. Plus some ambient recordings, and contributions to other Calgary projects… People liked working with him. This is really sad.

Book one of Quixote ends with the narrator essentially challenging any other author to take up the tale. It's true that he thought there was a particularly inferior sequel and that he mocks it in the second part, but it's not exactly "unwanted misappropriation," more just bravado on the part of Cervantes.

What about Moore's run on Swamp Thing? Rewriting the history of an existing character, as part of a corporate gig intending to make that character profitable again by attracting a new audience.

Virtute. It's Latin.
(Of course it would be Latin…)

"What I'm about to say is a complete fairy tale."

Well, Calgary is oil rich, and the people here generally like big, flashy things, so… Yes?

Zardoz is one of the few movies I'd genuinely love to see a remake of. It's full of good ideas and sporadic moments of brilliance, but the execution just isn't there.

Even in the 90s, Nirvana got played alongside Bush, Stone Temple Pilots, Collective Soul and other bands that were in no way opposed to the Nuge Crue rock star philosophy. For the most part, radio isn't about constructing a coherent hagiography that reflects and contextualizes the internal conflicts of the artists of…

Take that Newscorp!

Kim Mitchell isn't a mediocrity, he's straight-up terrible. But, the video for "Go For a Soda" is almost enough to make me not mind that song (http://www.youtube.com/watc… )

I think it's pretty obvious why '90s bands are played on classic rock radio. When Nevermind came out and you got your Zeitgeist shift, Led Zeppelin IV was 20 years old. Now, Nevermind is 20 years old. To the audience that radio wants to court now, all of that music is just as much part of a distant musical past. It…

And self-awareness doesn't make a criticism any less true.