I will stand up as the lone defender of "The Principal And The Pauper," which ranks at least in my top 20 favorite Simpsons episodes. It totally works if you view it as a parody of other long-running sitcoms that ran out of ideas and randomly decided to change the background of a minor character for no apparent…

"My dad is not a food crazed maniac!"
*Homer speeds by the school bus having just carjacked an ice cream truck, Lisa sighs*

Barney crashing into the roof of a pillow factory and subsequently being run over by a truck carrying marshmallows never fails to elicit a laugh from me.

I have a bunch of SST Superstore mailers. I wonder if those are still valid..

Flip Your Wig is my favorite Husker Du album, but I enjoy their later period "R.E.M. except louder and with balls" stuff a lot more than the hardcore albums. New Day Rising might be my favorite if it didn't sound like it was recorded in a trash can by a deaf guy.

Mirage and Huevos are grossly underrated. Basically everything that's not Meat Puppets II is grossly underrated. Posers gonna pose.

fROMOHIO and if'n! Get 'em now!

fIREHOSE is the Minutemen if they had an even stronger and more obvious CCR influence. fROMOHIO, if'n, and Flyin' The Flannel are aces.

Oh lord, Spot. What a terrible producer. Everything he ever put his hands on just sounds thin and strained. I'd argue that every single classic SST album is great in spite of that talentless hack.

SST was amazing for about five or six years, but after Black Flag broke up the whole operation just collapsed. I can't think of very many post-1985 SST bands that I actually like. Dinosaur Jr., fIREHOSE, Screaming Trees, and Negativland are the only ones that immediately spring to mind. As mentioned in the article,…

That song inspired a murder, don'tcha know!

I feel like this is as appropriate a place as any to post this:

Kevin Smith: 20 years of striving for mediocrity.

Yes! A Game Theory namedrop! I never thought I'd see the day. If only their music were more widely available, it's such a shame that nobody listens to them.

In "worst band name" category, I nominate Extreme, ironically the wimpiest and least exciting rock band this side of Winger.

I don't mind listening to Nantz. Then again, I say that of every sports announcer that's not named Joe Buck.

I think "Shit My Dad Says" wins, by far, simply for the fact that I had to listen to embarrassed NFL announcers say, "Tune in for 'Bleep My Dad Says' this Tuesday" for an entire fucking year. I swear I heard Jim Nantz down a shot every time he was forced, presumably by gunpoint, to say that utterly moronic title.

Allen Gregory is cancelled, but now we have a full hour of Napoleon Dynamite: The Animated Series. As if it weren't already painstakingly obvious that FOX is run by Satan himself..

Is "Work It" Shakespearean because it's a tragedy for everyone involved? 'Cause it has nothing in common with his comedy, that's for sure.

I love M83, but this is the first time I've ever actually seen a picture of him (weird, right?). Does he always look like he's sitting on the toilet?