Blur was hardly a thing over here. Americans were offered Blur and Oasis, and we said, "Yeah, we can only take one, and we choose the one that's a fuckin drag."

That would have been a handy rhyme to have on hand when they were writing the "Rimmer Munchkin Song" for Red Dwarf.

I once thought the same way, but in the end? I would actually rather not watch Kate Beckinsale in skintight leather if it's surrounded by the rest of those movies. That is how much I dislike them.

It is pretty alarming just how many consistently working terrible screenwriters there are. But I guess the thought is…"Well, you got movies that were at least developed, so that's more than a lot of people have done."

I would love to know who did the faux-Laurie Anderson kind of song for those 80s/90s Whatchamacallit commercials.

Ducks are pretty aggressive sexual predators, though.

I like it, but I'm always surprised to hear people say it's his best. I suppose it is the least Tarantino-y of Tarantino movies, but then I think…well isn't Tarantino-iness the point of watching a Tarantino movie?

My story about Grosse Pointe Blank is that I didn't see it until about 2002 or so in college. A year or so earlier I had written a script for a comic book that was about a hitman (hitmen being a very popular subject for teenage boys interested in writing comics and screenplays in the 90s, of course). Then when I…

Aw, thanks. I am intending to give it a shot. I mean, I've already got all these ass-grooves worked into the old sofa that is the AV Club.

"For you, the shit you saw this morning was the greatest day of your life. For me…IT WAS TUESDAY!"

I think my moment of realization might have been The Lawnmower Man, or possibly some kind of Ernest movie. I know my video game realization was LJN's X-Men.

I listen to a female-oriented rock show on the local college radio station on my drive home from work Wednesdays. You might want to check out the playlists. I am also pretty out of what's new, but I've found some cool stuff there:

And so, of course, we all just put in the obvious substitutions to hit the requirements. "Ooh, what if I turn this S into a dollar sign? Uncrackable! Maybe add a '1' at the very end. You've done it again, master encryptionist!"

I still have my iPod Classic so when it autoplays it goes by artist, so I think it's A-Ha, then ABBA.

Well…yeah?

Digital blackface? The app version of when you were a callow schoolchild who tugged at the corners of his eyes and did the "Me Chinese, me play trick" song?

The one that gets me, and I brought this up the other day when Funko Pops came up, is one that's Sheldon from Big Bang Theory dressed as Spock. How many degrees of abstraction is that? Spock -> Person cosplaying as Spock -> Superdeformed version of person cosplaying as Spock.

I am a man, and when I tried the "male" filter, it got rid of my long hair and made me look like…I can only describe the face as "drunk Pierce Brosnan."

And I'd do it again.

Uh…maybe they MEANT it to be about the tax returns, but this is pretty bad timing. "Call me a chicken, will you? I'll launch those nukes right now! We'll see who's chicken then!"