Speaking as a huge and unapologetic fan of Archie comics, all of those '70s Archie comics cartoon adaptations are fucking awful.

True fact: Rosita was
originally some sort of fruit bat, but her wings were rather unsettling and
they did away with them after a couple of seasons.

Spring Boehners is easily the most upsetting film in the Harmony Korine canon.

The important thing here is that Craig is now SPHINX Commander.

Who wins in a knife fight between Edmund Gwenn's Santa and Big John Coll's Santa?

Yeah, old-school zombies seem ripe for revisiting. I'm amazed nobody's made an anti-corporate horror spoof with this twist. Great point about The Matrix. That does come pretty close.

He really is. It’s a shame his roles come saddled with so much racial baggage, because the guy was genuinely funny. I can absolutely see why Moe Howard reportedly lobbied for Mantan to join the Stooges post-Curly (and of course got the kibosh from studio execs who thought America wasn’t ready for a black Stooge).

I’ve seen a lot of Bela Lugosi movies. They’re mostly as garbage as their reputation, but I’ve never seen the man give a lazy performance. Whether he’s plastered in ridiculous gorilla fur, being squandered as a creepy butler or humiliating himself chasing Sammy fucking Petrillo around the jungle, Bela always gave…

It’s kinda dull, but the hook of John Carradine and Nazi zombies is enough to win me over. Voodoo Man is probably the better Carradine zombie movie. In that one he’s Bela’s shambling, barely verbal henchman.

I'm quite fond of Revenge of the Zombies. It isn't very good, but it has John Carradine holed up in the Louisiana bayou building a zombie army for Hitler. Mantan Moreland's in the mix too.

Is that the Paul Ryan thing?

Someone's working on mashing this up with the Breaking Bad credits, I presume?

Well, you just got me to listen to Newcleus for the first time, for what that's worth.

As does the mind-blowing Thai pop cover by Duangdao Mondara & Chailai:  http://www.youtube.com/watc…

Which Rush?

That harmonica solo is oddly John Popper-esque, as I think about it.

I can't really fault the band. The show itself was fine, but this was the first stop on the tour and they'd had vehicular difficulties on the way to the venue. They got there late and didn't have time to fine-tune a lot of their stuff, and they're an act that requires a fair bit of fine-tuning. Still, it got a bit…

Seconded. (At length below, even.)

It should be!

I love that whole The Ghosts That Haunt Me album. It's a damn shame that group is written off as an embarrassing one-hit wonder. I'll grant that they're pretty quintessentially '90s, but I don't see why that should be a problem. They made some very solid, thoroughly of-their-era songs that deserve a better reputation…