I remember hearing "screenwriter's blues" (that "5 am and you are listening to Los Angeles" song) and thinking it was really cool.  A few years later Soul Coughing's "Circles" song caught on, which didn't really sound the same.  The song you linked to suggests maybe "Circles" was the anomaly. It sounded really cool,…

If ESPN had used puppets to explain its new QBR rating, I might have been able to follow along with that, too.

Eh, "3 Strange Days" was a good single, but nothing else on that album really stood out.  Not terrible, but it wasn't anything different from what other bands were doing at the time, and better.

The Dambuilders.  They had a song in the mid-90s that got some airplay ("Shrine"), and the album (Encendedor) had some strong songs on it.  It's driven a lot by the bass guitar and includes a violin in the mix.  Which, yes, I know doesn't make them for everybody, but in the prime time where MTV and radio was sampling…

"Stone Cold Yesterday" (From One Simple Word) got some airplay on MTV in the early 1990s.  It's still one of my favorite CDs; it rocks out a little more than the earlier albums.

I agree there's a difference in the audience reaction in I Love Lucy than in Two and a Half Men, but I think that may reflect the changes in how TV shows are both written and watched.  From what I remember, the plot for a typical ILL episode were story-driven, and allows the audience to be drawn in as the plot…

According to Deadline, it pulled in $540K on Friday, with an estimated $1.5M take for the weekend.

One of the first R-rated movies I paid attendance to was "Raw".  I attended it at Indian Springs Mall in Kansas City, Kansas (now defunct).  I don't expect many to care about that, except that when I attended it as a 15-year old by myself, I was one of the few white people in a packed house ready to interact with the…

"Blazing Saddles".  I was three years old.  The movie my folks paid for at the drive-in wasn't doing it for me, so I watched it on the other screen through the back of the car.

I think the show has evolved past the original premise.  In the first few episodes, the primary focus was on Mike and whether he would get away with his swindle (with Harvey's help).  But after the MPDG gave Mike a plausible cover in the Harvard alumni database, that storyline cooled off for much of the season. …

Re DS9 — during their heavy intergalatic war story arc in the later years, they put out an episode where the gang at the station was challenged by Vulcans to a game of (sigh) baseball.

Then there's House driving his car into a dinner party at Cuddy's place in last year's season finale.  The previews seem to indicate he goes to prison, but I still don't think the show's going to walk back from that.

I can't argue with the review, though I'd give it a little better grade.  It seems that the biggest task of this episode is to find a way to draw Michael and Fi closer, for the moment.  After all, he figured out something in her head about where she would go to make her final stand, so I guess he's making some…

Lemon's not a bad song, but that video…yeesh.

I can't flag anything either.  I move the cursor all over the post, and all I get for options is to "like".  No thank you.

The episode seemed to be kind of a placeholder episode, leading up to whatever is going to be the big summer reveal.  A lot of the plot points looked familiar (including, in addition to what's already been said, Michael having to play along with the bad guys in a hostage-robbery situation).

Mahna Manha deep deep dip do dee-bop de bop mahnamama dama da dop dop…

The Dude on the left looks like the Chicken Lady from the Kids in the Hall.

I would add Dave Mason's "We Just Disagree"

President Obama is a closet homeboy?*
Wow, who would have thought that could be used for a comedy sketch?