I'm so glad you did that.

The Basques! Over here blowin' up shit to gain recognition and independence for their mountain empire!

I still got the lunchbox from 'Fuckers!

Some of the best unintentionally poignant shit in television comes from the final gasps of the variety show: "Pink Lady and Jeff", "Shields and Yarnell"…Hell, even the 'Tim Conway Show' wasn't that great, especially when they had audience members come up to improv with them.

I think I surprise no one when I say that "Soul Train" was nowhere to be found on t.v. in Oregon in the '70's. So my first exposure to the show was actually hearing it being referenced in songs.

These days they'll do clip shows on PBS, Sunday afternoons. They're always hosted by those same young ladies with the shit-eating grins, much older now, interviewing other talented young folks from the old show.

What about "Mad" Max Madsen, and his Indian-sounding psychiatrist who worries for Mad Max's mental health, his prices are so damn low?

And besides, in what way is it a fuckin' tragedy to realize belatedly that you like something?

Hear me out…
I fail to see why Lawrence Welk wasn't mentioned here, rounding out the holy trinity of variety shows aimed at one specific audience. When it was in black and white, it was more or less just another variety show, but when it went to color, it became some sort of heavenly waiting room for old white…

Look who's sleepin' her way to the middle!

Sorry. Late back to the party.
"Babylon Sisters", "Hey Nineteen", the lyrics (but not the music) to "Time Out of Mind", "My Rival" and the Larry Carlton solo on "Third World Man" save 'Gaucho' for me.

MAYBE YOU ARE ALL HOMOSEXUALS!

Naming your child "Audio Science" versus naming your kid "Pilot Inspector": which is better grounds for calling in Children's Services?

It's a two-way street, cupcake!

Damn. I was about to ask whose saliva it was.

I still don't get why 'Aja' gets all the love. It and 'Gaucho' share second place in my personal pantheon of great Steely Dan moments.

According to the liner notes on 'Terminal Tower', Pere Ubu did indeed release the single "The Modern Dance b/w Heaven" in August 1977.

Queen's "'39," which is a great song and also: he never does quite get around to saying which century (or millenium) he's talking about…

I love "Low" unequivocally until about halfway through side two where it becomes an Eno only album.

"Sub-mission" is fucking stupid.