I'm going to guess earlier, mid-80s

What's missing?
every Kinks album before 1971. Something Else, Arthur, Village Green … nowhere to be found

now do Classical Gas!

anybody who is worried that the new journalism culture will be more idiosyncratic and decontexualizing doesn't know enough about the history of newspapers. There have ALWAYS been rags. The NY Post? It's not just a scandal rag today - Alexander Hamilton started it so he could snipe at Jefferson every day. Oh, and ever…

Alexander

a friend once made me sit through the Hot Chick, starring Rob Schneider, and asked me not to MST3K it so I didn't ruin her experience. That person is no longer my friend.

their show is on IFC Channel. Not that I've ever watched it.

no, ain't a repo man, the shame is mine. I both got the surname wrong and typo'd the Tight-Lips. Mea culpa.

so who snitched on us? Was it Tip-Lips Joey, or Jimmy the Snitch?

CATS AND DOGS, LIVING TOGETHER! MASS HYSTERIA!

taint: another solid choice

Tagging along …
White Man in Hammersmith Palais by the Clash

hmm, this calls for a top-5

the Corner was adapted from a journalistic book of the same name written by Simon and Ed Burns, similar to Homocide: Life on the Street. The Wire was completely fictional, but a lot of the characters and stories were taken from Simon's experience as a beat writer and Burns' time as a B-More cop and later a…

and stay outta the Woolworths!

people said I was daft for building a castle in a swamp. But I built it anyway! It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one! It also into the swamp. So I build a third one! That one burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one STAYED UP!

seeing that clip just reminds me of how eye-gougingly shitty SNL's musical guests have been in the past few years. Someone has to tell Ol' Man Michaels that he's not going to bring in the young, hip crowd by booking Ashlee fucking Simpson.

"Fling is currently only available over-the-counter in California"
so, uh, elsewhere you need a prescription?

the ladies love to break off a piece of that Kit-Kat

"You have the bigger dressing room"
"What, bigger than the puppets?"