But without it, we wouldn’t have Patton Oswalt’s brilliant takedown of it (which I have put on many a Christmas mix for friends): (NSFW!)

The 30 Worst Absolute BEST Christmas Songs Of All Time, Ranked. There, fixed it.

I thought this was going to be a stealth relaunch of AV Undercover. Because TMBG’s “Tubthumping”, Superchunk’s “In Between Days” and Flock of Dimes/Sylvan Esso’s “Don’t Dream It’s Over” belong on this list. Oh, that’s right, they’ve all been removed.

Look, your Halloween playlist only needs to be one song, and it’s this obscure little gem:

I, too, came to praise Oscar. It’s not perfect, but it certainly has its charms.

I saw LL with De La Soul, Rakim, and...Juvenile all backed by The Roots this past Sunday, and it was a banger. They did a lot of “50th” tributes. They should have just filmed that instead.

Well, if the Magic 8 Ball movie needs a theme song, here’s an obscure gem I found on a random comp from about 25 years ago that will do nicely:

This belongs right here:

Sean Gunn and Ted Raimi pair up to solve murder mysteries on their brothers’ movie sets. With Clint Howard as their mentor/boss/guardian angel. Make it happen, Hollywood!

Has the man learned nothing?

“They’re not going to watch my whole oeuvre just because of me.” Incorrect, sir! Also, I asked him at one of his recent live shows which characters he’d like to revisit, and he brought up Brisco and Sam there as well. He went into more detail with Brisco, having it set in the 1920s, with the grown children of the…

Any clip with Gruber, Root, Posehn and Foley belongs in a museum somewhere.

I was just coming here to say “Please stop shitting on the Critters franchise, thank you very much. You’re probably confusing it with Munchie.”

Because Evil Dead is legitimately great?

So, two more months before I can cancel my HBO+ subscription. Awesome.

I know Advance is a media conglomerate not based in the South, but I still had to chuckle to myself “Heh, too racist for Alabama. Quite an accomplishment.”

That’s what they’re supposed to be, but it’s been a self-congratulatory mess for decades now (makes the Oscars look positively progressive in comparison). The Peoples’ Choice, AMAs, Billboard Awards, those are all supposed to be the popularity contests. The Grammys strive to be the “prestigious” version of all that by…

Many, many years ago, I won the Grammy office pool by voting for the worst/most obvious nominees (sometimes it’s the same, occasionally not), while my co-workers stuck to their hopes and dreams and favorite artists. I enjoyed a nice lunch with their money. Haven’t tried that trick in a while, but I bet it still works.

Agreed. Pop is about the time I checked out and went “maybe everyone else is right”. I still think Achtung Baby slaps, even if I really never need to hear “Mysterious Ways” ever again.

Which sounds...OK. But as is totally on brand for them, the reason is never “we thought it would be fun”, but “pretentiousness, pretentiousness, money money money.” Sigh. It’s been really hard defending them for a long time now.