Agreed 100%. And I don't even enjoy award shows. I just like rooting for my favorites and reading about the winners and losers afterwards, kind of like how I feel about college football.

You're not wrong. That said, I like seeing people I admire and projects I enjoy get recognized. It just doesn't happen often enough.

As a nerdy teenage cinephile, I used to care about the Oscars, until 1994, when Forrest Gump beat out both Pulp Fiction (a long shot, I realized even back in 11th grade) and the four-quadrant-pleasing, perfect-in-every-way Shawshank Redemption. When Titanic beat L.A. Confidential in 1997, that was it. I was out. I…

They weren't ONLY a swing band, that's probably why they didn't seem committed or fully authentic. But of course "Zoot Suit Riot" made them popular, and that ubiquitous green-covered CD was actually a compilation of all their swing tracks from three or four previous releases.

I was driving my car in Gainesville, Florida, in 2001, when I first heard "Fell in Love With a Girl" on the radio. I had to pull over into the nearest parking lot, no lie. It hit me that hard. I don't remember a time before or since when hearing a song for the first time inspired such a visceral-yet-positive…

I still like Squirrel Nut Zippers! Granted, I was in college in the late '90s, playing sax in a ska-punk band, wearing thrift store suits and two-tone spectator shoes, and going to every ska, swing, rockabilly, and surf show I could. I loved those intertwined scenes, and the women were gorgeous, dolled up in…

Co-starring Alura Jenson?

Yeah, Flash has a kick-ass Rogues Gallery. Captain Cold is an awesome antihero. Mirror Master has one of the coolest power sets of any comic book character, good or bad. Pied Piper played a Queen song (of course "The Show Must Go On") to destroy an evil invading planet, sacrificing his life in the process — how…

This year's San Diego Comic Con-exclusive action figure set included a repainted Leader-scale Jetfire from Transformers (pretty big to begin with), Roadblock from G.I. Joe, and other Joes redecoed into Matt Trakker from M.A.S.K., Leoric from Visionaries, and ROM, plus some tiny Micronaut things.

Clicked this link expecting James Cameron to produce a gritty Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light reboot for AMC.

Mine too, but I haven't seen them in two years or so, with the deluge of short-lived new flavors always coming out. Last time I checked the Lay's website, they weren't listed anymore.

This is bullshit. With all seriousness and not a bit of irony, I submitted a bunch of great flavor ideas, hoping one of mine would win and it would be my ticket out of this library. Who wouldn't want chips that taste like Italian Hoagie, Cuban Sandwich, Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup, Lasagna, Meatball Parmesan,…

Completely off topic, but I used to love Herr's ketchup chips, but I never find them anymore, even at Wawa, which stocks plenty of other Herr's flavors.

Orlando suburbs. But we'll be in Miami this weekend, and a trip to Roasters and Toasters is in order.

Mmmm, sable and sturgeon! When we went to New York on our honeymoon, I was in heaven at Ess-A-Bagel trying all the fancy smoked and cured and pickled fish. Down here in Florida, you can get lox (really nova), you might find a jar of pickled herring or some sad whitefish salad, but that's it. You have to travel for…

Damn, I love food (the dying delicatessen holds a special place in my heart), and writing, and food writing, but I've never read Trillin. You have convinced me!

My non-practicing Jewish family always had a jar of Vita herring in sour cream sauce or wine sauce when we did a spread of bagels with cream cheese and lox. I love the stuff. Always have, always will. Costco often sells a huge (64-ounce?) glass jar of excellent quality Blue Hill Bay brand herring in wine sauce,…

Russ and Daughters! That episode was pure food porn for me, and I'm definitely stopping there whenever I make it back to New York.

"Manuka honey? And so reasonably priced! Buy me that, Abby!"

I feel like if it was just a Blue and Gold movie, it would be too much of a bummer for half the team to die at the end after what would essentially be a comedy. But if it was a Justice League International movie with a few more cast members, that would be acceptable, like if Ted sacrifices himself to save the team or…