The weird thing is, Starr Hill was relatively successful in my neck of the woods, the Northern Panhandle area of WV. According to a rep from the Wheeling area AB distributor that I talked to, it was the downstate AB distributors that controlled distribution in the other 75% of the state that killed it, as they just…

While AB didn't acquire it, their distributors in West Virginia screwed up the introduction of Virginia's Starr Hill brewing to the state so badly, that they've pulled out of WV entirely. It has to be something in the culture.

And if you like Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet, Yep Roc records is reissuing their albums on 9/16 with bonus tracks. I've already preordered them.

Daddy drank! For the government!

I was in Virginia Beach earlier in the summer, and Herr's Ketchup Flavor chips were available in Ollie's, which is sort of like a smaller Big Lots. My nephew likes them, and my mother fell in love with them after having some.

I've read where Vodka was Johnny Carson's drink of choice, and it didn't take much to turn him into a raging drunk. Even he said about his drinking days, "I'm a cheap date." David Letterman also said that he'd seen Johnny get pretty nasty with just a couple of drinks in him.

If Vinyl had returned and Canavale's character was killed off in the first couple of episodes, and Romano's character became the lead, it would have been a dramatic improvement.

Yep, his Grandmother lived across the alley from my family for over 30+ years. He was in our town recently with his parents, and stopped by to visit with my mother and sister. It was a big event in dullsville Ohio.

That reminds me of a story about the March On Washington, which Heston and James Garner attended. Garner was walking the mall around the Lincoln Memorial with his wife on one arm, and Diahann Carroll on the other. Needless to say, the executives at Warner Brothers were apoplectic about that, and called Garner's…

According to the Nick Tosches book, Dean like Jerry, was more of a Percodan man. He was introduced to them by his road manager, who told him that they were good for headaches.

I remember reading in David Letterman's Playboy interview in the mid 80's, where he and Merrill Markoe had rented a house in the Hamptons for a couple of weeks around Labor Day. He stated that he was frantic to get an antenna up so that they could watch the telethon, as both of them considered it amazing television,…

I remember reading where both Dean and Jerry were over 6 feet tall, but Jerry would crouch, and had the heels of his shoes shaved, so he looked more like a kid. I would imagine that he and Johnny were close in height.

He also had another great turn with Ed O'Neill in the Dick Wolf reboot of Dragnet, as an unhinged murder memorabilia collector who crossed Joe Friday's path, as he was investigating a serial killer who was restaging the Hillside Strangler's crimes.

"Box Office Poison?"

IIRC, Some 60's band from Liverpool has a soundtrack from a documentary about them coming out on 9/9.

SCTV's Dave Thomas had a great comment when David Letterman asked him about the differences between Canada and the USA, and it's influence on his humor and SCTV. He replied, "The West is rich, Quebec has it's own culture, as do the Maritimes. Guys like me sat in our families' TV rooms in suburban Toronto watching…

Donald Duck was the best Disney cartoon character, simply because of his bad temper. He was always the "Anti Mickey", much to my delight.

Wow, Franco managed to make sex seem dull. After seeing him act and direct before, the bigger question is, why am I not surprised?

Actually, I hope that if Christ existed, he'd pick up that bullwhip that he went to town with, purging the moneylenders from the temple, and put it to good use on shitheads who pull crap like this.

As a monologist, I would put Ron White right up there with Alan King in his prime.