During their initial meeting, Hauk picks up Plissken's service record and recites 'S.D. Plissken, American, Lieutenant, American Special Forces Unit 'Black Light'. So yeah, Plissken wasn't a colonel. And his name wasn't frigging Robert, either. I'll pass on this flick.

I did that last year, going through a marathon session of MGS games starting from 3 and ending with 4. (I've got MGS Rising but burned out on MGS before I could get to it.) I'm okay with Solid Snake, but I'm a really big fan of Big Boss, and playing the series in chronological order shifts things more toward Big…

I was 17 in 1981 and remember that time well. It was amazing to me that Whip It was getting Devo played on mainstream radio, and they were showing up on tv, as well as getting a ghost appearance of sorts in the Heavy Metal movie. It looked like they were getting ready to bust out of their college radio niche once…