Urban legend says he is Usher's biological father, not just his godfather. Look at them side by side and it lines up.

This should be a weekly feature, Solo Career. Take a shot at each canonical instrument in standard band or expanded band makeup: bass, drum, piano/key, sax and then one column for best solo by a nonstandard band instrument.

Lyrically has there ever been a song so almost archaeological in its depth of metaphor as "Dogs?" The dogs bred just for hunting are a personification of the paranoid assassin focal character, who is a metaphor for a British businessman, who is emblematic of the entire British conservative community and government of…

Fun Home!

Ever heard The Manhattans sing "Tomorrow"as a Commodores style slow jam? It was a minor hit, one of the last crossover mainstream covers of a show tune, and inexplicably it WORKS.

"And the cat eats the baby with a silver spoon…"

They were into plowing each other. Tolkien wasn't comfortable writing about it, so he pushed the to the sidelines.

Now eat yer Big Mac, Billy lad; and if I see any ballet out of you, I'll have your fookin' balls for McNuggets!

It's a cross between "The Fault in Our Stars" and that genuinely macabre true-crime story that broke on Buzzfeed last year…

I was just reading last night about how issues with the rights to Black Lightning led to so many black superheroes with electrical powers popping up to fill the void. I had always thought as a kid that Static Shock had been a homage to Marvel's Storm, but he's just one in a line of black lightning wielders created by…

I believe the article talked about one book by a secular Jewish author in the Middle East that did that, but when I searched it I discovered it was pretty obscure and not available in English. So it's not really a thing that happens with enough regularity to be even a subgenre.

Alan Dean Foster's bizarre "Spellsinger" series involves dragons who spit Marxist agitprop and burn down villages so that rich and poor alike have no choice but to rebuild as a classless agrarian society.

I read an essay with a title like "Why is there no Jewish fantasy?" a year ago- it was basically exploring why fantasy literature tends to come from an Anglo-Norse background full cloth, with Celtic and Viking elements mixed and everything else with the exception of Greek mythology and some…

I enjoyed the game for what it was, but in hindsight realize that it suffers from the insane design choice of trying to be an action RPG Metroidvania without offering saves.

She's a Gaiman. Being shot out of a cannon at the moon is just Tuesday for them.

I wish they could make a rebooted Chakan the Forever Man; maybe even iron out the the licensing issues and include more Elric stuff instead of just leaving Chakan, the Elric expy created to be as close as legally possible.

Not Sweeney,
From "Sweeney Todd…"
They cut this song in the mo-vie!

Nah, Harry has at least heard a song before in his life. Archie forever looks at his guitar like a caveman who just discovered the very concept of music.

There's a difference between wit and cleverness: Nillson was rarely show-offy for his own pleasure in his lyrics, the way that you can feel a certain glee at cleverness in the lyrics of many of his contemporaries, say, Billy Joel, Roger Waters and Pete Townshend.

Has anyone other than (arguably) David Bowie ever achieved their high point during their faux-black phase?