Thank you, CM.

Listen to the harmonies. They went places nobody else had. If they weren’t the tightest, they were some of the most exciting.

Even Herman’s Hermits were a working band, before they got swept up in the British Invasion fever. A middling pop band, but a team out playing gigs on a regular basis.

You probably went in thinking they were boring to begin with. That’s how it is with lots of people who don’t like the Beatles. Also, you don’t have to like them; that’s personal taste. Recognizing the quality of lack thereof, of a given work, goes beyond that.

Bob Dylan has never had a pleasant-sounding voice. Bob Dylan, in his prime, was an amazing singer. Two different things entirely.

Sure, Quincy. They may not have had the chops of your fancy studio hacks, but The Beatles played nine-hour shifts in crappy German bars, keeping the crowd entertained, and kept getting those bookings for years, in spite of the availability of local bands. That took serious talent, And all but Ringo wrote songs…

If Nathan Rabin were here, his monocle would pop out.

They used to knock mailboxes off their posts. (I lived in Iowa for 17 years.)

Combs is also 63.

O’Neil/Cowan Vic Sage. Ditko’s Question is pretty much a mouthpiece for Objectivism that goes even further than Rand would have her “heroes” go. Montoya, while an interesting character, just isn’t The Question. She’s someone who took Sage’s mask and hat and started fighting crime. She has a legacy, but not really…

The word “Selfie” had very little to do with the show, except in setting up the character’s basic shallowness. If you knew nothing about the show, the title “Selfie” told you nothing more.

It’s good to know that, even in the distant future, any murder investigation will require a visit to a strip club.

Nothing can be “200 times smaller.” 100 percent is totality. Do you mean the cat is 1/200 the size of a lion?

The original recording of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” even out of context, is a heart-destroying piece of work. The word “hokey” has nothing to do with that.

Your fun is someone else’s boredom.

They and the eXile guys seem to operate on the same bandwidth.

Word has filtered down to someone I know that the entire “production,” if one may call it that, was a money-laundering operation. The “producers” cared so little that they told the operators of the four theaters where it screened to destroy the prints, rather than return them.

Word has filtered down that “After Last Season” was a money-laundering operation, probably for the mob. They cared so little about even pretending it was a real movie that the “producers” told the four theaters that ran the movie (for one week) to destroy the prints, rather than return them.

That was the press secretary, at least in public.

True. However, since his death, she has become fiercely protective of Reagan and his image. She still may not share his political and social views, but she has expressed significant anger when he is attacked.