Weird to comment on something three years old, but it's exactly the same I feel about Oakland. I only live 40 miles away now, in the East Bay suburbs, but I think about my time in the lovely Laurel more than any other place I've ever lived. Of course, that city will reach in through your chest cavity and rip your…

Carol of the Bells sounds Russian and dark (but I repeat myself). A good choir doing this, with a good arrangement, always makes me feel better.

Nina Hagen would work too!

As a guy who knows a lot of musicians (in fact, you could throw a rock around here and hit one, and do me a favor - throw it hard), I don't see the problem. What artist vets their fans? Also, this d-bag is the ultimate punch line to that joke that's been going around for years about selling an album for $2 million:…

"That boil is the size of a robin's egg!"

Exactly. Limbaugh also uses the "acting!" defense, but all he does is give a voice to the worst elements in America. Really, rest of the world, 92% of us think he's crazy too.

As John Steinbeck called William Randolph Hearst through one of his characters: "fat, sof' fella with a mouth like a azz-hole".

It's been a while since I've seen it, but I recall Pottersville being more of my type of place, and where most of my friends would live. I bet they had some great singers there too. As for the movie, they should drill a hole in it so that the sap could run out.

My favorite was at an SJSU Spartans game back when Jeff Garcia was QB - he'd just thrown a pick, and the KSJS radio station announcer came out with "and a GREAT tackle by Jeff Garcia!"

I saw him do the ultimate mic drop in 2000 when he dropped out of the presidential campaign, at least partially due to the Bush folks implying during the South Carolina primary that McCain's adopted daughter was black. When he was out of the running, Maria Shriver tried to interview him. He looked at her, and said…

Pat Tillman would like a word about that. Well he would anyway, if he wasn't killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan. The yellow ribbon thing is what gets me - I won't do anything for the 9/11 responders, or the soldiers after they get back from Iraq or Afghanistan, but look here's my 99-cent sticker on my 10mpg SUV…

Nixon had the "silent majority", which was a dog whistle for white lower- and middle-class people. The people that Archie Bunker were modeled after. I mean, politicians have to get elected, and as George Wallace learned, pandering to people's dark sides is a good way to do it.

No love for John Cougar Concentration Camp?

This race is pretty famous up here in the Bay Area. I knew some folks from a high-tech company I used to work for that made a junked-out 3-series BMW with porcupine-like quills all over the outside for this race. Thus completing that joke "what's the difference between a porcupine and a BMW? In a porcupine, all the…

Everybody Hates Chris was pretty good for this as well.

I'm tired of these monkey-fighting laser-wearing sharks in the Monday-to-Friday E.R.!

There was that famous Tonight Show with Siskel & Ebert and Chevy Chase. Johnny Carson asked Ebert which holiday movie he liked the least. Ebert said, "The Three Amigos." Chase said, "Looking forward to YOUR next film". A pretty good story: http://www.rogerebert.com/i…

(unscrews cap on 2 liter bottle of Faygo)

It' OK, Zach, a lot of people like your movies!

SCTV caught that perfectly with that punk rock group they had and the song that was called, I think, "I hate the bloody Queen.", with John Candy's keyboardist and his cold-eyed static leer, which is something I wouldn't think was possible.