I snuck into a swimming pool (Santa Clara Aquatic Center) with a lady friend one time. Pro Tip: Be really, really drunk.

Somebody should have told Ozzy! Al led an interesting life. I was just reading a book about K2, and he was on one of the earliest climbing teams. They didn't make it, but nobody died, which couldn't be said for many other teams.

People born in HK speak Cantonese, which is quite different than Mandarin. There are a couple of people I know from Guandong or Hong Kong who speak Mandarin with my wife. She tells me it is hard to understand them and they use incorrect words at times. So, I would say that there is some truth to that statement.…

Knowing junkies and drunks will test your patience, especially if you were one yourself and got out of it. I had a friend, an old drinking buddy, who went into a coma from a long drinking binge and was in the ICU for a couple of weeks. I visited him there. He was then in a nursing home for a few months. He's in his…

Upvoted for Heelish, I'm using that, and soon

"You know what goes well with ham? Punch!"

This is the most Youtube-like comment thread I've read on avclub…ever. Maybe it's like Kissinger's line "Academic politics are so vicious because the stakes are so small", and I have a feeling there are a lot of lit majors, or profs, on here. My favorite lit bitch is a meeting I was in one time, where we were…

Looks like I could be wrong on Belleville, the director is from Paris. It seems so Quebecois, and I mean that in a good way - the grotesquerie and the animation. Cowards is on Netflix DVD, at least that was where I got it.

I love that line from Canadian Bacon, where the CNN tower is "the length of 10 football fields, or 9 1/2 Canadian football fields…as if that matters."

The Triplets of Belleville was my favorite Canadian movie, although I like pretty much anything Guy Maddin has done. Cowards Bend the Knee! is really something. I'd love to visit Winnipeg sometime.

I think that Jack Black said it best: They totally rock with high-voltage rock. OK maybe he didn't say that, but he should have. For those about to rock…BOOM! we salute you!

Also, somehow them being Australian kind of ties it all together. I mean, what else would they be, for God's sake?

Dirty deeds and the dunder cheese!

Ah yes, the old "secret success". I would say closer to Fiasco - even my wife was unhappy.

Burn After Reading was the role that made me realize he really is a good actor. I like that story about Angelina seeing him in his makeup and hairstyle during the shoot: "For the first time in my life, I'm not sexually attracted to you." On the other hand, my wife "convinced" me to watch By the Sea at the theatre, and…

Next? Anybody who has lived in California since the 1850s, as my family has, knows that the history of California is the history of water. And yes, you live in a desert, guess what? Water will be a concern at some point.

I was in a choir, a gospel choir, at the time. One time we had a gig way up north in California and we chartered a bus to get there. One lady was a mortgage broker - on the trip up there she was laughing about this part of it - "oh just put whatever numbers you want for your income, nobody checks it". After 2008 she…

"There is a two-week waiting period before you can buy this." "BUT I'M ANGRY NOW!"

You are correct! Sonny-era Cher is kind of like Ike-era Tina, they turned it up several notches after they got out of that nightmare.

I lived through this. It's a miracle we still have an ozone layer.