I'd really like to see Billy Joel. At least I've seen Elton John twice.

I think overall I liked Season 2's cast of characters better than Season 1's. I thought the Carver storyline was weak, though, too extreme and predictable a villain. I liked the Sarah storyline, and was surprised by how it ended (for some reason). I'm really curious to see how they handle Season 3.

All of that show's various Ainsley Hayeses and Chandler Bingses (whatever Perry's character is called) and Amy Gardners can kindly take themselves to Mandyville.

I watched Lethal Weapon for the first time. When I was a kid, I considered myself way too smart for that kind of thing. That was probably the right stance to take at the time, because I wouldn't have appreciated it for what it is: a really fun, well-made movie in its milieu.

STOP GIVING ME NEW PODCASTS!

Not the most seamless display of Godwin's Law, but give it credit for showing up anyway. It's nothing if not consistent.

Robert Earl Keen's A Bigger Piece of Sky on cassette. Still a great album, still an artist I really enjoy. I can't say the same for a lot of my other early purchases.

The comments on this kind of thing are almost universally negative, but I notice they get a lot of favorites and retweets on Twitter. Their metrics must weigh that higher.

This article is tongue-in-cheek.

If it's so simple, tell me who the hell it can be now!

I haven't, but I was thinking it sounded like a Heart of Darkness riff. Is it?

I largely agree with you. Of course, Holly Golightly isn't as interesting as she puts on either, and her free-spiritedness is a cultivated act, but that's all the more reason she'd reject this ball-and-chain. At least York isn't quite as disapproving as Peppard, but he is if possible even more lifeless.

It is high time that the critical pendulum among the Simpsorati swings away from this kneejerk dislike of modes of humor that they perceive, often uncritically, as belonging to "Family Guy."

There are nutty, improbable gags in great Simpsons episodes, of course (the escalator to nowhere in “Marge Vs. The Monorail” comes to mind, for one). But for one thing—they’re funny. For another, they’re built on a foundation of logic, no matter how tortured (Springfield is prone to huge, tragically improbable…

I know what you mean. I jealously guard my uses of all my Ghibli DVDs and Blu-Rays, and yet I still end up watching them more often than my other physical media.

Been playing Dark Souls 1 for the first time (haven't played 2 yet either), and I feel like I've made decent progress in my first 22 hours of play. I rang the top churchbell and I'm slowly working my way toward the one underneath right now.

I love how the MC is acting the part of the Shakespearean fool, using the songs and dances to make sly comments on the Nazis and on the gay culture of interwar Berlin (ding ding ding: recent Fresh Air interview).

Agreed. One of my favorite pop culture discussion forums is the NPR show Pop Culture Happy Hour, and its host Linda Holmes actually brought it up an episode or two ago.

I don't have a suspension of disbelief problem when it comes to the movie adaptations, I seem to be able to do it for singing and dancing as well as I do it for supernatural horror and faster-than-light space travel in other genres, but I do agree that the Evita adaptation was a big disappointment. I'd put a lot of…

I courteously abstain.