It does seem that the Super Bowl has changed for commercials from "unique expensive commercial designed to get you to remember this product" to "we paid a lot for this commercial spot, here's our latest campaign, or our biggest movie coming out this year."

What bothered me about that scene was you might as well have written PART OF THE EVIL CABAL on those guys foreheads, they were being so obvious. And here's the SSR, already tooled up to go hit the bad guys, carrying guns, and they just…meekly disarm.

I saw the trailer for Independence Day before Heat-the Michael Mann movie, natch-in one of the first theaters in my area to get the sort of LOUD AS FUCK sound systems that are business as usual these days-and I had to practically peel myself off the walls from the volume, but yes, the general sense you got off that…

I said this after the first episode-it's my most upvoted comment here and I still get notifications about it-that I would watch the hell out of a show that is just Peggy and Jarvis driving around in Howard Stark's cars, being witty and having misadventures. I'd buy that in a heartbeat.

Call back in 10 years then.

Man, I think I need to back Sophie Turner in a high stakes power game, because based on her ability to say this year after year with a straight face, my god the poker face she must have.

Brandon Sanderson fumes in his office over the missed opportunity.

The sheer brilliance of the central conceit-a monster is bitten by a human and is cured to deal with the horror of transforming into a human with human qualities taking the place of traditional monster horror-is perhaps the most amazing notion I've ever seen on television. And the source of endless hilarity. The…

I saw Number 17 posted somewhere else and just lost it laughing.

It's in the novelization, actually, which suggests it was part of the movie at one point and dropped in the final cut.

"You Got Lucky" just launched Petty and company into the garish video effects and videos with stories era of MTV. "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" was on MTV like every five minutes back in 1981, and Petty and the Heartbreakers had performance videos for "The Waiting" and "Woman In Love" on MTV as well.

"It's All Coming Back To Me Now" was actually written by Jim Steinman for the Pandora's Box project, which wound up producing about half of the songs on Bat Out Of Hell II and a couple on Bat III.

It did, it was very good, and it sank like a stone.

WHY DON'T YOU FEED HIM…THREE HAMS!

As silly as this notion seems, I will admit to a childlike glee at seeing the Herculoids again.

The cat being smart enough to go through the window, but not Fred, bothered me when I was a kid. Dammit Fred just go through the window!

I keep looking at the calendar expecting it somehow got to April 1st without me realizing it but, nope, January 29.

Yeah, that movie was huge and got multiple Oscar nominations. On what planet is that under the radar?

If you haven't listened to the rest of Pornograffitti, you'd be forgiven for thinking the song is about being more open in relationships.

I'm doing what I always do in Destiny when Iron Banner comes around-obstinately insisting I'm not going to bother as a solo player, wind up doing it anyway, with the added delight of the game mode being Rift.