About halfway through Mark Leyner's "GONE WITH THE MIND." It's bracing to read a more mature Leyner, especially if you were once a wiseacre undergrad who wallowed in "Et Tu, Babe" and "My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist."

I still maintain that BEAVIS AND BUTTHEAD is one of the most authentic portrayals of male adolescence ever captured in pop culture.

I listen to a talk show that has really addressed that topic, i.e., one of the personalities will imitate Trump saying something, and the other hosts think he's saying it in the manner of here's-me-doing-a-Trump-impression-but-obviously-exaggerating-for-comic-effect, and then the guy reveals that, no, he was doing an…

Forgotten song by forgotten '90s band, but I Mother Earth's "One More Astronaut" totally qualifies, with the titular character bemoaning "the powdered food and piss bags, never having sex, growing old."

Hmm, I did not know this was originally a novel.

There are so many people who have the opinion that HUM were overlooked geniuses. I listened to SYPAA and Downward is Heavenward at multiple points, trying to see what they say. Perhaps I wasn't patient enough, but I never quite got there.

Last year I was listening to a national talk show that was interviewing D'Souza, call-in. He was going on about how America really needed to course-correct with its morals and go back to embracing traditional values, etc… Point is, the interview was call-in because he was literally calling from the halfway house where…

Christians really seem to have a persecution complex. I wonder why that is.

Homer Simpson: "'Do not touch Ted Cruz'… good advice!"

Cobain was a merely adequate guitar player, and had a passable signing voice (even the Seattle grunge invasion had superior singers), but I've always said that what makes Cobain noteworthy is that he was a true visionary… an overused label when speaking of musicians but one I'd totally apply to him.

Am I the only person who periodically sees that a cable channel is showing the movie "Neighbors" and for a moment thinks "Holy shit, they're actually showing that bizarre and forgotten John Belushi/Dan Aykroyd movie!"?

I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume he'll appear in the bearded-hillbilly look he adopted for "Duck Dynasty," rather than the pre-DD look of clean-shaven beachcomber with blond highlights.

I've heard that his movies do have material that could be viewed as innuendo, in the context of the director's past. "Jeepers Creepers 2" for instance, opens with a busload of shirtless teenage boys singing their school's fight song, which includes lines about "the mighty cock" or something.

That's what I thought ever since "Powder." How did this child molester - who molested the child star of one of his fucking movies, no less - get financial backing to make theatrical-release movies? His career has actually improved since he molested the child actor.

There were always the jokes about him being a weakling (see: Beavis and Butthead), but I think he deserved them because he always acted like he was such a badass, e.g., his confrontation with Kurt Cobain.

I was just thinking the same thing, that it's not really even a song. It's more of a spoken word piece.

Probably my favorite Dylan song… and in true Dylan style, it's not even on a regular album.

Teenage me sure got a thrill from the vitriol in that song. However, having randomly heard it as an adult a while back, I remember thinking, Axl Rose was basically advertising what an immature manchild he was… and an angry, joyless one at that.

Yes. Combined into one album, with filler such as "Get in the Ring" thrown out, Use Your Illusions could've been one of the great hard rock albums of all time… at least on par with Appetite for Destruction.

Re: The "L.A. Law" clip…