Very interesting column, and I’m glad I followed along. Didn’t think anyone else knew of the album “Shleep.” I was mailed a free copy when I was the Features Editor of my college newspaper. I listened to it once and thought it was incredibly weird and, at times, downright unlistenable (sorry). I immediately assigned…

Besides the obvious answer of only listening to The Beach Boys during summer and Christmas music in December (and not a day before that month!), I actually just recently practiced the answer to this question by listening to “This Time of Year” by ‘90s one-hit-wonder Better Than Ezra from their debut Deluxe. (They did…

“Maps” from “Fun Home” is an excellent choice. That was one of the top five Broadways shows I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen close to 50 of them. I would also include “Ring of Keys,” “Days and Days,” “Telephone Wire,” and especially the finale (“Daddy, come here, okay? I need you”). Also, I never realized “The Ballad of…

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The contract was to make certain we were actively trying to sell the knives. We had to reach a certain quota a week (or maybe it was a month; I don’t remember). If we didn’t meet a quota, I think we had to buy a certain portion of our stock ourselves. (Again, I don’t remember all the details; this was 20 years ago.)…

I went through Cutco training and was all prepared to hit the streets with my knives, but the night before our “graduation,” I looked in the mirror and realized I’m just not a salesman, and I also felt bad about taking advantage of my friends and family by asking them to buy things they already owned. The next day, my…

How is The Catcher in the Rye a “children’s book”? Teen book maybe, but Goodnight, Moon it ain’t.

Jack Nicholson. That’s how I got through “Something’s Gotta Give.”

Photo caption: “Oh, you rapscallion! Trying to ban all those Muslims and Mexicans!”

I’ve also been tricked by shamelessly misleading VHS boxes back in the day. Being a werewolf fan (well, at least a fan of the original “Howling” and “An American Werewolf in London”), I was enticed by the cover art of a movie simply titled “Werewolf,” a.k.a. “Arizona Werewolf” (yes, THAT one “MST3K” fans). It had one…

It took five people to create this POS? I didn’t have high hopes before watching since it looks so incredibly ugly, but somehow, it was even worse than I feared. It was so desperate to offend (no, I don’t need to see some cartoon’s butthole), it forgot to be funny, as if edginess is the sole reason why “South Park”…

One of the genius hallmarks of a good “South Park” episode is to take seemingly disparate elements of recent pop culture (the current surge of reboots and nostalgia, the latest protesting of the national anthem, the divisive campaign of the loathsome Trump, this crazy election in general, Internet bullying, the new PC…

I just watched the season finale on my DVR earlier this week and didn’t realize it was also the series finale. Sad to see this show go. I really enjoyed it and thought the second season was vastly superior to the first. I loved all the guest stars (Will Ferrell! Andy Richter!) and that multi-episode arc when Dave gets…

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Shocked that “Stand By Me” isn’t on here, while the knockoffs “The Sandlot” and “Now and Then” are, not least of which because it just celebrated its 30th anniversary (like literally a week ago). No other movie captures the joys and disappointments of summer so perfectly for me (especially the end of summer since the…

I could never get into Prince Paul’s “Psychoanalysis” (someone needs to tell Prince Paul that the word doesn’t actually mean the analysis of psychos), but I absolutely love “A Prince Among Thieves,” quite possibly the world’s first hip-hop opera. I used to write for a local entertainment paper, and my advance copy of…

“The Nightly Show” a “cultural phenomenon”? Methinks the lady boasts too much.

Fun fact: Jennifer Connelly also plays a character named Sarah Williams in “Waking the Dead,” a movie that couldn’t be any more different than “Labyrinth” but is no less amazing (again, for much different reasons). It’s still one of my favorite movies of the early 2000s.

Just in case Caroline Siede doesn’t know this, one of the reasons why that line in “The Little Mermaid” is so poignant is because it was written by the late, great Howard Ashman, who, I’m sure you know, was the lyricist for the movie (as well as “Little Shop of Horrors,” “Beauty and the Beast,” and “Aladdin”). He also…