My daughter is 4 and we showed her Star Wars a few weeks ago. She was sort of into it, but not enraptured. We're holding off on Empire until she will appreciate the twist. She normally stops paying attention to a movie halfway through…

Is it legal for a professional music critic to not own a single Cheap Trick CD?

I sincerely believe that CCR's peak is the greatest of any American rock band. In a three year period, they cranked out five incredible albums. CCR is the Sandy Koufax of rock bands.

I wasn't even aware they had any records after the first two.

No CVB hurt me nearly as much as him not owning any CCR. Those are two great bands with small yet great discographies.

The Lil Poseur fell asleep during the climax. I don't know what this means about the film's quality, but if that works on the BluRay release, I'm gonna have this movie cued up for the rest of her childhood.

I think this was the angriest I've ever been at a fictional character. Sansa explicitly told Jon not to do the stupid thing, and even how Ramsey would goad Jon into doing the stupid thing. And as soon as he sees Rickon, Jon runs off to do the stupid thing.

Southern Bastards. A violent comic book steeped in the mythos of the deep south? Sign me up. The hardback edition even has recipes from the grandmothers in the back for southern staples.

Another thing I like is that, in the heat of the moment, these hip, self-aware characters made the wrong choice anyway. I seem to remember one scene in which Sydney runs up the stairs instead of out the front door, completely contrary to her own advice. I like that because… scared people make irrational decisions. It…

Tuesday's Freewheelin was so great. I also have a soft spot for Dan Potthast's Eyeballs. For some reason, MU330 never quite clicked with me, but his solo record did.

Also, it was written in a different language, and has been translated, several times, into the modern tongue. Reading an English language Bible literally is insane.

One of the few reasons I'm still a Catholic is because fuck you, those hateful assholes don't get to define my religion. If you get any meaning out of the New Testament other than God is Love, your reading comprehension is for shit.

Sam Bee has become the essential voice since the Daily Show left the air. It's just glorious outrage towards evil and dumbshittery. She's doing God's work.

The ordinary citizens of Tulsa got together in 1921 and murdered close to 300 black people, and took 6000 hostages. Martial law was declared to quell the rioters. "Black Tulsa" was literally burned to the ground.

I don't know, I took real encouragement about the state of humanity that so many people donated blood in Orlando yesterday that the blood banks reached full capacity. Call me a sucker, but I do believe in mankind's basic goodness, and I think the overwhelming response has been one of decency. As Oliver stated in the…

The through line there isn't religion, but fundamentalism. Fundamentalist Islamic terrorists have a disturbingly similar social agenda as fundamentalist Christians. Neither group of fundamentalists bear even a passing similarity to the millions of peaceful and loving religious people of both the Christian and Muslim…

As a resident of flyover country, the Tonys tend to be my first exposure to the Broadway season (and prep me for what tours I'm going to be interested in). And while this award show was Hamilton-heavy, it made sense given that it was going to be the runaway winner. I felt like I got a good exposure to the other shows,…

Totally agree. I like prestige drama, but I've got a busy life, and sometimes I just want to watch a well-made show with enjoyable characters that I don't need to remember an elaborate backstory for.

I think it also was on Liquid Television once. Still, Night Flight is one of my all-time favorite TV shows, and I can't express how excited I am for this.

Totally agree. I don't think fiction I do not enjoy is somehow invalid. The world is a big place, and there's room for everybody. This was a preference argument.