I was just happy to see Deuce and Homer duetting on the Archies' "Hot Dog" (with Homer as Betty—note the tambourine)!

"Mijacogeo" is Dolenz's favorite episode, as I recall. Good to see "The Devil and Peter Tork" on the list (Mike's speech about Peter's love of the harp and the importance of music still chokes me up, dammit), though I'd love to see "Monkee Mother" included. It's a very sweet episode with Rose Marie as a widow who…

I want to know where Lubichuk ended up in the draft! Since Homer was so eager for any team to pick him, I assume that he's a hometown prospect. Maybe the resolution got cut for time…not fair.

After reading about Jeni's a few years ago but balking at the shipping price, I bought her first cookbook on a whim. The recipes are foolproof and excellent, and I cook from it constantly. (The recent sequel emphasizes baked goods and more exotic combos, but is worth buying for the raspberry sorbet recipe alone…it…

I never really understood why Sloan's "Pretty Together" didn't appear on the album of the same name; it's a very pretty Jay ballad that wouldn't have been out of place. It was on a compilation CD that accompanied a copy of now-defunct UK zine COMES WITH A SMILE, and subsequently appeared on the Sloan B-SIDES WIN…

I couldn't take my eyes off that background portrait of old-school Muppet Harvey Kneeslapper in the DOWNTON ABBEY parody. What a backstory he must have! As I watched the Tonys last night, I yearned to see Monsterpiece Theatre's THE KING AND I parody, featuring Grover as the King dancing with a surprisingly charismatic…

When I was nine, I wrote Yankovic a fan letter. I distinctly remember addressing him as "Weird" Al instead of "Weird Al," and realized that that meant I didn't think he was weird. (I didn't then, and I still don't.) Some of you may enjoy my blog post today in honor of "Eat It"'s 31st anniversary:

I humbly thank you! I tend to get dazzled by the commenters here,
and sometimes even sneak a peek at the comments first. Of course
this album would be the topic to finally get me to de-lurk…

It doesn't appear to have been re-released, though I'd imagine that if they do a ONE CHORD boxed set (like they did for TWICE REMOVED), it will be on there. It's mostly covers, if that's any consolation…

I understand—I had the same problem when I read other people's entries! Plus, I think a lot of the albums had really strange release histories; I discovered that problem when I chose mine. Besides BORN TO ADD, I also wrote up Sloan's ONE CHORD TO ANOTHER (which had a US release on the short-lived label The Enclave,…

Aww! Thank you so much, you made my day!

The BORN TO ADD album is indeed a masterpiece, at least in its original
1983 incarnation. (The re-releases substitute some tracks, and
can get a little cutesy.) I wrote an entry on it for the 2005 LOST IN THE GROOVES anthology, and it remains close to my heart. I'm always surprised that there isn't more love for…

Can't wait to see this! Believe it or not, one of the more evenhanded accounts of the
Red Army team appears throughout Wayne Coffey's THE BOYS OF WINTER (billed solely as a tribute to the Miracle on Ice team in the blurbs). More than once, you
hear US players mention how they always feared the powerful Russian machine,
…