Quick story: My grandparents took me and my brother to Florida in their motor home the summer that the Blizzard debuted, and we kids were obsessed with them and kept hoping to get one. We were allowed exactly one: My grandmother bought a small one, portioned some out to each of us in those 3-ounce Dixie bathroom cups,…

If I may: I've kept for years the Associated Press article about Dumbledore being gay, and the CBN News rewrite of that article, and I'd like to excerpt them both here so we can compare and contrast and roll our eyes or whatever:

Or you could BUY it on VHS for just…$99.99? What the HELL, rental pricing?

Bloom County called her a celebrity, at least in terms of nightmares: http://www.gocomics.com/blo…

My all-time favorite use of this was actually a fakeout: "The battle has been won, but the war is not over. COMING SOON: Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Redemption"

I can relate. When I was a kid, an Arby’s restaurant was next to an Andy’s near a Wendy’s, so I just thought of them all as “ees” names. I was almost 30 before I jokingly said, “I’ve got two words for this wedding reception: Ar. By’s” and realized that the name was a phonetic representation of the abbreviation for…

You're really that out of touch?

They have TVs, but not the photo technology at the TV station to do anything more to show the actual launch than to present a crude drawing on paper…but they can't REALLY have paper, because then the students would turn in permission SLIPS instead of stones, but…but…

"We're putting you in charge of the 'In Memoriam' montage for the people we lost in 2016! Only 12 names, though. We're doing a 15-minute medley for the 50th anniversary of 'Doctor Dolittle.'"

I was in college when Mariah Carey's "Someday" came out, and I was with a group of guys in the cafeteria and somehow the discussion turned to that song, with lyrics like "You were so blind to let me go/You had it all but did not know."

The flip side to that, which may well be common knowledge around these parts: Paul Anka, at age 18, wrote the instrumental "Toot Sweet," which he later wanted to modify into the theme to The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. However, bandleader Skitch Henderson (then 45) didn't want to play some punk kid's music…

You're technically the first person to ask (although a longtime friend, as a joke, said "lie to her, bag her and move on"). No, I didn't. I said I wasn't feeling well and we'd have to skip the movie.

I had a date three weeks ago with a woman who was worried that I was an ultra-liberal because I work at a newspaper, and I was trying to reassure her that, no, I was a level-headed guy. Then she said "Because the country's in such a mess right now. I mean, Obama would turn us all Muslim if he could."

Billy Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principal: Billy Heisenberg is the most popular kid at Quantum Elementary, but he’s met his match in Principal Erwin. Whenever Billy knows where Mr. Erwin is, he doesn’t know what the principal is doing. And whenever Billy figures out what the principal is doing, there’s no telling where…

I'm sure I've said this before, but back during the run-up to 2002's Spider-Man, Joe Quesada went on (if I remember correctly) ABC's overnight World News Now and had a conversation that went something like this:

I've tried to find this old magazine online and failed — I don't know if it was Us back when it was a monthly, or Vanity Fair, or what, but someone in the '80s/'90s had the bright idea to do a portfolio of 1-page photos and match Old Hollywood folks with their closest contemporary counterparts. The ones I always…

You mean like they did with the late Bill Melendez in The Peanuts Movie? What do you think this is, some kind of crazy crossover with Snoopy as Groot, and Woodstock Raccoon, and Charlie-Lord, and…and…

Cesar Romero is always available. In the immortal words of Mark Evanier, "Mr. Romero has passed away. This has only slightly cut down on his availability."

The theory I like about "Kylo" is that Ben Solo took two letters from each of his parents' last names — Skywalker and Solo (he would consider Leia a Skywalker, obviously).

From Entertainment Weekly, Nov. 7, 1997: