For a season I used to work at a mall toy shop and the in-store music selection that was piped through the PA system, repetitively, was a selection mostly "fun" and "completely awful" crap and the abomination that was Tag Team's version of their "hit" Whoomp! (There it Is!) rewritten for use in the "Addams Family…

The AV Club, now that person who wants you to read their favorite 800-pages long multi-crossover fanfiction and insists on posting large excerpts even in the wake of zero interest being shown.

I think it might be time to pull the plug on the AV Club. Just sayin'.

It's still kind of weird that they still sort of like TFA even after discussing it's flaws but it is fun watching them deride the gruesome corporateness of Disney-owned Star Wars, from the theme park tackiness to the 20 year plan for endless sequels. I never get tired of seeing clips of George Lucas realizing what…

I think it was all part of getting into all the clickbait "the prequels weren't that bad" articles that mysteriously proliferated after Disney bought the franchise.

The electronics/computer chain that was my own personal bête noire was CompUSA or as some people called it CompUSSR - I saw some people say "Good." with grim satisfaction when Circuit City went down but the reactions to CompUSA fizzling out were often very positive. I had a couple of my own bad experiences with the…

I had a friend whose college used Comic Sans for everything official for a year or two. Exams, enrollment confirmation, even his degree was written in Comic Sans.

There was also the time, November 26, 1977 when someone broke in on a local ITV station's news reading with a 6 minute or so audio message from "Vrillon, a representative of the Ashtar Galactic Command" which stopped in time for the cartoons after.

Some years back, the owners of a now long defunct bookshop I had frequented occasionally left a peevish open letter on their front doors upon their announcement they were having to close the shop, and had it published in a local free alt-weekly, it was punctuated with some words of "strong language" and blamed online…

This is pretty much what they do at Kotaku these days, post about videogame porn, My Little Pony comics, "dank memes": http://67.media.tumblr.com/… , and other farmed content, and articles with titles like "What would Marvel's Civil War be like with Anime Girls?"

I'm not exactly looking forward to this, I can't help but suspect there will be lots of sex and nudity and community college philosophy questions about "consciousness and shit".

Then there was the terrorist group he went up against in his miniseries that was made up of people representing various different fringe factions, with the understanding as soon as they achieved their objective they were probably going to turn on each other: "We're going to destroy the current order. What will we…

I never really cared for Tim Burton's work, to me as a director he came off as a mediocre production designer. His films have gotten, no matter how "weird" the premise, very rote and such.

I've been wanting to watch Asura since I first heard of it; like, let me at another dark Korean thriller with some bloody fight scenes because it seems like quite a few of those have come out of South Korea the past couple of decades and quite a few of them are pretty good - they hit the right notes with me in…

I can't wait for Hamilton II

Not since Thirtysomething has a TV show given off such strong vibes of being self-important, self-indulgent pandering trash.

Magruber II Early Draft:

There were a lot of lousy sitcoms made during the 1990s, and the bottom-of-the-barrel were the ones that aired on UPN or WB. Especially the WB. Sure they had a few "hits" that lingered around long enough to be syndicated endlessly on some channels, like The Steve Harvey Show or The Jamie Foxx Show or Unhappily Ever…

Really, I couldn't stand the show because it took the concept of the sitcom dad/husband as a bumbling fool right out of dozens of hack stand-up routines, a clownish forgetter of anniversaries who'd rather watch The Big Game than do anything his wife wants, thinks he can fix anything, can't actually fix anything, won't…

Yes, the Equalizer was about Edward Woodward's McCall setting up stings and targeting the emotional and psychological weak points of and playing extended mindgames on the villains of the week that would leave them at times frantic, crazed, etc.