Nope, Rufio made it out to me in the northwest Chicago suburbs via that one proto-hipster kid who played in three bands at the Knights of Columbus Friday shows and whose older brother could totally score bottles of Skyy backstage. Ah, memories….

Decemberunderground came out right after I graduated high school and was a definitive endpoint on my high school emo-ish phase. I say "emo-ish" because I never dressed the part - I just listened to the music. I was a theater gay/band geek at heard. I did really love Miss Murder at the time.

A rewatch revealed that Terry Crews is the other bum in that scene.

Even though everyone in it is broke and sad and alcoholic, The Alibi Room on Shameless seems like it would be an excellent dive bar to get absolutely shitfaced in. And the stories would fuel party conversation for years.

My favorite part of the TV series was all these stories that were taking place in this magical small-town America where everyone says "aboot" and "soory." I hope that aspect is carried over.

I agree 100 percent that the song is ham-handed and kind of juvenile and it's problematic that he keeps reasserting how straight he is and there's a dozen other queer rappers and singers who don't get the credit they deserve and that marriage thing Macklemore and Ryan Lewis did with Queen Latifah was just the…

This is stupid, but the lost movie I most want to see is the director's cut of 54 that screened at Outfest a couple years back.

He was pretty hilariously scenery-chewing in his small role in Piranha.

I actually kind of liked Click at the time, though I doubt it's held up.

It made $5.1 million on a $5 million budget, so definitely a small profit. Weirdly, his most initially successful film was Shortbus, which made $5.4 million on a $2 million budget. The movie of Hedwig lost money in theaters ($6 million budget, $3 million gross) but likely made it back on video.

Gary Larson too! He did a New Yorker cover in the early 2000's and asked people not to share his stuff online, but has otherwise been a ghost since 1995.

John Cameron Mitchell.

An Inconvenient Truth might be the most crystalline illustration of how a documentary still needs to be cinematic, regardless of how new and important the information is. Global warming is certainly a relevant, pressing issue, and yet it's one of the most boring movies I've ever sat through.

I always wondered how many party anecdotes the people in the last shot of the SATC intro got out of it. "Hey, you know that Asian guy next to Carrie when it freeze-frames? That's me!"

This pretty perfectly articulates my feelings toward Walking Dead. It's a show I watch every week and enjoy and don't really want to give up, and yet I haven't had any strong feelings about anything that's happened on it since really early on in season 2.

Sub-question: which HBO show intro do you always expect to start after the static "AAAAHHHHHH" HBO Original Programming intro?

In a movie that's hysterical from top to bottom, his performance deserves special recognition. Every pause, inflection, reaction… all perfectly timed. I love that he's standing in the background during the talent show in the 80's-est tracksuit top and the scene never makes a point of it.

Count me among the benumbed who thinks more plot and varied locations sounds like an improvement. I liked The Raid, but by the hour mark it felt like it had exhausted all the possible variations on its scenario - with so little to grab onto plotwise and so many scenes that were just different fist/gunfights in fairly…

Peter Bogdanovich wrote for Esquire and was a film programmer at MoMA pre-directing.

I was 16 in '04, and Hot Fuss and American Idiot were pretty much THE defining "THIS ALBUM IS MY FEELINGS" pop albums of that year. At least for me, the sexually confused, Kerry-supporting, halfway-between-emo-phase-overlapping-with-theater-kid-phase person.