Transsexual isn't a real word? There's a pretty long Wikipedia article with that title.

I'm not saying the lyrics are great or even good, but the distorted organ effect or whatever it is on that song is pretty cool. Also else's/"else as" is kind of a cool bit of wordplay.

Well I'm out of my depth in anything related to music theory. I'm not making the argument, but other people have. When people talk about early Beatles records showing the seeds of their genius, I find it's an argument based on musical qualities. Pretty much everyone accepts that their lyrics early on were purely…

Also, if Call Me Maybe were to be compared to a Beatles song it should be All I Have To Do, which is about the telephone. Apparently John wrote it especially for the American teen market since British teenaged guys, according to him, would never have used the phone to call up girls in that era.

Lyrically it's not different, but nobody really goes out of their way to praise the lyrics of IWTHYH (except for Bob Dylan who misheard them). People praise it for being innovative musically relative to other pop songs of the day. The guy interviewed here wants to make the case that Call Me Maybe speaks to a…

Also if she was so empowered she would ask the guy out herself, or ask for his phone number. But a girl asking a guy out is just a bridge too far I guess.

Chaos and Creation is a fucking great album.

I think there are some good songs on 1989 but "Shake It Off" isn't one of them. When people talk about it like it's revelation I feel like I'm living in a bizarro universe where "haters gonna hate" wasn't already a phrase like ten years ago, and where there wasn't already a (pretty excellent) Florence and the Machine…

The She's All That episode of the We Hate Movies podcast is delightful.

I always thought Beth Littleford was the best part of the original Daily Show, why not her?

Okay, I'll rephrase. "Problematic" is a chickenshit word. Say racist/sexist/classist/homophobic or whatever the applicable word is. In the case of this article, that word would be racist.

Does "versatile" mean "vague and non-committal" now?

I just think "problematic" is a chickenshit word. If it's racist, call it racist.

Does anybody know if Beauty and the Beast survived the Reign of Terror?

No Kevin Smith on Degrassi? That was like 25 years in the making.

OK, they used the same fake flag in the "Teenagers Joining ISIS" graphic on Weekend Update, and it says "I love cats." (A sentiment Muhammad would totally be on board with)

Did anyone notice that the ISIS flag didn't say "لا اله إلا الله" (there is no God but God) at the top, but rather "لا نريد إلا العقل" which translates to something like "we only want intellect." I'm not sure what joke they intended with that. I looked it up and saw that عقل also has an archaic meaning of "blood…

I don't know that I would call Tom a good person. But it's the Ted Baxter Effect. You stick around in the cast of an upbeat sitcom long enough and people will sentimentalize your character even if said character has been a complete dick in 90% of the episodes he appeared in.

This exchange from "Palestinian Chicken" is relevant in the April Ludgate discussion:

Don't Think Twice from the Season 1 finale is from 1963, but played during Don's lonely Thanksgiving 1960.