His mother is famously dead.

Were Zeus or Apollo crazy fanboys, or just celestial horndogs? They went to insane lengths to be near honeys that caught their eye, but I don't recall the myths well enough to remember if they were obsessive stalkers, or just spur of the moment opportunists.

The article had me thinking about Emily Blunt's underwear.

Rhino's Supernatural Fairy Tales box set actually came out in 1996, and contains music from two decades before 1997, but it was the overarching piece of pop culture in my 1997. Having been a punk kid in the 70s, I'd unthinkingly accepted the "Prog sucks" narrative (which was never really the point of punk in the first…

Gee whiz. Don't the Millenials get blamed for enough shit without someone suggesting Limbaugh is secretly one of them?

Maybe he just meant as people and not as music. They did seem like maybe they were a fun bunch of gals to hang out with.

Not sure that I can sign off on an era that gave the world Buffy, Freaks & Geeks, Daria and The Sopranos as the nadir of tv, but it was the era that ushered in the age of reality tv and also when the major networks really began programming for sweeps months instead of letting seasons run their courses with minimal…

As one of the few people in the world willing to admit a fondness for 90s X-Men, 1997 was a transitional year. Operation Zero Tolerance was marginal at best, but a somewhat promising new era started in its aftermath with the arrival of Joe Kelly and Steven Seagle writing the two main titles. That era was ended pretty…

Yeah! And Wichita, too! I see you over there minding your own business thinking you won't get dragged into this, Wichita, but you're in it, baby. You and the horse you fuck on a nightly basis!

Michael Hutchence OUTXSed himself that year, also. And Mother Teresa died and was overshadowed by Di.

My favorite Ginger Rogers movie is Gold Diggers of 1933, which opens with her belting out "We're In the Money" in Pig Latin while clad in a very fetching hubcap bikini. And that's not even the most surreal part of the movie - that would be the "Petting in the Park" dance number, which extols the virtues of feeling up…

The late movie critic Reggie McDaniel said it was the worst movie he ever saw. He also gave Van Helsing six stars on a four star scale and singled out Halle Berry's performance in X-Men as being especially praiseworthy. But my favorite Reggie McDaniel moment was when he did a heartfelt tribute to the "late John Hurt,"…

The fact that this is where Cynthia Stevenson's career ended up going troubles my soul.

Kewanee, Illinois is dominated by the massive Goode's Furniture superstore. One grey, blustery winter day back in the 90s, a friend of mine who'd just bought a house in Bloomington dragged me there to look for furniture for her new abode. After a morning wandering around the massive joint, we went to lunch in the wine…

My head hangs in shame for not thinking of "Bye Bye Pride." Soul crushingly beautiful.

It took me years to finally get the joke of that.

Wracking my brain to come up with something wonderful and impressive, but all I've got is the xylophone solo from "Moonlight (Feels Right)" by Starbuck. I'm not proud of this answer, but not ashamed either.

As for me, I'm listening to field recordings of Micronesian Klezmer music. I'm definitely NOT listening to the Yacht Rock station on Sirius. I don't think my Sirius package even HAS that station. Channel 17. I only know that because I overheard a yogi mentioning it to someone. But I've never actually listened to the…

Answers as pretentious as the AV staffers' are surely covering up the reality of "Cracked Rearview" and "The Eagles Greatest Hits." There doth be too much protesting otherwise.

The capacity of imbeciles to completely miss the point of their favorite entertainment is limitless, as JK Rowling finds out every time she posts a criticism of Trump and gets deluged with angry replies from dimwits vowing they'll burn their formerly beloved Harry Potter books.