That was pretty cool. Sexy, even. Not something I would typically associate with her, but maybe that's what was cool about it. Live musicians (ostensibly) performing — which is always cool — playing groove-heavy, big-band, danceable music for a live audience (who mostly consisted of photogenic hipsters, but it is a…

This is the 2nd time today that I've run into something on the AVC that I found somewhere else first. (The other being that Beck on airplanes thing that I read during breakfast.) In both cases, I've been "seeing other sites" whose layout is more pleasing, and when I sneak back in here, trying to wash the stench off…

I had not thought of that, but you're dead right. It's probably akin to "Who did your parents vote for?" to determine your own voting patterns. Whoever you end up liking in late-night is the standard you measure all others by. Grew up with Carson, bored; came of age with Letterman.
Which means Fallon will do fine,…

OK, I generally respect TVDW, and his wisdom has (mostly) steered me to check out shows (Community; Parenthood) that I would never typically consider.

I was thinking the same thing when I wrote the original post, but I didn't know how to phrase it well. Plus, it's been ages since I read the books, and I am prone to doubt my memories of reading the stories. I only recently discovered, for example, that I had never actually read Tom Sawyer; I've only seen it and…

It's definitely a lesser Disney flick. And not a terribly great "story" — with a beginning, middle, and end — either. (Which makes it very dull for children, too.) It feels more like a bunch of set pieces — chase; pranks; cunning capers; love story stuff; etc. — loosely tied together with Robin Hood as a theme.

That echos my college Civ 1 experience. One machine; five people "sharing." Ridiculously slow boot-up times, so after investing 20 minutes for world-building, you really wanted to play for a while. And folks would literally skip class to try to cut our informal Civ line. (It got bad enough that we started to map…

Mac Davis can totally suck it!

Thanks for the heads up. We don't have a 3DS (yet), but your idea made me look up other modern ports. Looks like I can get it for the iOS, too, and maybe introduce it to my kids. (After Daddy spends some quality time being nostalgic, that is. So they don't beat me.) Thank you.

This echoes my own holiday experiences. Lots of time for marathon sessions of Risk, Monopoly, and Civilization (the board game.) The rest of the year, it seems, we couldn't find the time to play two to three hour games, so during the holidays, we tried to catch up. My dad in particular often said the main reason he…

I don't remember enough of the details — wikipedia says that this must have been 'Xmas '92. We had just gotten a Sega Genesis, and one of the first games we received for it was Ecco. (Our dad was rather averse to more obviously violent games.)
Ecco was a beautiful mesmerizing experience. I remember my brothers and I…

I find it rather ironic that fans of WWE — playacting at wrestling — were upset that people were treating the Muppets as real.

So one of those Guest replies was me. And mostly because I was in such a hurry to recommend Sinatra and Riddle as the Gateway that I didn't even check if I was logged in. Sinatra = asshole to me, from all of his dick-swinging interpretations of standards to his more enjoyable interpretations of the hits of his day. …

Can't wait to comment on this one, which is also one of my favorite MM eps. (Perhaps I identify more with Peter, and his quixotic quest to "fit in" to BS that all of us know is beneath him (and us.)
But it's pre-turkey day, and much like my heroine, Julia Child, I'm three pies down and three sheets to the wind. …

I feel rather lucky about my love of Python. Our school was small — maybe 300 for 7-12 — but there were enough Python fans for us to have a small troupe of performers, from 4 to 7 people. We usually did two to three skits per year at the school talent shows, drama competitions, and other local theater venues, and…

That did help — thank you very much; it's exactly what I needed.
However, without your help, I would never have discovered that — for one, the name of the show is not obviously a link — another example of bad, non-intuitive design.

Disappeared. I've been binging Fringe lately, and up until last week, had fun catching up with the old reviews. Now it's a royal pain in the ass to find them, if only because you now need to know the name of the ep to search for it correctly. Another design step backwards.
But they probably don't care, because it's…

You're right — not that many all told. Just more than I had expected. Guess I was being hyperbolic.

I find it a little sad that so many folks actually like the "sleek", shiny look. There is nothing distinctive about this — so many websites out there look like this (many have pointed to Dissolve as a direct comparison) and for me, it is actually worse. Navigating images vs. text is a big no-no for me, and it…

Good to know, but it still speaks to my hatred of annoying, non-intuitive design. (Push everywhere to see what happens nonsense.)
At least I won't have to leave downvotes behind. Thank you.