Billboard in those days was based off phoned in reports from stores and radio stations. It didn't take much effort at all for those reports to be manipulated by record companies.

Aberdeen people! He was from Aberdeen!

Holy crap, Ashton Kutcher as Eb is probably the most perfect casting of all time.

The references to having stuff on LP and tape brings up how many of each do you own, and would they be easier/harder to prune?
And why Juvenile sold 4 million CDs but didn't have much impact, well it was 1998. Stuff like Lou Bega and Eiffel 65 sold multimillions over just one song. What were we thinking?

Read "The Bad Guys Won" about the 86 Mets if you haven't already.
BTW, for all their trouble Darryl still hit 335 homers and Dwight still won 194 games. So even their unmet potential was still impressive.

Wait a minute, how on earth is a 45 member committee gonna work? This screams either (1) tokenism, or (2) only two or three members do actually any work, and the rest are just looking for excuses to hang around.

Best thing about the whole grunge/indie era? Someone can mention some random bar in Olympia and I can say "yeah I totally know where that is"
BTW, I wonder what Hanna's reaction to https://www.youtube.com/wat… this song is?

So we all agree watching fireworks on TV is awful, but which is better: watching them in person or lighting your own? I never do it because I live in a dense tree-heavy area, but lighting your own is so much fun. Especially if you live next to an Indian reservation.

Josh the thing that strikes me as weird is the near total abcense of certain genres: R&B, classical, and especially jazz. I mean if I found out a critic didn't own any Aretha Franklin or Coltrane, I would think "how can you comment on music with any authority?"

Wait a minute "White Chicks" cost 37 million to make? And that's not counting marketing? This screams "accounting dodge".

There's actually a cafe in Tacoma called "Little Jerry's" that has a Seinfeld theme.

Don't forget Zip's, which basically kept me from starving in college. I believe they're only E. Washington/Idaho though.

In Washington State, only two outlets still exist. Which never made sense to me, why bother franchising if you're barely going to have any outlets. BTW, they invented the ketchup/mayo mix known as fry sauce.

The requirements of 90s record clubs top my "uttterly inane stuff I'll remember on my deathbed" list.

At least that's better than what I ate as a kid; flour tortillas filled with ketchup, PBJ, or baloney with mayo.

But other people (the scriptwriters, Jerry's longtime sound engineer, an MDA director) who claimed to have seen it also think it's awful. They are more "the movie's got too much Jerry self pity" than anything else.

Well he was saying well into the 80s he wanted to see the movie completed, and still spoke of it with some pride. Then for years he refused to even mention the movie; only recently did he openly badmouth it.

If you want to go really way back, Uncle Bentley on "Bachelor Father" and Uncle Bill on "Family Affair" were classic examples.

But the difference is early Nick at Nite staples like My Three Sons and Dobie Gillis had totally disappeared off the map when they started running them in the 80s. Shows like Friends have never gone away, so there's no nostalgia/camp value.

OK from somebody who's not familiar with the scene…
—Is there any difference between Oi! and skinhead (however you define it)?
—In the U.S. skinheads have always been equated with neo-Nazis, while the impression I got was that in the UK it was more a general tough-guy working class scene that could be racist,…