I was a huge Archie comics fan as a kid in the '80s (and if you follow me on these boards you'll see I still maintain a creepy fascination with them), but my local market didn't air the Archie cartoon. I knew it existed from ads in the '70s back issues I picked up at thrift stores, so it became something of a Holy…

But if she did, would it make it more or less tragic that she eventually became what she's become?

I think you could buy the Silverdome for less than that.

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I did not realize that Kim was just a year younger than me. For some reason the notion of her sharing many of the same beloved cultural memories from my childhood makes me angry and uncomfortable.

I’ll admit I watched and enjoyed the show when it first started, because I really liked getting a look at weird little dives all over the country. Unfortunately, as the show went on and gained popularity, more and more of the featured eateries were neither diners, drive-ins nor dives, until it was basically Guy Fieri…

I don't know how much stock to put in this, but there's this: http://www.citypages.com/20…

I can't get enough The Nine jokes. I mean that sincerely.

Quite the opposite: a full satin pajama set with a long tail. About as much butt coverage as a pair of pajamas can offer, really. The times they are a-changin'.

The Lookout had potential to be something pretty special but settled for being something pretty familiar with a few special elements. JGL and Jeff Daniels are both very good in it. I'd have much preferred to see a more grounded movie about their relationship and skipped over all the crime stuff.

I always think of it as a Michael Jeter movie.

I never watched a second of the Sabrina TV show because as a big fan of the original Archie comics version, I was incensed at the creative liberties the show took. Salem is an orange cat with a rich, internal, non-verbal dialogue! Zelda and Hilda are ugly, aged crones with one foot in colonial times! Della the Head…

It's all true, I'm happy to say. http://blogs.citypages.com/…

I didn't actually have a pancake because I staked out a great spot near the stage and didn't want to lose it. But they were there, and that's enough.

I stood 20 feet from Prince as he played a mashup of “Crimson and Clover” and “Wild Thing” in his pajamas at Paisley Park at 5:30 in the morning.

It's pretty damn close to an early plotline from The Boondocks comic strip, actually.

A chair or a human boy?

Some young schmuck copywriter in the Paramount PR department is on cloud nine right now after not only getting to write the phrase "The director ducked and wrested the air conditioner from his attacker," but actually seeing said phrase distributed to the international media.

… and then only if there's a Hard Times wardrobe set sold separately.

What percentage of American creativity is currently devoted to imagining what characters from one familiar pop cultural domain would be like if they were
recontextualized to a different familiar pop cultural domain? Gotta be upwards
of 60%, right?