He has potential! I keep telling myself that!

Todd's from South Dakota, so I'm sure Mike Miller can hook him up with NBA tickets whenever he wants them.

As a diehard Timberwolves fan, I must note that they did this promotion all last season too. It struck me as odd then, but it must have been enough of a hit that they brought it back.

That is an underappreciated all-timer in the canon of classic talk show appearances.

I really don't.

When I interviewed Zippy the Pinhead creator Bill Griffith a while back, he told me Madonna was a massive Zippy fan and would send him unsolicited tickets for her shows whenever she played San Francisco. I don't know what kind of cred that equals, but it's worth something in my book.

Remember when Cleatus fought Iron Man? That was pretty much the peak of televised sports.

Is this where I mention again that a few weeks ago I saw Prince play "Purple Rain" in his pajamas at 5am at Paisley Park? No? OK, carry on.

There was an old guy at my church in '93 who had been the director of Up With People for a while. He was a super nice guy who seemed to have exactly the kind of constant, buoyant positivity you'd expect from a former director of Up With People. But he was in terrible health and needed an oxygen tank and thus kind of…

I know, time limits and celebrity whims and all that, but I was kinda hoping for a Spike Lee anecdote from Crooklyn, or at least something from the incredibly fun-looking set of Blue in the Face.

But Travolta was in both of Jackson's segments as well as the one with Uma (and a brief cameo in the Bruce Willis one). I think he did have the most screen time of anyone, although I'd argue that it's a film without a lead actor or actress.

Here it is. One of my favorite album covers too. It's so literal!

It's weird - that's actually quite a good '90s alt-rock album, but it doesn't feel like a good REM album.

I used to do that in search of MST3K videos. They weren't easy to come by in video shops for some reason, but it was cause for celebration when I actually found one.

I still don't know what "the friend with the cleft asshole" is supposed to mean, but it's a heck of a phrase.

In the original, isn't it "130A"? That's how I always heard it, and I assumed it meant a highway exit number. Given the song's wedding theme, I assume Carson City to be a honeymoon destination, especially since the singer wants her to "send [him] a card."

The original Ed's Redeeming Qualities rendition was almost the first song my kid ever heard. It came up on my delivery room mix just as my wife started the final push. I thought it might bode ill for his first song to be one about an unwanted pregnancy. Fortunately it ended just before he emerged and segued into the…

The ERQ version is much more melancholy and bittersweet. I love it a whole lot. Honestly, Ed's Redeeming Qualities were stellar songwriters across the board. Big Grapefruit Cleanup Job is a massively undervalued album.

Well, Johnny does use the phrase "Thanks for the mammaries" at one point.

His m.o. seems specifically calculated to leave his victim blaming herself and questioning whether she was "asking for it" by being willing to have sex with him in the first place, which is just horrific beyond belief.