Chief was the highlight for sure, but I was also loving Hodgman and Dr. Green. Just a great all around episode with a loose, goofy feel.

It's possible that there are things that delight me more than seeing Julie Klausner's name in the HH guest slot, but there aren't many coming to mind.

I'm so glad PFT's Hilarious World of Depression episode got mentioned. Paul was already one of my favorite people, and this episode just made me appreciate him all the more. His experiences struck so many chords with me, and as usual John Moe did a marvelous job of guiding the conversation while making sure to let his…

I see a mashup of Werner Herzog protagonists: the social grace of Kaspar Hauser, the diplomacy of Aguirre, the humility of Fitzcarraldo, the common sense of Timothy Treadwell, the groundedness of Stroszek, the quiet dignity of Bad Lieutenant, the grasp on reality of that guy who never stops laughing in Even Dwarfs…

If it wasn't for the weird new age babble interludes, I might even call The Rainbow Children a great album, and New Power Soul isn't too far behind. Also, I was lucky enough to see him play at Paisley Park with 3rdeyegirl a few years ago and I genuinely loved that rockier sound he was playing with toward the end.

Yeah, I will go to bat for 3121 and Musicology all damn day, and honestly just about everything he did post-WB has a good bit of merit.

I'm probably never going to see that because I haven't heard a good thing about it and I love the original, but if it got even a handful of people to watch Death Game then it was worth it.

I would go so far as to say he was the only thing that did work about that movie.

If I might drop a suggestion, go watch Scorpion starring Dutch martial artist Tonny Tulleners. It is in every regard a generic 1980s action movie, to the point that it crosses over into being massively entertaining. The pull quote on the video box says nothing about the movie, and is instead Chuck Norris testifying…

Like in that Prince song!

I had a rather butch friend in New Orleans who said she got a lot of confused and angry looks the first time she showed up for a party wearing her "DUKE" hoodie and had to spend the night explaining that she'd just graduated from the university of the same name.

If that's what it takes to have you, might I strongly, strongly suggest The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go, in which Mason plays a Chinese-Mexican international crime lord squaring off against Joycean novelist/rough-trade rentboy Jeff Bridges? It's directed by Burgess Meredith, who also plays Mason's Chinese…

I'll grant that he squandered a lot of goodwill via a whole bunch of ill-advised career choices, but nothing is going to change the fact that Coolio's It Takes a Thief is a solid, authentically gritty chunk of '90s hip-hop. Same goes for his contributions to WC and the Maad Circle.

Oh yeah, I guess she is pretty famous. Although as a gossip columnist, not a film critic, which bolsters my suspicion that this quote had nothing to do with the movie.

I own a VHS edition of Taxi Driver from the mid-'90s whose cover image places Jodie Foster in the foreground with DeNiro peering out of his cab in the back. The pull-quote, from some less-than-famous source who I can't remember, reads "Jodie Foster is delightful!"

Creak.
Slam.
Sit.

"Donald, Stern says you should engage in socially acceptable behavior once in a while, and to learn to differentiate between good and bad attention. And maybe start therapy purple monkey dishwasher!"

Yeah, as glad as I am to have easier access to so many of my favorites, this still bums me out a little bit for how antithetical it is to Prince's prickly designs.

Oh yeah, absolutely. Ray Stevens is awful and was never particularly funny ("Guitarzan" is kinda catchy, at least), but he also can't be written off as just a guy who had a couple of novelty hits ages ago.

I hate that I've had to give up on Hard Nation, as it was my favorite new podcast of last year and I love the weird little world of the Hard brothers, but every week I look at the description and my stomach just drops thinking about the real-world well they're dipping from. It's not so much a "too soon" situation as…