I'm a dedicated devourer of obscure and inadvisable trash films. I've watched many MST3K films on their own, un-riffed, and loved them as the imperfect bundles of skewed visions, budgetary afterthoughts, and exploitative oddities they are. Watching the MST3K crew tear into them does nothing to diminish their value in…

As a guy who actively seeks out indefensible garbage movies from the past 4 decades, I hold Amazon Prime head and shoulders above any other general-interest streaming service. Ain't no Netflix or Hulu offering me Three Fantastic Supermen or The Cynic, The Rat, and The Fist.

Yeah, it seems inevitable. The Howl app has been acting glitchier than usual for me, so I presume they're not doing much maintenance on it anymore. It's never been the greatest app but I've gotten used to it and have always liked it more than I do Stitcher. Still, I'm fine with it as long as my subscription rate…

It's slight and silly and very much in keeping with the McKenna brand.

It can also be a great way to spin familiar guests with existing chemistry into different directions. I re-listened to a Weird Al/Lord ALW episode a while back and was surprised to find myself genuinely crying laughing at the WYR segment.

I tried to win my true-crime-loving friend over to HH this week by playing him the Karen Kilgariff episode. He laughed a fair bit, but I'm not sure he'll be returning to the well. (He was not nearly as amused by intern Andy turning into a car and roving around California with the donor shout-outs as I would've hoped.)…

I get why he scaled back on playing the games, but I do wish he'd break them out again for select guests. As I recall, Kevin Pollak was audibly bummed that they didn't play Would You Rather when he was on.

Especially since D'Amato's been dead for 20 years. Which doesn't make me any less interested in hearing him dish on Anthropophagus.

I'm almost a little disappointed when Drew Tarver plays an explicitly Southern character, because I'm hugely amused by his complete inability to keep Georgia from creeping into his dialogue.

That's fair. Scott Aukerman certainly figures more heavily in my life than I would expect him to in the average network star's. Still, I wouldn't think one would need to be a diehard CBB listener to grasp the goofy intent behind something like "what's your SNL dream cast from a pool of Sex and the City characters."

The Thin Lizzy bit seemed like the type of gag they could do back then that they'd be more tentative about now that the show is a much bigger deal. I appreciate that.

Fabulous. I just re-listened to the PFT episode of Teacher's Lounge and cracked up all over again.

I had a lot of free time this week so I poked around some of the Howl archives and was pleased with what I found.

The characters did a good job of scooping that one out of the dirt, yeah. The Dropping the Soap folks had evidently never heard CBB before, judging by their oblivious reactions to Scott's general schtick. It almost made me wish they'd played a round of Would You Rather, just to see how far off the mark everybody…

I'm very excited about crossover month on Spontaneanation. Paul and the Bajillion crew have a ludicrous level of chemistry. I absolutely could've listened to them babble amongst themselves for twice as long. And today it's the Superego fellas? Glory be.

I do give Patterson some credit on that count. The only one of "his" books I've read is a memoir of a kid growing up with Tourette's syndrome that Patterson purportedly co-wrote with the boy's father. It was a pretty illuminating look at a topic I had never given much thought to, and I'm sure it wouldn't have been…

Baby looked at you?

Let's make the water turn black.

I always like when Between Two Ferns comes up in the news, because it reminds me to rewatch the Charlize Theron installment. That's one of my all-time favorite moments of internet comedy. Her point blank rejection of Zach at the end is a thing of cruel beauty.

My girlfriend/future wife and I drove 6 hours to Fargo, ND for the coming of Y2K. We didn't know anyone there, had no plans once we got there, and barely had the money for a hotel room, but we figured that whether or not society fell apart, starting the Willennium in Fargo was the right thing to do. At the stroke of…