Howl will be gone soon, by all accounts, so if you're more amenable to Stitcher Premium, you're in luck!

I can see that for sure. But I like the results of the UCB program consistently enough that I have no problem with that system. If anything, it seems potentially stifling for the performers more than audience. As an MFA myself, I've seen how easy it is to fall into a feedback loop of submitting your work only to…

Anybody else check out Classic Showbiz with Kliph Nesteroff on Howl? I was going to describe it as You Must Remember This for comedy, which turns out to be exactly what it's advertised as. The first episode, about the mob-sponsored rise and fall of accidental nightclub comic Allan Drake, was pretty solid but I get the…

The election is far enough removed that I'm again able to listen to Hard Nation without getting nauseated by reality, and it remains a pretty great show. One undervalued element of it is how often they showcase lesser-known improvisers. They still pull in a lot of the big names from the Earwolfverse, but they'll also…

I liked Killer Frost in the Justice League Unlimited cartoon, where she managed to be the most sadistic member of a supervillain conglomerate. I did not like Killer Frost in the Batman: The Brave and the Bold cartoon, where she was the crazy ex-girlfriend of half of Firestorm.

Cool. Now do the one where the internet hasn't actually annihilated the formerly feasible dream of making a living writing substantive articles for pop culture publications and/or journalistic outlets.

It's the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb that will bring us together.

Please do not be alarmed. We are about to engage… the orb. Please do not move while the orb is engaging. Moving will disrupt calibration of… the orb. Please wait while we calibrate… the orb. Please do not look away from… the orb. The orb is now calibrating… The orb is still calibrating… The orb has completed…

My high school band named two of our albums* after quotes from Antonio on Wings: our second album was God Forgive Me, Willard Scott and the third was Take Your Hands Off Me Or I'll Use My Pepper Spray. I liked that show.

Harry Goz's work on Sealab is straight-up brilliance, and the show never recovered from his loss. There were a few pretty great post-Goz episodes but it was clear that the sheer lunacy Goz invested in Captain Murphy was the heart of the show.

Speaking of Crossballs, where's Mary Birdsong been lately?

He was roly, he was poly, and I said, "Holy moly!
You got a lot of whiskers on your chinny chin chin"
He allowed he was proud of the hairy little crowd
On the point of his jaw where the skin should've been
"Gets cool for a fool going out every Yule
For a day on a sleigh when the cold went low
So the beard may be weird but…

"My name? Uh, my name is…" *glances around room, spots stack of comic books and newspaper headline about Trump rally* "Archie. Archie Borders!"

The half-second between the opening meandering and the first solo is my favorite pause in all of music.

Sitting on my parents' bed with a small boombox, hearing "Cowgirl in the Sand" for the first time on my local classic rock station on a gloomy autumn evening was one of the most transformative musical experiences of my life. Those solos made me realize that music didn't have to fit into any recognizable shape to be…

People are always gonna bag on "Freebird," and I get why, and it's probably somewhat deserved, but fuck it, "Freebird" is a great fucking song. I got to see Built to Spill play it note for not on one of their early '00s tours and it remains one of the most fulfilling things I've seen on stage.

Maggot Brain

And seems to not only revel in it, but get off on it.

I interpreted the line about "We hired Georgina and Walter to help care for my parents" as an oblique way of saying that they were brought in specifically to become vessels for the grandparents, not that they were actual caregivers, but I could see it either way. They did both turn up in Rose's photo box of past…

Cripes. That's a bigger revelation than my next-day realization that she'd more than likely banged both of her grandparents.