No "The Fury"? Technically it just blows a guy's head from his body instead of dissolving the whole head in a pile of goo, but it was still fuggin' cool.

Good point. There's a difference between allowing someone a chance to change, and celebrating that person's history of mentally-ill actions as a joke. Tyson winning people over with a one-man show about his troubled behavior is fine. This does seem a bit iffier (although I did laugh at the McCarthy references.)

Ernie's got to feel a bit let down doing meaningless NBA regular-season games after the baseball playoffs. But he is still saintly.

"My Sweet Lord" is about Hinduism, and goodness knows which one of its gazillion gods Harrison is referencing. But that's OK. Another favorite Christian song I heard in church a lot as a kid was the beautiful "Morning Has Broken," written by . . . um . . . a total Christian! Yay White American Stuff!

I always wondered why "Sgt. Pepper" was considered such a great album (I like, maybe, half the songs, and 50% is sub-par for a Beatles record.) As I got older and followed bands in my time, I realized . . . how stunning was it to be a Beatles fan when their shit was new? Not that it's dated, the good stuff holds up…

Or just, you know, people dying because Rumsfeld is a giant assbag. He laughs at that, too. A lot. Because stoned?

It's Gonna Be A Long Night might fit modern cowboys a little better

Nah, he's alright. Far worse are out there. Rogen's made me laugh more than once.

You did say succinct. But that's OK. I liked the rant. Not sure I got it, but I liked it.

Just in time for "Mad Men" to be done showing new episodes, and George R.R. Martin to say "I quit, I can't figure out the rest of it."

You might check out "The Rookie" then, which also has a ballplayer and his dad (Brian Cox.) But be forewarned, and have things to blow your nose on handy.

Good Lord, I don't even recall what Disney schmaltz had "Baby Mine" in it, but I know the tune and the words . . .

My good sir/madam, you will find a more suitable girlfriend . . . probably have already.

Kermit is wimpy and emotional but also wryly sly and intelligent. Or, Jim Henson's Kermit was, and Paul Williams's terrific song. Not hard to see why both kids and adults responded to the character and the tune.

OK, silly story. I've been working with brain-injured adults for a long time. One I worked with, 15 years ago or so, was a abuse victim scared of people. She had nightmares about abuse, and one of the only things that made her happy was seeing movies with monkeys given anthropomorphic, human attributes. Those…

The score is used all over the place, presumably because it's both suitably generic-heroic and utterly forgotten.

Weird that Duvall, who is crazy, had the good sense to avoid that thing. Who knows what Carlin would have done. He always seemed to need the money . . .

Oddly, the name "Adolf" has fallen out of favor lately.

Which mother's maiden name and first childhood pet has pop culture relevance? WE WILL KNOW IF YOU LIE

One of my names is sullied by former president (dead, that's why former) Millard Fillmore, who signed the Fugitive Slave Act, allowing bounty hunters to track down escaped people in the North and shanghai them back to plantations. That's . . . that's pretty damn bad. Screw you, Millard.