After being blown away by Praying and Woman, I thought I might have sold Kesha's early stuff short. Tried to listen to Tik Tok and Timber again and nope… she has this affected accent that just grates on me. The new stuff shows that she can actually sing and write outside of that obnoxious persona.

So… why is the 9-year-old's opinion relevant, again? My son's 8. He likes some really stupid stuff.

That's a shame. Amazing Colossal Man and Quest of the Delta Knights are two of my favorite episodes.

I think instead of queuing up for this I'll just watch Blast from the Past again. Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, Chris Walken…and one of my favorite lines of dialog ever: "My lucky stars, a Negro!"

So was Drive.

Things happened so fast, and wrapped up so tritely, that I was expecting there to be another twist. Like, "Oh, they're doing that patented "power of love" ending, this must be a commentary on how many times they've gone to that well, now let's see what happens when that fails." I was expecting to learn this was…

That's why Roger Ebert was always one of my favorites. I didn't agree with him 100% of the time, but he usually made the review about the movie rather than himself. He wasn't afraid to champion something that wasn't great but was fun, or to say, "I didn't like this at all, but here's what it's like, so you can tell if…

Edelstein's review ended up being so breathtakingly sexist because it was almost 100% self-indulgence. The majority of the article is spent constructing "clever" turns of phrase. He's a critic so in love with his own voice it doesn't matter what movie he's reviewing or who might read the review. He's writing for an…

She used to look good to me. Now I find her…. lightly scatalogical.

I think it's pretty nifty. Love the occasional nod to goth culture, like the reverb bass from "Friday I'm in Love," or the "This Corrosion" chorus on Rain in Soho. It's true the album could use one or two more high-energy songs like that first track. There's no trace of the intensity of, say, The Young Thousands or…

The only movie I came close to walking out of was First Knight, the 90's attempt to 90's up King Arthur. The girl I was desperately trying to date was enthralled by it or I would have bounced. Richard Gere as American-accented Lancelot, a catatonic Sean Connery… there's a scene where Lancelot has to run a "gauntlet,"…

Yeah, well maybe then it's too late!

Werewolf is one of the best episodes of the entire run. The song Where Oh Werewolf, the cast unable to pronounce the word "werewolf," the Joe Estevez… so good.

Marv's makeup was hot garbage in this one. You could see the seams, the appliances didn't move right with his face… he looked more like Eric Stoltz in the Mask than a battle-scarred rough-hewn dude.

Small point of order: In general, protestant churches tend to pass around the communion rather than go up to the front. The Communion drive-by is a Catholic thing. I grew up in a small-town Baptist church and we always passed the wafers & juice (no wine, because Jesus doesn't want anyone to drink, and in fact his…

Not only that, but he gives her shit about fashion being a frou-frou, inconsequential career when his life goal is to be a chef at a fancy restaurant. Dude, unless you're joining the Peace Corps or fighting world hunger on a bigger level than serving haute cuisine, shut the fuck up.

Heh, the Exorcist theme sounds like the beginning of a Trans-Siberian Orchestra Christmas song.