Did you listen to Trump's speech? He's back from the doldrums, and he's a madman raving about a fantasy world. Says four percent (or whatever) growth means we won't have enough energy without coal. Etc. etc. At every assertion of this nonsensical future, his crowd cheered like the paid claque for a time share…

Bitches Brew was the greatest rock album and it wasn't even rock.

That's why they call it Xeno's Paradox. In other words, was Nickelodeon's Big Time Rush mocking (with bigotry) Bon Jovi, in their invocation of the famous story of the tortoise and the hare? I present to you the evidence of the xenomorphism in this case:

Plenty of people disliked GWAR already for spewing that nasty stage fluid on their bomber jackets.

What made them such a good bridge team, anyway? I hope they didn't cheat.

That civil war show has terrible accents, but Braindead is a gem, and 10 Cloverfield of course, with John fk'ng Goodman. She's a bit of a clotheshorse in Braindead (every day a new outfit from Nordstroms at Tysons I'm guessing, based on the character and/or actress), but the costume at the end of 10 Cloverfield is…

Nikki has little backstory so far. I wonder if she might be somebody's sister. Also wondering if Gloria's trip to Los Angeles will remain a dead-end. The "Ah Jeez" podcast out of Minnesota Public Radio suggests the Stussey family fortune possibly deriving from toilet manufacture may play a part. But I'm hoping for…

I used to think Joe Namath's feet were small for a quarterback. At the University of Alabama you can stand in the impressions of his cleats pressed into the sidewalk around the campus bell tower. Years later I went back and realized all the team captains had small shoes until about 1980 when they became large. (Or did…

Farrell was the linchpin of the movie that was the turning point for many in their appraisal of philosopher filmmaker Terrence Malick. He married Pocahontas but all the talk about the film at the time was "ughh, Colin Farrell." I thought he was fine. He does Terrence Malick's wistfully important gazes somewhat better…

OK, I will. "Beagling" is an alternative to fox hunting, which uses larger hounds.

I sense a pro-Fox conspiracy.

It's a Playskool version of Downfall, with imaginary legislation instead of imaginary armies. Sean Spicer tried to explain Trump's tweet promising more money for health care as due to the "savings" in his one page bullet-pointed (with wide baggy margins) budget proposal. So, "savings" are cuts which are "more…

I watched the Sean Spicer press conference and he described for almost fifteen minutes what a good and historic trip it had been. Spicer's rendition was cogent enough and I welcome him if he chooses to leave the White House. Partly he was just eating up time and then split asap when pressed to come up with a specific…

There's a place for kids movies that do not induce vomiting for the adults forced to watch them.

Planet of the Apes became Planning of the Apes Movies. Worked much better on cheap sets in the 1960s/70s with just enough humor. There's even a touch of Sergio Leone in those originals. Now the whole frame is packed with Corporate McCorporate Face calculation.

It could be a bit shabby, but let a lot a second line actors stretch out their chops. Brian Austin Green, Garret Dillahunt, Dean Winters. Not so much Busy Phillips, Leven Rambin and Stephanie Jacobson, for some reason. Then again, the leading roles by Summer Glau and Shirley Manson were memorable.

I thought it was the state takeover of the local government? Racial politics can be toxic.

They don't realize that's a minimum job requirement for the job, President. Even George H. W. Bush was said to have high charisma in person. The camera adds twenty pounds of ice, as McLuhan more or less said.

Davis brooked no compromise and at the time stood for an embrace of black audiences which was hardly returned in popularity. Yet he did not limit himself to some pure genre of jazz. Fusion, rock, funk, etc. So that would be the appeal to Cosby I think.

I, for one, welcome communications director Mike Dubke for exiting the White House.