This is the internet. Proofreading is crowd-sourced.

Oh, and I'd also just add that I think there is a fundamental difference (to borrow an anthropological term) in the "aura" of the pop culture item if you encounter it as the preserved artifact of a bygone age (such as a vintage sitcom on a DVD) rather than as part of mainstream programming.

Sure, availability is fantastic. But in terms of actually propagating culture in the real world, availability without privileged exposure means very little.

Widening of the Pop Culture Generation Gap
I was born in 1978, grew up in the 80s, and one thing that strikes me as very different about my childhood than current kids and teens is that I got a solid exposure to the pop culture my parents grew up with. Gilligan's Island and Brady Bunch reruns were on network TV in the…

What's wrong with audio?
Though I understand the economics of it, I'm a little bothered by the suggestion implicit in this kind of project that audio-only is somehow deficient, that the material somehow hasn't reached it's full potential until there's a visual component to go with it. This same pressure seems to be…

I think it would have to be a pretty mind-blowingly phenomenal guest appearance to dethrone David Duchovy on "The Larry Sanders Show" in the pantheon of greatest twisted guest appearances ever.

With the exception of its ending — which seems oddly abridged and abstract — I think "Shadow of the Vampire" is great. It certainly wins some points for a memorable take on the vampire mythos.

Yeah, the whole super-soldier stuff is giving me a real strong late-period X-Files vibe that I'm not thrilled about. Mr. Jones was at least a somewhat interesting and mysterious villain. The super-soldiers seem like a lame cliche.

There are 96 ridges on every checker…except this one.
When Olivia started hearing the fly cleaning itself, did anyone else think: "There's some milk in the fridge that's about to go bad…"

Elvis Shmelvis, you made me think of another peculiar bit of behavior. If the Morpher stashed the nurse's body in the boiler room, why wouldn't he have gone ahead and burned it at the outset? Was he really planning on getting chased? It seems pretty risky to keep a corpse around just in case you might get the…

I, too, was confused by the mechanics of how the Morpher steals bodies. How were there three bodies in the boiler room at the end? Do we have to presume that the Morpher dumped the nurses body there (with bullet holes in it) and then lured the chasers into that room? Did he shed the nurse body? The other crime scenes…

"I'll show you the life of the mind" is my go-to pick-up line.

CGI in Look Who's Talking?
Hmm… I believe there's nary a CGI effect in Look Who's Talking? It's just voice-over on top of unmodified baby footage. Though I'm not familiar with the later entries in the series, so maybe things got out of hand, effects-wise after #2.

"From Hell" is only loosely connected to its source material. It' s a fair enough Jack the Ripper movie, but it's a lousy adaptation.

See, for me the floating scene didn't read as hokey so much as unimaginative. And it gave me the impression of the creative team bumping up against the limits of their talent. I think Breaking Bad is a very good show, but this season has convinced me that it falls a little short of genius. In fact, my slightly…

Bell Reveal
So, it looked to me like the William Bell introduction was deliberately shot like the traditional "let's keep Nimoy in the shadows so that it's a shocking surprise for the viewer when steps forward and they recognize him!"

Well, on reflection, I might have to say that the best part of Young Sherlock Holmes is definitely the score and not the plot, but I think as a movie it holds up just fine. And all the hallucination sequences are gold — even the killer pastries.

I'm not sure I buy the intensity of that "empathic connection." I mean, if you poll most audiences for Hostel, do most viewers feel shaken to their core and profoundly, viscerally pained? Or do they tend to come out saying things like "It was a thrill-ride!" or "That shit was SICK! Right on!"

Yeah, the recording idea is sound when there's a stylus of some sort that transmits the vibration into a linear groove in the soft medium (be it clay or wax or even molten glass). The problem I had with the glass scheme in tonight's episode was that there was no stylus. You just have the molten plane of glass reacting…

Chris Columbus
Despite the crap of recent years, lets not forget that Chris Columbus also wrote "Gremlins" and "Young Sherlock Holmes" (and screenplay work on "The Goonies") — if he doesn't get a lifetime pass for those, he deserves at least, like thirty years. So if he's still producing crap in 2015, then we can…