I completely forgot about the baby until you just mentioned it. What a weird early subplot that they’ve already seemingly brushed under the rug.

Frasier really needs a peer to bounce off of. Lyndhurst is great at what he’s required to do, but it’s mostly just jokes about drinking and being a bad professor which makes a poor replacement for Niles.

The wife and I binged the available episodes this weekend, and yeah, it’s just really good.

This Gen X-er grew up on re-runs of Jeffersons and Sanford and Son.

I’m not a Lanthimos super-fan (though I liked The Favourite a good deal), but this has been my most highly anticipated movie for a while now, it just looks fantastic and odd and hilarious, and I’m loving the stylized visuals that we’ve seen in the trailers. Can’t wait to see this (I don’t think it will be coming to my…

Good god what a legacy. Man flew in more than 50 air missions for the Air Force during WW2, came home and made some of the most influential TV shows ever. We wouldn’t have ANY of the shows we like today without him, and I especially appreciate him pushing the agenda with actual, impactful issues during the 70s.

Wait, was Norman Lear... WOKE!?!?!?

I disagree, I think it can be sad regardless of a person’s age. It is definitely not a great tragedy, but it’s still sad. There are a lot of long-lived people in my family. My great grandma died in her mid 90s when I was in my early 20's. I remember offering my condolences to my grandma (her daughter, in her 70s at…

Anyone else picturing Lear two weeks ago sitting in his armchair, muttering “I am going to outlast that evil prick Kissinger if it’s the last thing I do”?

Congratulations, Norman.

We need a million more Norman Lears.

RIP to one of the greatest sitcom producers of al time. 

His shows are some of my earliest TV moments. Sitting in front (and too close) of the big zenith color tv and watching early 70's sitcoms. His work is solidly historic.

RIP to a true legend. Television today wouldn’t be what it is without Norman Lear.

I remember watching all these shows with my parents when I was just a Li’l Funkhouser. I remember my dad sorta sympathizing with Archie and really disliking Maude. Luckily he has softened some over the years as he approaches 90.

You can’t be sad for someone that made it to 101 and was with it up until the end. His legacy will live on and his vision of what network television can be will be missed. All you can do in situations like this is thank him for all of his work and wisdom over the years.

At the risk of sounding hopelessly square and plebeian, I actually like Lee’s recording; it’s just an unpretentious ditty of people having fun, and it’s over in two minutes. Pretty much the platonic ideal of a secular Christmas song.

If YouTube comments have taught me anything, it’s that I have to say that this is REAL music, back before that autotune shit was on everything! That should net me a couple of hundred replies, at least a thousand likes, and one person complaining about Obama.

The thing that surprises me most about all of this is that Brenda Lee isn’t even 80 years old yet. She sounded 80 when she was 14. 

If you have the original 45 rpm single of “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”, flip it over for another gem:

Of course it’s popular. We are solidly in the 1950s again. Not economically, unfortunately.
Christmas music gives me the pip. What he did to Rachel Evan Wood and Taylor Momsen are horrible and I can’t stand him, but I wish stores would play Marilyn Manson songs from Thanksgiving to New Years.