Simpsons allusions aside, I'm actually a huge fan of Grimes already (I think "Flesh without Blood," for example, is a perfect song). This just makes my schoolboy crush on her grow exponentially bigger.

From glancing at the tiny thumbnail on my phone's screen and before reading the headline I thought it was going to be about a film in which Daniel Day-Lewis plays Einstein.

*points at phone*

It was the episode "Thanksgiving" (the same one where Uncle Jeff recruits Jonah to run for Congress). Dan goes to Amy's family's house because he's just confronted Tom James about the latter working in references during interviews to clients of Sidney Purcell's lobbying firm. He shows Amy (and her family) clips from…

The anthology I use to teach my African American Literature course has Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone, which I love, but given that this is coming out in time for when we'll be covering Wilson next semester, I might have to find an inexpensive way to sub in Fences instead.

Singing that now-classic song was Thurl Ravenscroft, the voice of Kellogg’s Tony The Tiger, even though he wasn’t credited on the original special: Geisel himself called newspapers across the country in an attempt to correct this oversight (many thought Karloff was performing the song as well).

Yeah I have a bootleg with that name that I bought like 15-20 years ago. It has most of tracks from PHM, each with different mixes than the PHM versions (usually with even more synths), and a couple of tracks that didn't make the album, "Purest Feeling" and "Maybe Just Once." I think it begins with an instrumental…

As a fellow lifelong Pats fan, I really loved watching Do Your Job for several reasons, but first and foremost because it humanized BB. It's available on YouTube at the moment if you haven't seen it:

Psst! Mr. McHale! Your line is supposed to be "And someday, you will know it by its true name: diabetes."

I keep telling you: He's 103 years old, and he's dead.

Yeah, I never got around to checking it out, actually. From what I've heard from people that I trust, it wouldn't resonate with me.

Thinly-veiled writing about SNL gave us 30 Rock, so I'm eternally grateful. I'll just ignore the rest.

I was only a casual viewer of DS9, but a bit of me always wondered if the reason that Sisko kept calling Dax "Old Man" wasn't so much a term of affection for a beloved mentor, but to remind himself that they have known each other for years under different circumstances, current uber-attractiveness be damned. I thought…

I dug the Radiohead covers and also the cover of Nine Inch Nails' "Something I Can Never Have," a song that still stands out for me from an album from which I've otherwise largely moved on, give or take a couple of other songs ("Head Like a Hole" still rocks).

I took it that she wants the $9.99 to be seen as a charitable donation to support reproductive rights. But yeah, I don't see that many people willing to pay it for just her, and I'm someone who remembers her somewhat fondly from her occasional appearances on TDS during the Kilborn era.

"…drop in on the Midwest (though not Chicago, regrettably)…"

I remember reading his lukewarm review (okay, to be fair I think it was a B+) of the season 6 premier ("Dance Like Nobody's Watching") after the second or third time I binged the entire series and getting irrationally upset that he didn't praise it for the perfect episode of television that I think it is. Your post…

She always wanted to be a Tenenbaum. A bloodthirsty, flesh-eating Tenenbaum.

It's been however many years since the book first came out that I read it, but I seem to remember Clarice and Hannibal going to the opera or something after they eat Goodfellas and they have some exchange that suggests that not only are they romantically involved, but Clarice has fully adopted Hannibal's cannibalism.…

Iirc she objected specifically to Clarise becoming romantically involved with Hannibal and helping him carry out the murder of what's-his-name—Ray Liotta's character in the adaptation. She didn't think that was true to the character as she envisioned her.