One of the best cuts to a wide shot of all time. I've binged the series a few times and I still laugh hysterically at it every time.

To me that just goes to show that all of the effort that went into getting folks to watch The Wire still hasn't been enough.

You would think so, but unfortunately many of them didn't get the memo and continue to use what should have been an immediately dated phrase.

I want to see a list of pop culture that begat these examples of pop culture. Give me more lists with Kolchak: The Night Stalker, dammit!

Did you watch the documentary?

Yeah, while anything resembling a defense of Polanski getting due process will be shouted down around here, that doc was pretty persuasive in presenting the case that the judge was in fact going to ignore everything that had been agreed to by the DA and Polanski and his attorneys and issue the 50-years at sentencing,…

Nope! I am, too. That and lots of other upcoming releases (new Magnetic Fields and new Jarvis Cocker!) has me genuinely excited.

I was just reading about the continued finger pointing in a gossipy HuffPo piece. They're naming names:

And you know what? I love Tomei in My Cousin Vinny, it still holds up as a great comedy, and comedies and comedic roles rarely get recognition by the Academy in the first place. I've always liked that she won.

Simon's speech was amazing. At the next faculty meeting where we discuss textbooks I'm seriously going to submit it for consideration for the customized freshman comp anthology that we use.

Vera Farmiga's turn towards a go-to female lead for the horror genre is as surprising as it is rewarding to watch. Loved her in The Departed and loved to hate her in Up in the Air, and I've been an admirer ever since.

They bitch and moan about a lot of things already, but nothing actually comes of it. This early in the game they won't be running to the press.

Or, given the lack of transparency and those involved (Comey and the GOP that have enabled Trump thus far), effectively nothing will be done.

The beat was rediscovered in the mid-’80s by the nascent hip-hop scene, and went on to provide the driving baseline for everything from Public Enemy’s “Fight The Power” to tracks from Madonna and Sinead O’Connor.

(Distending faces into grotesque shapes is a speciality; remember, with a shudder, that quick glimpse of Samara’s closet handiwork in The Ring).

Porn actress?

I've always kind of wondered if including the cult stuff was an attempt to (loosely, at least) bring Halloween 3 back into the continuity of the series, since the attempt to make an anthology series died with 3 flopping at the box office. They seemed to be doing something similar with making Wynn the Man in Black……

Heh. Yeah I got his character's name wrong, but he's basically one of the two leads.

Oh, cool. Well usually I wouldn't recommend any of the Halloween films except the very first two to anybody but other diehard fans of the series, but since mysticism in horror is already in your wheelhouse, if you haven't already seen it then you might check out 6. In addition to adding the occult angle, it's got an…

Simmons has his shortcomings, obviously, but I, for one, will take the good with the bad. He's done some really great things in addition to all of the eye roll-inducing stuff. I'm looking forward to this.