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There's a limerick to be made rhyming "Hanna Schygulla" with "Pascagoula," but I'll leave that to someone with more poetic talent.

You're confusing distortion with gain and tube compression, I think. Distortion is a result of gain, but gain itself isn't distortion. VH's tone is more powerful and dynamic that just distorted. The transparency and articulation is because he's turning a non-master volume Marshall amp and pushing it to the brink of

The thing is, his tone is really not that distorted. It's pretty clean as hard rock or metal tones go. Just a shitload of gain, but he never used any distortion pedals that I know of, he just went straight through the amp and turned it up loud, using a power soak to adjust the voltage until it hit the sweet spot.

In the car I once"sung" or hummed along or whatever, perfectly, note for note, the guitar solo section of the Allman Brothers "Blue Sky," which is, I dunno a good four minutes. Drove my wife bonkers, just annoyed the shit out of her. Although actually that was before we were married, now that I think of it. Now

Honk! Honk!

Answer: Don't.

Mama told him not to come.

Dr. Johnny Fever's disco alter ego?

I'm detecting some Ellen Greene.

When Jarvis made that comment to Stark on the phone that she's "not suspicious," he was just referring to the surprise birthday party that Stark and Jarvis have planned for her.

Lady and the Tramp, because you're five years old, and you already watched two movies today, and it's time for bed, young man.

Rutger Hauer can do anything.

Bill Cosby: "Polanski? Pfft. Whatta lightweight!"

Nah, never watched CBS soaps. I was all about One Life to Live, All My Children, and General Hospital.

I saw part of the first episode, but I don't know, something about it rubbed me the wrong way. Too whimsical? I fully admit that I didn't give it a fair shake.

The only other thing I can think of that I ever saw Ellen Greene in was Talk Radio, which also happens to be a stage adaptation.

Whenever I see an article with fewer than ten comments that wasn't published just a few minutes ago, I assume, "Oh, it must be a book."

That sounds like an answer in one of those awful Jeopardy! categories where the answers are two disparate words that rhyme.

Yep, once the focus of the show expanded to include the weird and wacky townsfolk, Newhart became truly sublime. My favorite episode was one that was a parody of the Orson Welles War of the Worlds radio show panic, except in this case the entire town is put into a state of emergency because they inexplicably think

I certainly had no idea until I read this review.