Holy shit, did he do the backing vocals on “When I First Came to Town”? That may be my favorite example of backing vocals ever. 

So sad. R.I.P.

Um. That statement from Cave and the band is kind of  beautiful.

I can only listen to Kanye for about 4 minutes before I become bored, tired and slightly ashamed.  This seems like a good match.  

I started college in the days before the Internet was a huge thing, and when I wanted to kill some time reading Savage Love, I’d head to the periodicals room of the library and pull out the past few issues of the Village Voice. Then I’d look at Christgau’s Consumer Guide to figure out what music to buy. Sometimes I’d…

I&Os press release said that they actually did just that. Makes this whole controversy even dumber.

I’m proud to be on the bad side of white supremacists and alt-righters.

BONG

RIP AV Undercover :(

Here are Chuck Jones’s rules for Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner cartoons. I can’t imagine they’ll adhere to #4, but the creativity forced by those rules is what made the original shorts work.

I’m taking this news rather hard. Even with stiff competition from the Internet, I never thought this day would come.

Fuck you, Smarties and Dots are proof that god loves us and good still exists in the world. And bonus points for Canadian Smarties that are a superior version of M&Ms.

What about Gentle Ben’s illustrious career?

Which sketch troupe? I must see that!

The most amazing thing I saw on Springer was this my-husband’s-fucking-the-babysitter drama which wasn’t even shown as being funny - it was just dead sad, hurtfully sad, these people’s pain playing out with crushing seriousness with the audience’s every attempted nudge toward trashy catharsis getting snuffed out in…

Champagne & Caviar, no mas.

RIP. He was so big in the 80s that Carson would crack jokes about him in his monologue--which, back then,  was how you knew you had made it.

Netflix really needs to chill with the original content. A good 75% of it is garbage. That being said, I'm excited for Bojack and American Vandal

What do people expect for unlimited streaming at $9-12 a month or whatever it is now? Seems like a decent lineup...

every hum album is a masterpiece. i had the honor of seeing their reunion tour a few years back - it was spectacular to feel like my 17 year old self again