in fact, it's the BEST possible grade.

That was my first DVD purchase too! The pseudo-HD "superbit" edition, which still actually looks pretty good.

I love how almost all of these have included something I remember asking my parents about (followed by a very unsatisfactory explanation). my childhood brain couldn't process that "gay as a tangerine" was just an amusing phrase, & that there wasn't some widespread tangerine/gayness correlation in the cultural…

*The Fragile Porcelain Mice, you mean. (I'm pleased to say I remembered that off the top of my head, but I did google to confirm.)

oh god, I totally remember reading this as a kid & being totally confused by #1. while I didn't necessarily have perfect comprehension of all the other ones, I could at least grasp the vague dirtiness of them…but the whiskey-brand reference totally threw me off.

I know I definitely drove my parents crazy by constantly asking for explanations to Top Ten & Bloom County references (which I was encountering thanks to their personal libraries).

my parents had a couple of those Top Ten compilation books & I read them endlessly. I'd totally forgotten about that entry, but it was definitely one of my favorites too (& it perfectly captures the Dave sensibility).

I bought the album back in the day for "Mother, Mother" & didn't really like the rest of it—besides "Bulldog," which I still think is great—but I just rediscovered it via my iPod & was pleasantly surprised.

oh, bummer. sorry about your dad. maybe he & Pryor are reminiscing about their hometown together in the great beyond. (if so, it bodes well for me getting to hang out with Richard Pryror in the afterlife, & that sounds pretty awesome.)

I just went to the wikipedia page for Rampage to see if there was some rationale for its tour through IL cities (which was fruitless, although I guess the fact that it was put out by the Chicago-based Bally's probably explains that bit), & found this bizarre factoid: "On November 18, 2011 it was announced that a…

I know people who work(ed) for the PJS! not surprising to see it mentioned in this context, but exciting nevertheless.

I bet he does—there aren't a lot of other famous people from Peoria. but now I'm curious. (I was born there, & I learned of Pryor's affiliation at about the same time I learned who Pryor was. but maybe that's just because my parents were fans.)

Biblie/Bibley is totally a callback to the old Mr. Show sketch about picture books for senior citizens, from the "What to Think" episode. which apparently I have no choice but to mention, since no one else has yet.

I just started snickering to myself remembering that sketch (& the ridiculous pop-starlet video version at the end). that, my friends, is high-quality uh…comedy.

& bless you too (with extra blessings for including the "crudity of the model" part).

bless you.

I went into it blind too, & unspoiled beyond "there's a twist." honestly, there was a moment when the music got all tense before they found the not-fully-burned diary when I thought maybe Amy had hidden herself somewhere, waiting for Nick to find her, & that the twist was that she'd starved to death since their…

well, also, showers aren't exactly easy to come by in hospitals—they exist, but who wants to use a communal shower shared with a bunch of sick people?? I was once hospitalized for a month without ever taking a shower (I washed my hair twice & had one sponge bath, but that's it). so "you might as well go clean off that…

awesome. (also, "Atlantic City" is, if not my favorite Springsteen song, definitely in my top 5. we live close enough to Philly that we end up passing through it frequently on road trips, & there's a standing "Blow Up the Chickenman" alarm on my phone to remind us when we need to leave.)

I "liked" that because I heard it in the voice of Brendon Small as Tiny from the new conclusion of Comedy Bang Bang's "Closing Up the Plug Bag" song.