I didn’t mention his name because I thought it was unlikely anyone reading this has any idea who he is. 100% agree on whatever punishment he gets being well-deserved. TBH with you the way Iced Earth has always been a rotating cast of characters other than Jon and singers I never really looked at the rest of the band…

I haven’t watched the new show, so I can’t comment to specifics, but what format do you think it should have other than not being made at all? Making it as anything other than a multicamera sitcom with a studio audience wouldn’t really feel like Frasier.  

I work for the one written about in the article. I know Ford still has a loose policy with no specific in-office requirement. The only other policy I know of is at VW. A friend works there and they also pushed a 3 day in office policy out this week. 

I do have a line. The leader of a metal band who I have been a big fan of for decades took part in the Jan 6 festivities. I believe he has the honor of being the first person to plead guilty around it. He has not been sentenced yet. I admittedly still own their albums, but haven’t listened to them since. I’m not quite…

It is self serve, I saw it at a Panera over the summer. 

I’m sure he is. It’s also true that if let that be the only reason I wouldn’t consume someone’s work my music and movie collection would be much smaller.

That is a good silver lining that didn’t occur to me. 

I read about the history of Jingle Bells once. I think it’s basically about young hooligans recklessly racing their horse-drawn sleighs in the snow. As a random aside, my family has an old “up north” place that has been in the family since the 1870s. There is a horse-drawn sleigh in the barn that I always thought…

I think you’re thinking of “Over the river and through the woods to grandmother’s house we go”, which is also not a Christmas song. If I recall correctly that one was written for Thanksgiving. 

In a world where we try to make non-Christmas songs (Hallelujah) Christmas songs, I don’t think the release date of a song that has Christmas in its title and features sleigh bells throughout matters. That has been going on for a long time though. Fun fact, Jingle Bells was not intended as a Christmas song. 

Maybe with the exception of Christmas Shoes being number 1. They got that one right, what a terrible, terrible song that is. 

It certainly sounds like it is meant to be a Christmas song. It’s not on an album I ever play cover to cover, and I skip it if comes up on shuffle outside of Christmas. To me it is a Christmas song.

I don’t get the inclusion of Mistress for Christmas. While it’s not a song I love, it’s exactly what one would want or expect from an AC/DC Christmas song.

I’m about the same age as Anne, meaning I was a young and immature man at the time that it was released. I was eager to see it for...reasons...What a terrible, terrible movie that was. 

Reading the article more closely, I see that there was a Petty song in San Andreas. I never played it and didn’t know that. I retract my statement regarding the use of his song in this trailer, apparently the GTA franchise was on his “approved” list. 

I’d like to think if he was still alive today, Petty—who was born in Florida— would love his song being featured in a trailer for what looks to be the ultimate “Flordia game.”

It’s funny you say that, because I actually thought it was the best photo of her I can remember seeing. I’m not at all suggesting she ever set out to be a sex symbol, but I’ve rarely looked at a photo of her and thought “this is a woman I find attractive”. I had the opposite reaction with this picture.

I disagree, I think it can be sad regardless of a person’s age. It is definitely not a great tragedy, but it’s still sad. There are a lot of long-lived people in my family. My great grandma died in her mid 90s when I was in my early 20's. I remember offering my condolences to my grandma (her daughter, in her 70s at…

Maybe it’s just the recording quality/production choices that make it sound like it’s about 120 years old to me. 

It might not be all that nasty, but my mess has a funny story behind it. About 20 years ago when I was in college a friend and I went to a party on very cold Michigan winter night. I consumed far too much beer and gin. At some point someone made a run to Burger King, and I asked for two larger orders of onion rings. A…