My favorite segment is the John Candy as horny robot/alien pilots snorting Plutonian Nyborg, but what really sells it for me is its title: "So Beautiful and So Dangerous".

Rick Perlstein's "The Invisible Bridge", charting the political rise of Ronald Reagan, is wonderful, although it didn't get nearly the same amount of press as Nixonland (both pale in comparison to Before the Storm, btw). Another great nonfiction work is "Blood Brotherhood" by John Dickie, about the history of Italy's…

For me, it's the fact that she uses the term, "Hella", to describe a hot guy's hair. Ugh, although it's funny to think about the guy being another beard she's scouting.

1. Route 94 featuring Jess Glynne, "My Love"
2. Lana Del Rey, "West Coast"
3. Kiesza, "Hideaway"
4. QT, 'Hey QT"

I'd also throw in "All We Ever Look For" as a song that I really got into this year.

Songs that didn't come out in 2014 that were your favorites this year:

1. Route 94 featuring Jess Glynne, "My Love"
2. Lana Del Rey, "West Coast"
3. Kiesza, "Hideaway"
4. QT, 'Hey QT"

Honestly, I'm more surprised that people consider her music honest when she's (allegedly) been in more bearded relationships than John Travolta.

As a slavish devotee of Top 40, I was pretty amazed when songs like "Latch" by Disclosure (which charted in the top 10, amazingly enough) and Kiesza's "Hideaway (which grazed the Top 50, I think) actually got airplay in the US. Sadly, Route 94's "My Love" never crossed over the pond to make it big, because that song…

West Coast really made me reconsider my Lana Del Rey hate. Love that chorus.

This is so nerdy of me, but the alien in the above photo also appeared in the horror comedy Saturday the 14th (1981), a Roger Corman production.

Hands down, Howie Mandel.

Great moments in cinema:

YOU KNOW RALPH. DEEP DOWN INSIDE, YOU KNOW.

I love the fact that each Skeses each have a "job", ranging from The Gourmand to The Slave Master to The Scribe to The fey Ornamentalist. But my question: what did The Chamberlain do at court?

Who could it be?

Remember to put coins over the lemur's eyes to pay the ferryman for the voyage to Zabooland, home of strangely 1970s claymation anteaters and mice

He's got your eyes Sid

Fuck, I just mentioned the "Vietcong Beavers discuss Socialism while eating 8-Ball the Frog's legs."

During the amazing "Frogs of War" flashback, there's this scene where the Vietcong Beavers (complete with buck teeth and gibberish language) roast a captive frog's legs over a spit. While this is going on, we get a subtitled, surprisingly intelligent discussion on the merits of limited, village run capitalism being…