Even better, to me he will always be that beefcake scene in the opening credits of Cagney and Lacey. Barely teenaged me was still smart enough to know how incredibly cheesy that was.

I don’t give a shjit ab.out any of these fvcking albums.

such a notoriously formulaic subgenre as the modern mainstream rom-com

And then she kept buying you shirts with butterfly collars, but you took out her brand new Porsche when she went on vacation.

Count yourself lucky. I don’t think my mom could form a sentence nearly close to “bi-racial buddy posturing”. 

It’s not meant to be taken literally. He means the makers of all dairy products.

Sounds like the word he’s looking for is “competent” and even then, you need to specify “at parts”.

I would, but I can’t watch the video as the lynx aren’t working.

I’m not going to click that star for you. I’m a rebel!

iPod, iPad, iDon’tknowanymore!

I’ll allow it, counsellor, but watch yourself!

*Throws shoe at you*

You motherfucker.

What sewer pipe did they have to snake to get enough material to create an actor to play Roger Ailes?

Zappa loved and admired Zappa, full stop.

Styx did a perfect pastiche of Devo with “Music Time”, a song that I might be the only fan of in my time zone.

It’s also a jab at The Shining. King loathed the movie.

GAD, I’ve never seen this. What an asshole.

That’s supposed to be anti-suicide, right? It’s having the opposite effect on me. It feels like Mr Joel is viciously mocking my struggles with depression. Is Billy Joel in a trenchcoat the best life can offer? A suicide deterrent? This song and video are both deeply flawed.

I was coming here to say the exact same thing, pretty much. The line that clarified everything about the song to me was "The cross is in the ballpark/why deny the obvious, child?" Inasmuch as "the cross" or however you personally perceive what's holy, is "in the ballpark": not necessarily the truth of the greater…