Wait, seriously, another one? Wasn't Mr. Mercedes just a few months ago?

He literally has slit pupils in that pic. It's not just me, right?

Yeah, they can't win. An entertaining rant is all I really ask for, but even that doesn't happen as often as it should.

"This kids' movie has plot holes, and lots of the jokes are really dated! I'M SO ANGRY!"

There was much more excess angst in pop music in 2001. Now? Not so much. Something this somber and melancholy would be a breath of fresh air. I still like this song quite a bit.

Thumbs up for the idea about highlighting obscure favorites. What else is the internet for, anyway?

Magary's funny, though. He knows he's being ridiculous. These interviewees often don't, and that makes a big difference.

Slow down there. Jeez, talk about cynicism.

Arrangements provided by M. Ballmer Funeral Home.

That that whale-sized, cigar-munching, pill-popping, rage-addicted, more-sedentary-than-a-tombstone asshole has survived to the ripe old age of 64 is enough to make me believe that selling one's soul to Satan is possible. (Same with Scalia, and he's even older.)

I called in to express my condolences, but the only guy in the office was Heywood Jebuzzoff.

If the simulated reality theory is true, maybe God is a 4chan poster.

That's why liberalism can't have nice things. It's an island in a sea of Rush Limbaugh-shaped sharks, and people complain because they were expecting a five-star resort.

Ain't cool to like them? I can't recall meeting anyone who hated them. Plenty of people are indifferent or don't know them, of course, but I've never heard anyone say "Car Talk? Fuck those guys, they're terrible."

I think it's funny that country is dumbing itself down to reach a pop audience at near historic levels right when pop radio is getting more and more anal-retentive about what makes their setlist, to the point where capital-P Pop Music like Swift's songs get grouped with country because someone played a banjo during…

It's like being rich and not knowing who your friends really are and who's just after your money.

And as far as cultural appropriation, no wonder aspiring white musicians borrow from/rip off black musicians, because black music has been seen as cooler and hipper than white music since ragtime. Yeah, a lot of stuffy old middle-aged white people thought each new iteration was the end of society, but if you're a…

Like, aside from the fact that she looks like a female version of "All About the Pentiums"-era Weird Al?

I guess no one wants to be the first grumpy old cuss to get accused of rockism. Yes, internet, fun, lighthearted pop music is worth discussing and can have artistic merit equal to 'serious artists'. Duly noted. Let's send the pendulum back a little in the other direction, please.

Is he the Armond White of music, or is White the Christgau of film?