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Around in circles, obviously! And you call yourself an anthrocentipologist.

One question is, how many people do you need to put into the centipede before you can loop the "head" onto the "tail" for a Human Ouroboros?

We gotta hook up Dieter Laser with one of those two-foot-long Price is Right microphones. At the end of every episode, he stares emotionlessly into the camera and intones a reminder to have your pets spayed, neutered, or . . . oh dear God. . . .

No, getting old real fast is the penalty on the exciting Indiana Jones inspired game show, "Oops, Wrong Grail."

A "Human Centipede" series that kept adding people could go a few different ways. It could be a talk show where the guest plugs their latest project before being stitched onto the grotesque affront to Nature and to Nature's God, or it could be a game show in which the loser is sewn onto the stomach-churning

The ratio of classics to "meh" may be shifting, but some of my all-time TMBG favorites are on later albums. "You're On Fire" from "Nanobots" is on my top five for the band.

The last episode of "Futurama" had elements of "Eternal Sunshine…" and "Groundhog Day." You could watch that episode once a week and pretend it's a series.

I meant "grifter." Damned autocorrect. Then again, maybe it's a con artist whose game involves skin grafts.

The trouble is that GOOD movies are being rebooted or turned into TV series.
What they need to do is pick CRAPPY movies and TRY AGAIN because they clearly botched 'em the first time. Possibly using the same director, who can't do any other projects until they get this one right.

I'm sure it'll be out of your system soon enough. But not in a spotless way.

Here's how to make "Eternal Sunshine…" into a TV series. Every episode starts with them meeting, for what they think is the first time. Then, over the course of the episode, SHIT GOES DOWN and they get their memories wiped at the end of the episode . . . so they have a clean slate for the next one.
Every episode

On the other end of the spectrum, there's Dave Foley's monologue from "Kids In The Hall." "The difficult thing about being a mass murderer isn't the murdering part . . . it's the mass part."

The tall man fled across the desert, and the ice cream man followed, calling, "Sir! You forgot your ice cream!"

It still blows my mind that Angus Scrimm wrote the liner notes to "Meet The Beatles!"
A sentinel sphere vs. the Flying Glove from "Yellow Submarine" would be an interesting face-off, and the Tall Man's thick yellow blood led me to nickname him "Mean Mr. Mustard."

This list doesn't include CDs that only my wife listens to, or comedy/soundtrack CDs which I file separately. It does include one act for which I don't own any CDs, but I downloaded two albums and an EP on iTunes. I include this information because you've been dying to know. Here goes:
Semisonic
The Shazam
The Shins
Pau

The Oreo Cookie Jar Blizzard is an Oreo Blizzard with added cookie dough. (It was a short-term special but easily replicated using available ingredients.) The Oreos distract from the less appealing aspects of the cookie dough while enhancing its best attributes. It's for the best that there is only one DQ sort of

I remember being very excited to learn that Elliott and Garofalo had been cast, and cringing with embarrassment at the material they had to work with. I missed Garofalo after she left the show mid-season, but couldn't blame her. I wished Elliott had been able (or willing) to revive his Letterman-era characters like

In the biz, they call it "stuffing envelopes."

There are lots of subgroups within power pop and everyone's got their favorites. Strangely enough, although many people say the 1970s were the golden age of power pop, I've never been able to really get into much of the material from that era apart from Badfinger. I really, really tried to get into Big Star but it

"…Half Undressed" is also on a UK compilation CD called "Best!," which I'd highly recommend for people dipping their toes into Jellyfish-infested waters. Because the band only put out two albums, the collection includes a hefty percentage of the band's output (including a bunch of non-album B-sides that were hard to