It's Friday. Take a break and chat it up in this week's open thread.
Remember Terriers? Man, that show was great. (Too bad about the terrible name.) In the annals of…

This new video from Talking Heads frontman David Byrne and wicked good looper/singer/music-maven St. Vincent is my…

This guy, I swear. I don't know how he does it. Get a load of the latest "Bad Lip-Reading" from the genius who…
On this day 2,043 years ago, the world's sexiest power couple — Mark Antony and Cleopatra, obviously — lost the…
Watching college football? Wanna yak about it? This here's the place. Notre Dame vs. Navy is already happening…

Happy Birthday, Deborah Gibson! Circa 1988, I totally called into a radio station and sang "Shake Your Love" and…
Been couped up in a stale office all week? Grab a little fresh air, courtesy of this week's open thread.
Have you ever bought a machete on sale? I did, earlier this week.
We can learn a lot about who we used to be by looking at old ads. We can learn a lot about who we, as a society, aspi…
Hey, it's another book-themed off-topic! This time around we've got something particularly musty, and particularly…

I love PBS' "Off-Book" mini-documentary series, don't you? The latest entry in the now long-running series looks…

It's Melissa McCarthy's birthday, so let's honor her by laughing at her cinematic antics. It's also Mother…
Generally the off-topic goes to an interesting story that maybe doesn't have anything directly to do with games. But…
Today is Marlee Matlin's 47th birthday, so let's applaud her for a sec, because I could really use an inspirational…

Need a short-term pick-me-up to finish out your week? Good news! We're bottling that in this week's open thread.

I'll tell you one thing: we're not here to talk nonsense to Bob Loblaw. No, we're here to talk about how the new…

Man, when will the pillaging end? When will they stop remaking movies that seriously, really and 100% truly do not…

Fequent off-topic readers will know that I, like any red-blooded moviegoing person, love a good supercut. I also…

Okay, yes, it's actually not that hard to program a bunch of floppy drives to play a song. But Il ove the way that…