Or Romeo is Bleeding which, same.

Driving around the Beach cities while blasting “The Only Place” is like living in a tourism commercial.

I’ve seen enough movies to know that, somehow, everyone at this park is going to die because of this monumental liquid monument to hubris.

or, as my colleague Megan Reynolds noted, Jorah Mormont

Also, it’s nice that Best Coast did a kids’ album, I guess, but I’d like a new album, please.

Or maybe Beach House was never real, and the band’s whole career was viral marketing for a fake show called The Flare?

Ha, right. It’s going to be three stripped down versions of iTunes, each of whom only handles a third of the content, but while still managing to be a giant crash-prone memory hog.

Bad Times at the El Royale is surprisingly fun. It’s like a good version of one of the Tarantino knock-off films that came out after Pulp Fiction.

M ripping him a new one more or less constantly for, well, everything, is a good start.

Have they changed their original recipe motor oil they use in everything?

I delivered Pizza Hut in college, and the smell and flavor of that oil overwhelms everything they make.

How does he feel about Sublime, though?

I double-checked that and still got it wrong.

You make a compelling argument for a sense of humor and irony.

Now that pop culture has turned on Billy Joel, can we reappraise Phil Collins and decide that he was kind of OK? Not everyone has to be Peter Gabriel post-Genesis.

KROQ also plays a lot of Social Distortion, who most of the country have to strain to remember. For all that KROQ would like to be a national trendsetter, in a lot of ways, they’re a very regional station playing to a very regional fanbase.

(As opposed to KCRW, where what you hear on Morning Becomes Eclectic shows up…

Rolling Stone in the 1980s had P.J. O’Rourke back when that was a good get.

I love me some Darkest Dungeon, but every time I get distracted, I come back to a group of characters that I can’t quite remember what I’m doing — who’s resting where now, and for how long, and what are my key team compositions? — that I effectively have to start over every time.

Fantastic atmosphere, though. I could…

I blame Carol Burnette.

As spelled out in the article, Bradley was someone fully immersed in the multicultural nature of Long Beach. It comes off as pretty sincere to me, then and now.

Their infamous review of the Black Kids album is also a contender, for that matter.