Meh. Let me know when they remaster Plumbers Don't Wear Ties.

An "acoustic version, played live on electric piano." There are at least two things wrong with that description.

I was admiring that too. I'm old enough to have worked as a clerk in a law firm that still hadn't gone fully digital (it was the late 90s), and we had to do that. You need some serious skills to use a typewriter to enter information on a Rolodex card without making a mess, especially if the text has to be justified.…

I think it's interesting how Gold Leader (apparently his name is Captain Vander) starts out as the battle-hardened veteran with nerves of steel, but later starts to panic and is told to "stay on target" by Gold Five. It's amazing how effective the whole Death Star sequence is at cutting between shots of guys in…

My parents go to one of the branches of Rick Warren's church, and although I had never heard of him before they started going there, I just learned recently that he is kind of a big deal. One of his books (The Purpose Driven Life) is apparently the bestselling hardcover book OF ALL TIME.

Title mines a very similar vein as Amy Winehouse, production-wise if not lyrically. Wouldn't you agree?

There's no excuse for badmouthing a 12-year-old kid who's doing something cool like this, but it is kind of a huge step down from their previous temporary bassist, Ryan Martinie of Mudvayne. Granted, Fieldy is also a huge step down from Martinie. (I also use my time wisely.)

Ouch. Given how rough the first season of the original MST3K was, I'll try to keep an open mind and very low expectations. But damn, I can't believe they separate the riffing from the puppetry like that.

Walking out of The Aristocrats is understandable, but as I recall, it does get funnier and more bizarre as it goes on, culminating in Sarah Silverman's version of the "joke."

It's a great flick, maybe even my favorite King adaptation, but I don't understand the B&W gimmick. Is it exactly the same as the original version except for the lack of color?

Weird, because I've always been baffled by the "I liked them better when they were called Pearl Jam" comments. Is there a particular song that people have in mind when they say Weiland sounds like Vedder? I don't hear any resemblance beyond what would be expected for a male vocalist fronting a hard rock band. I…

That and a copy of What Color is Your Parachute?

That and a copy of What Color is Your Parachute?

That's interesting. So "16" didn't even consistently mean "16-bit CPU" then.

Having lived through the "16-bit wars" between the SNES and Genesis, I always thought "bits" referred to the graphics, or more specifically to the color depth, with a 16-bit console meaning that 2^16 colors were available in the palette. The reference to the Atari 2600 as an 8-bit console in this article caused me to…

Ummm, no. That's like saying Singles is the movie that introduced the world to grunge. In fact, by 1998 electronic music had already come and gone as a potential Next Big Thing after grunge. I peg 1997 as the year that it came closest to being fully mainstream, only to go back underground again for another 10…

My favorite is websites where you spend an hour writing something, and then when you finally submit it, you find out you were logged out 30 minutes ago, with no way to go back and retrieve what you wrote. Doesn't really happen to me with Disqus, but that's why I always write things in Notepad first.

I was old enough to watch The Simpsons from the start, and I never really knew about these regional Bozos until recently. I always thought Krusty was supposed to be kind of a generic parody of vaudeville or Borscht Belt comedians.

Seriously. It almost seems to me like this, and this alone, is the real problem. So what if there are 1000 different things to do, and most of them are pointless and worthy of being ignored? If you could sort or organize the set of things to do in some meaningful or customizable way, then it would hardly matter. …

Yeah, not only is Neeson's American accent somewhat dodgy, it seems like's he's on the old side to play Marlowe. The best Marlowe I've ever seen is Michael Shannon in The Missing Person, although technically it wasn't Marlowe or a Chandler story. If anybody here is a Chandler fan and hasn't seen that movie, I highly…