While looking for Halloween music last week on Spotify, I discovered how many Monster Mash precursors/followups/ripoffs there were in that era that I never knew about. You could have a whole franchise based on each of those songs from “Frankenstein’s Party” by The Swingin’ Phillies and “Mr. Werewolf” by The Kac-Ties.

Whenever Telly Savalas' name comes up, I just think of Phil Hartman playing him in the "Player With Yourself Club" skit from SNL.

Yeah, Bill Murray did what he could with that franchise.

The anti-Catholic sentiments that came over from England were part of the same religious conflict that had been going on for over 300 years in Europe. Recent sects of Fundamentalist Christians in the US might have been of more recent vintage but the roots came out of the Second Great Awakening, which had it's start…

It's amazing how the old Protestant fundies(and a lot of the USA historically) hated Catholics so much, even though it's all part of the same sort of belief system, just with different rituals and bosses at the top. But for anyone who isn't Christian it looks as ridiculous as Shiites vs. Sunnis—and was just as…

Calling CSPAN, listening to talk radio, posting on Facebook or the Atlantic Monthly's comments, yeah those old white guys are angry these days.

Also the fact that about 650 miles of the border already have an up-to 25 foot-high wall never seems to get mentioned.

"This show only has one white male on it? I told ya they were all against us!" - Old white guy watching Fox News

So by the end of the week, I think we're going to have an AV Club article on every single sketch Hanks filmed on last week's SNL.

He's down with Ken Bone's Red Sweater Crew

Spike Lee just tweeted Dr. Drew's address.

It's an official government holiday for the City of Compton.

I'm not so syrah about that.

It's okay, 95% of the jokes in this newswire have been done in other Indy newswires. Harrison Ford is old, likes pot, Indiana Jones and hippies, etc…they're all still fun though.

"A Masters in Journalism from Columbia and that was the best headline you could come up with!?"

Ha, I think I made this joke myself a few Indiana Jones newswires ago, but, it's always a good one.

Ford doesn't like getting shorted for a dime bag, man…

"Terminator! It's Marvin! Your cousin, Marvin X! You know that new sound you were looking for? Well listen to THIS!"
*Holds up phone to super fast record scratching*

Bobby Why? was a quirky New Wave singer who had one hit in 1980 and then quickly disappeared.

Stop Danewashing our Germanic icons!