Right. I suppose my brain doesn't go that far. Are you even capable of writing a sentence that isn't meant to be some show of sorts? Do you ever actually converse with people? I mean, congrats on your Thesaurus Rex, but I wouldn't pursue this as an actual career.

The funniest memory I have of Carrie Fisher was in the roast of Roseanne. Seth Green was with her on the deis (sp?), and when came time to roast him - huge Star Wars fan, about to be roasted by Princess Leia, big smile on his face - her roast of him was basically to ignore him entirely and move on to the next person.

I do admit to wondering about the praise of Samantha Bee vocally calling out the 'alt-right' as white supremacists. Since … almost literally every newspaper and single person in the entire world which/who doesn't support Trump has done that, and in some instances managed to be funny while doing so (I'm assuming). I'm…

Agreed very strongly on all counts except the last, which isn't to say I at all disagree, just to say that you raise an interesting point. It reminds of the story Snopes once disproved about sprinters at the Special Olympics all stopping and banding together arm in arm after one of them had fallen. They argued that it…

Wholeheartedly agree with the one caveat that the effects of the time separated it from B-movie status, and were arguably as big of a deal then. But that's what I tell people who never got into it as a kid and don't understand the appeal. Aside from childhood nostalgia, it's the music. It's the reason the three…

I appreciate the kind words, and I didn't mean any of mine in spite. I'm half-American, so I do get the difference between jibing and contempt. Many Americans sincerely don't like Canadians (and vice versa) and I was merely commenting on the irony that the most ridiculed are the most profitable in the nation…

A friend of mine possessing what I consider good taste in music - three years older, and with a running joke that I was always into the band he was into previously, growing up - took his little sister to a Nickelback concert years ago and was actually very impressed with the level of show they put on. Nickelback is…

In my (Ontario) experience, people who listen to Nickelback tend to be female country music fans. I'm sure it's different in Alberta, but it's really just as simple as that here. Some people look for subversive, others for comfort food.

Noted. Next time, I will offer the objective view of what's funny, despite the fact that no such thing exists.

I look at him as being in the upper echelon of lyricists who know how to put words into vocals. I think one of the most difficult things to convey successfully in music is righteous sarcasm, and I feel he not only rivaled Kurt Cobain in that department, but probably dwarfed him as well. The trouble isn't that he…

I know this is from six months ago (2016 best-of, etc.) but the simple answer is the market. Same as Hollywood actors.

I'm not even a fight scene fan, and (I don't even know his name) but the blind Monk's fighting scenes were worth the admission alone.

I get it. It just seems disrespectfully opportunistic, given that we're waiting for news on something that has nothing to do with anything but a person and her life and health. Satire best spent elsewhere, at best.

So, nothing at all.

It's Puddle Of Mudd, and I have to listen to that song in the kitchen more occasionally than I would like to stop pretending and demand a different playlist, but they like it, so I tune out. Christ, what a terrible song.

Yeah, I'm sort of okay with that until the first time I see that batting stance in the uniform of the team that beat us. Not Boston, but still, that sucks.

Papa Roach, Limp Bizkit … Need I remember the others? Basically every alt-grunge late-90s/early '00s band. Why blame us for one of them?

Not to be that guy, but does the 'touring a whole country with terminal brain cancer' thing not in any way influence your criticism of some sparse Canadian radio hits that may have made it your way over a 30-year span? I've never seen a moose in my life, and it's hot as shit here in the summer, and I have family in…

Poor man's Smashing Pumpkins, but again, mainstream from 15 years ago that doesn't have a huge fan base here.

Matthew Good Band is one of the more overlooked for their success here. As someone who was admittedly a residual fan well into his solo albums, before finally hearing the same earnest preach every song and tiring of it, I can still look back and remark on how unmatched he and they were for their time.