for some reason (well, they're enjoyable!) the Stainless Steel Rat books were really big with the junior high boys who typically didn't read. which is unfortunate, because it led me to totally dismissing them until i picked one up during freshman year of college because they were mentioned in some research i was doing…

i was (and probably still am) a huge Gordam Korman fan - i mean, it's probably been close to 15 years since i read one of his books but they'd probably connect with me all the same.

Winslow is incredible - i checked The Force out from the library but i was going to wait to read it until finishing Stephenson's Rise & Fall of DODO but i'm starting to waver… DODO is good and all, it just takes a couple pages to sink back into the narrative (maybe because of the co-author situation, i don't know) and…

What is, WKRP In Cincinnatti?

or even:
Katharine Hepburn
Sigourney Weaver
Angela Bassett

"We’re a nation of pioneers, and the next great American frontier is
space. And we never completed — we started, but we never completed.
We stopped. But now we start again. And we have tremendous spirit,
and we're going to have tremendous spirit from the private sector —
maybe in particular from the private…

i imagine some future society uncovering the Presidential Archives and read through the amazing rhetorical flourishes and wisdom of various Presidents for 200 or so years. then they reach George W. Bush and kinda scratch their heads/positronic brains/whatevers a little, before moving on to Obama and getting…

"Cocaine ((MONEY)) is a hell of a drug."

yeah, i really wanted the first season to end with some creepy cthullu shit.

not sure where else to put this question but, has anyone ever confirmed that story in the ROOM 237 documentary, that Jack Nicholson was reading a copy of Playgirl in Kubrick's The Shining, during that scene where he's waiting for the top hotel bosses in the lobby and the manager comes out to collect him?

i can never stop myself from muttering that line whenever Stephen Root shows up or i notice his name in the credits, as i did last night watching GET OUT for the first time.

so i guess i'm always curious: are ladies as interested in watching two dudes go at it, similar to how most men are turned on by watching two ladies get it on? i only bring it up because i'm wondering where Playgirl came down on the question of ejaculation - it seems like it would be a natural to include but i just…

i'm a dude but i'm not going to apologize for looking forward to any chance to light some candles, run a bubble bath and have a soak while relaxing to Sea Change. only album that rivals it in that situation is The Mix-Up by the Beasties, which took almost a decade to grow on me and is now one of my favorites.

after i mentioned enjoying an album by Electric Wizard to one of my oldest buds, he sent me a list of stuff to check out. right now i'm listening to Bohren & der Club of Gore, which: yeah, absolutely lives up to his description of "dark slow jazz" - i mean, i haven't seen any of the new Twin Peaks yet, but this could…

seems like bullshit the staff just dropped coverage of this show midway through the episode count but who knows what goes on behind closed doors in webpublishing nowadays? i guess a series that doesn't consistently crack 250+ comments per review gets the shaft… guess the number of eyeballs still matters, huh?

yeah, that was my question too: why would anyone pay for cold-brew coffee? all you need is a refrigerator and the forethought to dump some grounds into water and chill overnight! (i used to use a 1 part coffee to 2 parts water ratio, but that can set up some pretty severe caffeine jitters on anything but an overnight…

thanks a lot, AVClub. i'm home sick from work and just got an email with a rent 1-get 1 free code from Redbox. i was all set to go with Get Out and John Wick 2 before you went and reminded me about Logan. now i can't decide! you also just had to go and make Split sound interesting, didn't you? (the chances of the…

with my grandparents, it was room temperature bacon grease.

wait a second - there is zero evidence for poor people or the difficulty they have voting?! you've never heard of people of color being disenfranchised?

—- psst. why are you feeding the troll, Cookie Monster? just shit in a Keebler bag, throw it towards the moron and block the muthafucka already. —-