I remember when The Click Five came out with “Just The Girl” and thinking ‘wow, these guys have been listening to all the right Adam Schlesinger songs...’  Turned out he wrote it, of course.

what a great forgotten 90's hit.  First FoW song I remember hearing.

Ivy is by far my favorite Schlesinger project. There aren’t that many albums, and they’re all good, but I’d start with ‘Long Distance’. Here’s a quick personal top 5 songs:

This would actually be a good conceit for the movie. Like Dirk is given some kind of magical item that will bring him back to life over and over. I mean if you don’t have dozens of gruesome deaths, what do you even have with a Dragon’s Lair movie?

This is what I remember about the Dragon’s Lair heyday.  The game would be right at the entrance, always with a huge crowd around it.  I never played it myself - I think I tried it once (at a rare moment when no one was playing) and died so quickly that I never tried it again.  Plus, it cost two quarters.  And didn’t…

I am so, so, so happy you posted this.

No wrestler working today maintains even the slightest shred of kayfabe. What very little still remained was killed off by the creation of social media.

Is anyone else surprised that professional wrestlers don’t get more acting roles in general? Sure, you get a few like The Rock and John Cena and Dave Batista, but you’d think it would be a lot more common. It just seems like the skillsets match up, and there’s plenty of roles for big, muscley dudes (or women) in…

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Definitely Stardew Valley.  That game creates such a sense of wonder on the first play-through - a sense of pride over completing minor tasks, a gradually unfolding mystery of how the world works... especially if you go in cold without any guides.  I still play SDV all the time (heck, I started a new farm just…

One time my girlfriend and I sang that specifically because it was the most bizarre, awkward karaoke choice we could think of.

The more I think about it, in terms of sheer influence on fellow musicians, I don’t even know who would surpass Peart. I would even say that there’s something specific about drumming where other kinds of instrumentalists *can’t* have the kind of titanic influence that Peart had.

Are we sure he got paid?  Court cases can be settled for zero dollars.  I feel like if he did get money, his lawyers would be crowing about it.

Christianity Today was very anti-Trump in 2016 and published an anti-endorsement (don’t remember if they endorsed Hilary or just anti-endorsed Trump) the week of the election.  Don’t know how their coverage has played out since (I’m certainly not a regular reader) but they’ve criticized him in the past.

I was obsessed with last year’s Peloton ads, where a man bought one for his wife for Christmas and hid it in the garage, but couldn’t resist the urge to keep sneaking in and using it himself. Meanwhile, a separate ad showed the wife stumbling upon her gift (which just sat openly in the garage) and *also* kept sneaking…

I used to say that stationary bikes are for people who want to lose weight while changing as little as possible about what got them fat in the first place.

Oh man, I missed this when it was posted, but I’m so excited to see this writeup! Clash At Demonhead definitely has a feel unlike any other game. What other game lets you call the shop *in the middle of a boss fight* to buy more powerups!

She doesn’t have to use a pseudonym. Taylor Swift still owns the songwriting rights to all of those songs. She can re-record anything she wants.  Big Machine just owns that specific recording (which happens to be the one that people know, that gets played on the radio, etc.)

Ha, can you imagine the shitstorm it would kick up in Hollywood if this lawsuit, DID succeed? Every actor and entertainer tied to every single movie/tv show/whatever would suddenly have grounds to sue if they got paid less than a bigger star - even if they were only *offered* the money! There would be 10 million…

Yeah, i thought there would be some wrinkle (no pun intended) to that.  My theory was that she ended up selling her soul to Satan like Ramirez invited her to.