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Arrested Development?

To foreigners, a Yankee is an American.
To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner.
To Northerners, a Yankee is an Easterner.
To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander.
To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter.
To Vermonters, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast.
—(supposedly) E.B. White

I think the article's pretty clear, really. For better or worse, VH changed the sound of rock music for decades.

Alex Van Halen is competent? At best? I've never really heard him described that way.

I'm okay with it. I like Wright's movies, but he does tend to get up his own ass style-wise. We get it, you're clever! Scott Pilgrim, for example, is a film that really suffers on re-watch for me.

I always thought the lead singer looked a bit like a New Wave Bon Scott.

"Harden My Heart" - Quarterflash

I totally respect Kudrow, think she's great. It's just a longstanding thing I've noticed that one way some choose to give begrudging respect to Friends is to praise her in comparison to all the others. She's great, but in a lot of ways - at least within the the context of that show - the others are just as good and…

That's sort of silly. Perry, Aniston, and Schwimmer all had great comedic timing, which I think Leblanc also really developed over time (check out "Episodes" to see how good he's gotten). Aniston and Cox could really do some quality weepy stuff. And ALL of them were really great at physical comedy, which the show…

Does S8 have the backpacking in Europe story?

Great song!

Ringo's an amazing drummer, actually. His sense of timing is incredibly precise, and his syncopation is so subtle as to regularly go unnoticed. He (and, to a lesser degree Charlie Watts, whom people seem to see as "cooler" for some reason) get a lot of business for not being Bonham, Mitch Mitchell, G Baker, etc. (all…

Not my favorite Zep song by a long stretch, but still one of those songs that I remember the exact moment I first heard it, and then feeling compelled to listen to it repeatedly for weeks. These days I'd probably prefer The Ocean, D'yer Maker, and the opening 1-2 punch, but this was def the hook that got me into this…

It's a cow's opinion.

There can be only one!

And the entire sound design is pretty amazing.

It's also got a pretty awesome subtext - home computer graphics are as good as they are today in large part due to the need to process more and better video game graphics. Probably obvious to the hardcore gamers out there, but something I hadn't really thought of before.

The excitement of old-timey baseball (Red Sox fans beware!):

Actually, MPDG has become pretty widespread - I've seen it in quite a few publications. But yeah, that article he wrote was stupid. His identifying and labling of that lazy Hollywood trope was one of the best things he's done as a writer; coming to assume (as ELDan points out) that he actually created the type and so…