As a young GAY man, I didn't know any better. They're a bit cringeworthy to me now, but they got my dad to at least acknowledge gay characters on TV, and in a weird way, "Men on…" kind of helped my coming out.

To be fair, Saving Private Ryan is terrific for the first 20 minutes, middling for most of the middle, and then subverts its own premise by having Private Ryan remember all the stuff he wasn't there for.

He really did have a streak of fantastic films, didn't he?

What's most exciting about this Kitty stuff is that when she first appeared, some feared she'd be "the new sister" type story, where a new character is forced into a story and doesn't make sense, just so the writers can do something new and fresh. I love that we all had open minds and that the writing and acting…

I didn't agree with the critique, but that's going to happen sometimes. Sometimes when there are FACTUAL errors (I hate to bring up the pills in jellybeans example, but it's there) I'll feel a need to say something, or when there seems to be a series of reviews that underscore that the reviewer just hates the show and…

She's got a great motor.

I also think she serves the purpose that the dog-killer did the last season. Was he real, or a ghost, or a manifestation of Kevin's subconscious? I don't know why everyone's treating Patti's appearance as out of context with the show and Kevin's character - it's all happened before.

ROCKY!

JANET!

Reading ARMADA right now. I loved the references in RP1 but they're a bit much here. Still enjoying it.

I really isn't.

Be sure to include a couple of outtakes from Tracks.

At this point, the re-assessment of Lucky Town is pretty entrenched. That album is very much one going through a huge critical shift.

It's devastating. That and "Dry Lightning" really work best for me - desperate people who have been desperate so long they forget they're desperate.

Ditto.

WE ARE ALL OLD.

Hey, I still love it. I think he might have been aiming for a sequel to "Girls In Their Summer Clothes," but it got just weird. Eh, I liked WOAD as a fun experiment with sounds from the 60s and 70s.

Those tracks are undeniably great, as is the Beach Boys-esque "This Life" and the California 70s sound of "Life Itself." Not to mention the two bonus tracks. People always talk about hating WOAD, but then when they pull the tracks individually, most seem to like most besides "Queen of the Supermarket," "Surprise…

I have a Springsteen tattoo. I love almost everything he's done. I even love a good portion of Human Touch - the title track and "Roll of the Dice" and "I Wish I Were Blind" are terrific songs. But it remains the worst of his studio records.

So much awesome. I've heard some songs from the new album and they're killer.