Giuseppe Zangara

The pizza I had was topped with pepperoni and andouille sausage Take that, vegans. It was my first time having andouille. It was sweet and not very spicy, the latter of which was a surprise. Still, it was very good.

Pretty much, though even then I balked at the notion of intentional misspellings and random capitalization.

I once wrote a letter to Fishbone that I'm sure was about as embarrassing as any typical middle-school fan letter. What probably sent it over the top reaction-wise for its recipient (not that I ever got a response) was that, lacking a nearby pen or pencil and really wanting to write the letter as soon as possible, I used an orange crayon. I'm sure it looked and read like it was written by a retard.

I recall enjoying Ray Romano on that show, but I haven't seen those episodes in years. Dom Irrera was the best of the reoccurring guests.

I had some pizza today that used creamy spinach instead of a tomato-based sauce. A+ will eat again

Watching clips of Night After Night shows it wasn't any better or worse than any current talk show.

I was a big fan of Night After Night with Allan Harvey. And youtube comes through:

There was channel splitting yeah, but I don't recall much of it happening beyond the early 90s, outside of the ultimately failed integration of Much Music onto US airwaves. In my town, it had to share airtime with whatever was that shopping network that featured Don West. And man, youtube is proving useless in finding clips of old Comedy Central shows. Locating MST is easy enough, but there's nothing pre-'94. Afterdrive? Clash? Sports Monster? Short Attention Span Theater, when Jon Stewart was a co-host?

Anyone remember Afterdrive? It was already out of production when Comedy Central came to my town in 1991, but they showed it often enough, anyway. (This being when Comedy Central had little else to run other than mediocre movies and numerously repackaged stand-up clips.) EDIT: I specifically remember Comedy Central debuting on our cable network on a Thursday, in the summer of '91. The next day, at 10am, I saw MST3k for the first time. Thus began an adolescent love affair that didn't wane until the Sci-Fi years.

Bill Hicks was such a blowhard piece of shit.

I'm gonna burn my copy of You Can Run But You Can't Hide, outraged.

Boyz II Men were better than most of the bands mentioned in this thread.

Either Fishbone or Gwar; my becoming obsessed with them both occurred around the same time.

It played before the movie proper. I'd already seen it, too, but I liked seeing it again.

Best moments: 1. The river/funeral village scene. 2. The flashback where the brothers attempt to take their father's car to his funeral. 3. The Hotel Chevalier short. I'll add I find the praise Owen Wilson's performance has been receiving slightly odd; he's arguably the film's weak link. The character is just Dignan in a different environment, and Wilson does little to make him other than Dignan-esque.

I'd argue that The Darjeeling Limited is Wes Anderson's most immediate and best film since Rushmore. I think this film felt a bit more human and less glib than the last couple of Anderson outings, so the decidedly mixed response this one's been getting is a bit of a surprise to me. I've read a number of reviews/heard from a number of people who say that it might grow on them. While I more or less love TDJ the first time out, I can understand why someone would feel they need to sit down with it again; Anderson's movies don't always open themselves up upon first exposure; I didn't begin to truly appreciate both The Royal Tenenbaums and The Life Aquatic until their respective second viewings.

I give props to Rundgren for following his muse wherever it's taken him these past 30 years, but so much of what he does is completely ridiculous/bad. I'd give him further credit for not trying to recreate his past successes, but his involvement in the New Cars is fairly questionable. Profiting on someone else's past glories? Uh....

I think I mentioned this before, but I had the chance to see Todd Rundgren earlier this year, and for cheap, but skipped it. I would've gone if I knew he wouldn't play anything post-1975 outside of "Can We Still Be Friends?" and "Bang the Drum All Day." Hell, I could've lived without the last song, but that's the one everybody knows, so I can deal with it.

I love that moment in Hall & Oates's cover of "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" where the duo trade off vocals in an increasingly soulful fashion. Oates had a decent singing voice; he was just so completely overshadowed by Hall.

I had one for awhile, but was OCD-irritated how it didn't accurately reflect my computer-based listening habits. I deleted it.

Album-wise? No. A reasonably stocked single disc comp should fill the necessities outside of that one record. Given what you're generally into, I'm surprised you didn't know much about the Zombies already.

Terrapin, an Athens-based brewery, makes a number of fine beers.

Fucking Odessey and Oracle (sic). One of the best albums of the 60s. Get on that shit yesterday.

tee hee

The hotel room scene at the end of The Brown Bunny almost redeemed the hour of largely uninterrupted driving the preceded it.