This is the end
Because today is the last day ever, I ain't going out like no sucka. Go ahead and cry in the shower. Meanwhile, I'm posting 30 of my favorite original score cues or songs on Spotify that accompany the...
View Article5-Piece Cartoon Dinner (12/26/2012): The best episodes of 2012 (part 1)
The helmeted villain with no name attempts to trim Mike's bangs.Every Wednesday in "5-Piece Cartoon Dinner," I dine on five of the week's most noteworthy animated cable shows that are found outside my...
View ArticleThe year 2012, as told through tweets I favorited
AFOS, which I finally upgraded from mono to stereo earlier this month, was occasionally mentioned on Twitter by other people in 2012, either to express their disappointment in iTunes dumping AFOS from...
View Article5-Piece Cartoon Dinner (01/02/2013): The best episodes of 2012 (part 2)
This new version of Voltron sucks. (Photo source: Haunted Realm)Each Tuesday in "5-Piece Cartoon Dinner," I dine on five of the week's most noteworthy animated cable shows that are found outside my...
View Article10 Best Original Song Oscar contenders on Spotify that don't suck (so that...
On December 11, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released its list of 75 original songs that are eligible for the Oscars' Best Original Song category. Only 32 percent of these potential...
View Article5-Piece Cartoon Dinner (01/09/2013): Bob's Burgers, American Dad, Motorcity,...
Cyndi Lauper looks a lot different ever since she started taking up Krav Maga."5-Piece Cartoon Dinner" originally started out as a post about the rivalry between Cartoon Network's "DC Nation" block and...
View Article5-Piece Cartoon Dinner (01/16/2013): Bravest Warriors, Out There, Bob's...
"Oh God, the ship's computer put Pluto Nash on a loop! Yellow alert!"Every Wednesday in "5-Piece Cartoon Dinner," I dine on five of the week's most noteworthy animated shows. The episodes are reviewed...
View Article5-Piece Cartoon Dinner (01/23/2013): Archer, Dan Vs., Tron: Uprising, Robot...
Lana's body was modeled after an Atlanta-based flight attendant's, while her bad temper was modeled after Steven Slater's.Every Wednesday in "5-Piece Cartoon Dinner," I dine on five of the week's most...
View Article5-Piece Cartoon Dinner (01/30/2013): Archer, Green Lantern, Bob's Burgers,...
Archer's latest episode recaptures the most exciting part of Skyfall: the scenes where they filled out paperwork.Every Wednesday in "5-Piece Cartoon Dinner," I dine on five of the week's most...
View Article30 Rock (2006-2013)
Tonight marks the end of a series that wasn't supposed to survive when it premiered and was predicted by some in the press to be the NBC show about sketch comedians that was going to fail. NBC's other...
View Article5-Piece Cartoon Dinner (02/06/2013): Archer, Green Lantern, Young Justice,...
Best Super Bowl beer ad ever.Every Wednesday in "5-Piece Cartoon Dinner," I dine on five of the week's most noteworthy animated shows. The episodes are reviewed in the order of when they first...
View ArticlePiƩnsalo dos veces
Donald ByrdThe death of legendary hard bop trumpeter and composer Donald Byrd last Monday has got me revisiting some of my favorite Byrd tunes, which either have been sampled by hip-hop artists or were...
View Article5-Piece Cartoon Dinner (02/13/2013): Bravest Warriors, Archer, Bob's Burgers,...
"If business wasn't so awful lately, I'd take us to the plastic surgeon and get ourselves chins."Every Wednesday in "5-Piece Cartoon Dinner," I dine on five of the week's most noteworthy animated...
View ArticleAFOS Blog Rewind: Do the Right Thing (Part 1 of 5)
It's Black History Month, so all this week, I'm reposting every single past AFOS blog post about one of my favorite films (and one of my reasons for wanting to get into showbiz), Do the Right Thing,...
View ArticleAFOS Blog Rewind: Do the Right Thing (Part 2 of 5)
It's Black History Month, so all this week, I'm reposting every single past AFOS blog post about one of my favorite films, Do the Right Thing, the timeless (except for Radio Raheem's boombox and "Dump...
View ArticleAFOS Blog Rewind: Do the Right Thing (Part 3 of 5)
It's Black History Month, so all this week, I'm reposting every single past AFOS blog post about one of my favorite films, Do the Right Thing, the timeless (except for Radio Raheem's boombox and "Dump...
View Article5-Piece Cartoon Dinner (02/20/2013): Archer, Gravity Falls, Bob's Burgers,...
After the vacuum cleaner in the "Legs" episode's flashback, Katya is the second machine Archer has banged. That can only mean one thing: watch your back, El Camino.Every Wednesday in "5-Piece Cartoon...
View ArticleAFOS Blog Rewind: Do the Right Thing (Part 4 of 5)
It's Black History Month, so all this week, I'm reposting every single past AFOS blog post about one of my favorite films, Do the Right Thing, the timeless and still-bracing 1989 Spike Lee Joint. You...
View ArticleAFOS Blog Rewind: Do the Right Thing (Part 5 of 5)
It's Black History Month, so all this week, I've been reposting every single past AFOS blog post about one of my favorite films, Do the Right Thing, the timeless and still-bracing 1989 Spike Lee Joint....
View Article5-Piece Cartoon Dinner (02/27/2013): Bravest Warriors, Archer, Out There,...
I keep misidentifying Out There as Over There, that Gulf War show that starred Sticky Fingaz from Onyx. What I really need to do before writing is... cram! Duh duh duh, duh duh duh. Let the boys be...
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