Wednesday, September 11, 2013

ALL HAIL THE SHRINE OF THE SILVER MONKEY: Today's the 20th anniversary of the premiere of Legends of the Hidden Temple, and Buzzfeed has a lengthy remembrance from host Kirk Fogg and Olmec voice Dee Bradley Baker.
"IF WE ARE OFFENDING ONE PERSON, WE NEED TO BE LISTENING, AND MAKING SURE WE'RE DOING THE RIGHT THINGS TO TRY TO ADDRESS THAT":  It sure sounds like NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell's attitudes are evolving towards the nickname of the Maryland-Based Professional Football Team Which Got Run Over By The Chip Kelly Express This Week.
PAGING BIRDIE, THE EARLY BIRD:  Matt Yglesias throws down:
Every sensible person realizes that the only way to improve on the Egg McMuffin is to switch it up and order the Sausage McMuffin With Egg. Is it conceivable that in some remote corner of the universe McDonald's is going to invent a better breakfast product? Yes, maybe. Or maybe not. Asking whether McDonald's can make a better breakfast sandwich than the Sausage McMuffin With Egg is a bit like asking whether God could make an object so massive that he couldn't move it.
(Yes, I miss the old days.)
ALOTT5MA GRAMMAR RODEO AND FUNK-FOLK ENSEMBLE:  Slate's David Haglund notes with disappointment that none of pop music's trios—whether Earth, Wind & Fire, Peter, Paul and Mary, Crosby, Stills & Nash, or other notables—seem to employ the Oxford comma.  (Nor, of course, does Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe.)

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

I COULD REALLY GO FOR A WHATABURGER RIGHT NOW:Buzzfeed ranks 39 major fast food chains by how gross they are.  I suspect we will have opinions on this pressing issue, in particular the taco-related matters.
REMEMBER ZELMO BEATY:  Stefan Fatsis explains why.
THE MAILSACK THUD OF ANOTHER BOY GOING HOME TO JESUS:  There's something about the promos for the Million Second Quiz that strikes me as horribly dystopian, one of the stories where the Great Game Show has a dreadful underlying secret or a cost so obvious that no one notices it anymore: Death Race 2000, the Running Man, the Long Walk, the Hunger Games, usw.