This poor fellow puts a lot of effort into discussing the potential scientific inaccuracies of the 1980s Transformers cartoons.
I will try to find a YouTube video of a grown woman chatting about her Barbie dolls or the Strawberry Shortcake cartoon.
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Philip Seymour Hoffman, 1967 – 2014
One of my favorite moments from one of my favorite performances by him:
Matt Smith Leaves The Beatles…
Quentin Tarantino once pointed out that if you just listened to the audience reaction to Marrin Scorsese’s Goodfellas you’d think they were watching a comedy. Based on these YouTube clips of women reacting to Matt Smith’s final episode of Doctor Who, you’d think they were watching Steel Magnolias after putting their childhood pet to sleep.
Sometime in 1988…
My mother: How can the song be “Angel Eyes”? The boy can’t see. That’s not mean. That’s just the truth.
SER: It’s possible he’s singing from another person’s perspective.
My mother: No, he’s with the girl in the video. He can’t see her. You could take it seriously if he was singing about her voice, because a blind person’s hearing is supposed to be strong.
SER: So… “Angel Voice”?
Lyrical Note…
DO NOT USE POP SONG LYRICS IN YOUR BOOK.
It’s the one piece of advice I consistently give other writers and the one piece of advice that is most consistently ignored. Yet if they were to listen to just one thing I tell them, this would be it:
DO NOT USE POP SONG LYRICS IN YOUR BOOK.
It is expensive — often prohibitively so — and it’s often unnecessary if you stretch yourself. I rewrote a lot of song lyrics out of my first book, Mahogany Slade. At the time, I didn’t see how it would be possible and the, once complete, I was glad I’d removed the lyrics, as they had become anchors on the story. Instead, I found other means of conveying how important music was to the characters.
Blake Morrison wrote a great “learn by example” piece about this in The Guardian.
Now did I forget anything? Oh right…
DO NOT USE POP SONG LYRICS IN YOUR BOOK.
Batman meets Sweet Charity…
Adam West, Burt Ward and Gwen Verdon on the Merv Griffin Show in September of 1966. West, as ever, is just perfectly cool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w78vKDqXcYM
serhasacomplaint 
“Girls” and copyright law…
An informed update on the GoldieBlox and Beastie Boys “Girls” debacle.
What I’d most amusing is if The Isley Brothers sued The Beastie Boys for their unlicensed and unpaid sample of “Shout!” for their 1987 song.
And Licensed to Ill is as “satirically” sexist as Kanye West is “satirically” narcissistic.
Posted by Stephen Robinson on December 12, 2013 in Pop Life, Social Commentary
Tags: Beastie Boys, GoldieBlox