I went to the Goodwill this past weekend and found some circular, vinyl gems.


$1.99 for a full album. Suck it, iTunes!

I just finished up the second trade paperback in the comic series of Buffy season 8 and I have come to a conclusion.

For me, Joss Whedon is like Shakespeare.

His stories are better when they are performed. "Buffy" and "Firefly" make far better TV series than comic books. While the plots are still good, the dialogue comes off as forced and the characters a little two-dimensional (pun intended).

And yet, like some sort of Joss junkie, I keep purchasing his graphic stories. Maybe it would help if he started writing in iambic pentameter.

Kids in the Hall, my favorite sketch comedy group of all time (yes, slightly more than Monty Python), performed live in Portland for the first time ever last night. And I was there.

The material? All new. The performances? They still got it.

What I loved about it was that the whole thing seemed very organic. It was a bunch of comedy professionals having fun on the stage. They were trying to make each other laugh and forget lines while entertaining the audience. They didn't just rehash all their old skits to pay their taxes on their Canadian mansions. You could actually see them creating comedy instead of just hitting their marks. Brilliant.

In an interview with the Oregonian, Mark McKinney stated that "you get into trouble if you start with the idea of which character you have to use -- the premise has to be first." Something a certain other comedy sketch show that starts with an "S" and ends with an "Aturday Night Live" does not do.

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