Eliminated in the first round: Kingston Calypso, Dr. NoOpening Titles, From Russia With Love (both instrumental and with vocals)Lulu, The Man with the Golden GunShirley Bassey, MoonrakerRita Coolidge, All Time High (Octopussy)Gladys Knight, License to KillSheryl Crow, Tomorrow Never DiesMadonna, … Continue reading Best Bond Song: Round of 16 – VOTING IS CLOSED
Pretty simple really: there are 25 films in the Eon/Broccoli Bond series (which does not include the original Casino Royale or Never Say Never Again). Three movies have multiple themes, so we have 28 songs competing for the title of … Continue reading Best Bond Song: Seeding/Elimination Round VOTING IS CLOSED
By Jean Caffey Lyles. Originally published in the April/May 1983 print edition of the Wittenburg Door, #72. I think there are a few different things we can take from this. Much of Fred’s behavior is now de facto among both … Continue reading From the Archives of the Wittenburg Door: Macho Feminism
The following passages are all taken from Claire McNear’s new essay for The Ringer “A Smile With Sharp Teeth”: Mike Richards’s Rise to ‘Jeopardy!’ Host Sparks Questions About His Past, which can be found here: https://www.theringer.com/tv/2021/8/18/22631299/mike-richards-jeopardy-host-search-process-past-comments. This represents a combination … Continue reading “A Smile With Sharp Teeth”: A discussion space for the new allegations/complaints against Jeopardy host Mike Richards
When you’re lovers in a dangerous timeSometimes you’re made to feel as if your love’s a crimeBut nothing worth having comes without some kind of fightGot to kick at the darkness ’til it bleeds daylight – Bruce Cockburn This day … Continue reading Day Thread (8/1) In A Dangerous Time
Moe Berg was a major-league catcher AND a World War II spy for the Office of Strategic Services. He could be considered baseball’s answer to Chuck Barris, except Berg actually did everything he claimed to do. Born to a Jewish … Continue reading The Moe Berg Day Thread: Confessions of a Dangerous Catcher
The death of Ole Anthony (I wrote about him a while ago in the OT and PT) got me thinking about The Wittenburg Door – an amateurish, defunct magazine that influenced both my religious beliefs and my lack thereof in … Continue reading From the Archives of the Wittenburg Door: How to Spend Fifteen Million Dollars
Graça Machel, born 17 October 1945, is a Mozambican politician and humanitarian. Among her accomplishments: graduate of the University of Lisbon. speaks German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, English, and Xitsonga. served as the Minister of Education for Mozambique; during her … Continue reading The Graça Machel Day Thread (Monday April 19)
Today’s night thread celebrates our favorite Muppet and what is likely our favorite Muppet song – Rainbow Connection, from 1979’s The Muppet Movie. But it also celebrates the 24 other recordings added last week to the National Recording Registry. Please … Continue reading Night Thread of Rainbow Connection (and other new songs on the National Recording Registry)
This isn’t favorite Irish media, necessarily – this is media/art that’s actually about Ireland, being Irish, or being Irish-American. I’ll start: here’s a lovely song about wanting to go home. Continue reading Favorite Media about Ireland and/or the Irish-American experience
SynopsisHomer is delighted with the positive attention he receives after a new television show airs that features a police character also named Homer Simpson. However, when the character is changed from a hero to a bumbling idiot by the show’s … Continue reading The Simpsons s10e13: Homer to the Max
SynopsisWhile buying new tires for his car, Homer meets a travel agent who offers Homer a free bus ride to the Super Bowl, as long as he can find enough people to fill the agent’s bus. A group of Springfield … Continue reading The Simpsons s10e12: Sunday Cruddy Sunday
SynopsisHomer, Lenny, Carl, and Barney celebrate a rare victory of the Springfield Isotopes baseball team and end up going on a drunken rampage through town. During this rampage, they vandalize Springfield Elementary School. The next morning, Chief Wiggum suspects that … Continue reading The Simpsons s10e11: Wild Barts Can’t Be Broken
SynopsisWhen Springfield’s only casino is demolished, massive dust clouds form, prompting the Simpson family and Ned Flanders to go to a car wash to get rid of the dust on their cars. There, Homer sees Ned gets a senior discount. … Continue reading The Simpsons s10e10: Viva Ned Flanders
SynopsesHomer Simpson in Kidney Trouble: on the way home from a family road trip, Homer ignores Grandpa’s pleas for a rest stop, causing Abe’s kidneys to explode. Homer promises to donate one of his, but panics and runs away on … Continue reading The Simpsons s10e8: “Homer Simpson in: Kidney Trouble” / The Simpsons s10e9: “Mayored to the Mob”
Synopsis After missing numerous opportunities to study, Lisa resorts to cheating in order to pass a test. Her A+++ pushes Springfield Elementary over the state’s minimum standard, entitling them to a basic assistance grant. Lisa is faced with a serious … Continue reading The Simpsons s10e7: Lisa Gets an A
SynopsisFor reasons not worth telling here and never discussed again, Homer needs to learn his full middle name. In doing so, he falls into a bohemian lifestyle, embracing his mother’s hippie past to the detriment of his family’s present. ReviewI’m … Continue reading The Simpsons s10e6: Doh’in’ in the Wind
Synopsis A parasailing mishap leads Homer to crash into the “escape the media” home of Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger. He insinuates himself into their lives, taking over their chores and their private spaces. When Homer blabs their presence, the … Continue reading The Simpsons s10e5: When You Dish Upon A Star
Synopsis Homer gets the late Snake’s hair as a transplant, but inherits Snake’s evil, vengeful soul (Hell Toupee); Bart and Lisa are sucked into an episode of Itchy and Scratchy (The Terror of Tiny Toon); the family appears on the … Continue reading The Simpsons s10e4: Treehouse of Horror IX
Synopsis An unpleasant encounter with Nelson Muntz lead Marge to warn Bart never to spend time with him. “Nelson’s a troubled, lonely, sad little boy,” she says. “He needs to be isolated from everyone.” Ignoring this, Bart walks to the … Continue reading The Simpsons s10e3: Bart the Mother
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