robharvilla
Rob Harvilla
robharvilla
Culture Editor

Yeah Odelay vs. Vultures is close, but close enough. The fact that Vultures really freaked people out at the time is pretty endearing. Read more

Now playing

I will concede that I really like Raising Sand, even if that makes me somewhat of an old fart myself.

Sales/popularity matter to the Grammys, like it or not; Bieber was huge at that point, and all the chatter leading up to the ceremony that year was him vs. Drake. To pick somebody largely unknown to fans of both camps seemed like pretty explicit trolling. JB's fans didn't take it well. Read more

I loved Go Dog, Go! as a kid; now that I'm reading it to my own kid, I'm realizing the boy hat dog is basically negging the girl hat dog. Read more

PD Eastman is a repeated offender for The Best Nest, which consists largely of a shrill Wife Bird goading an affable Husband Bird into finding her a better house. I keep meaning to research if PD was going through a divorce at the time.

I would've liked to have participated in this, but I had to leave early to attend a Bob Seger concert. Read more

An artist's depiction of Lily's editor hanging out in this comments section

I love this, in part because it's a plausible enough excuse to revisit this.

What is the social equivalent to a fielder's choice, though? You fall out a window but in so doing draw the attention of another dude, who then starts dating your girlfriend on the spot? Read more

Is it just coincidence that I've also been bombarded with advertisements for these two shows over the past several weeks? Really? Read more

That's bizarre, but the good news is this ain't exactly LOST in terms of over-arching plot coherence. Read more

No, but we'll hopefully have Will writing here a whole lot, too. Read more