A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.

Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing.

The way I pictured it, all this grief would be like a winter night when you're standing outside. You'll warm up once you get used to the cold. Except after you've been out there for awhile, you feel the warmth draining out of you and you realize the opposite is happening; you're getting colder and colder, as the body heat you brought outside with you seeps out of your skin. Instead of getting used to it, you get weaker the longer you endure it.

'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.

A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.

When I was a junior, my school introduced badminton, which was clearly a P.E. department ploy to get me away from the wrestling room, and it worked, since the first time I played badminton was like the first time I tasted sushi or heard the Beatles or read Wordsworth. This was a sport? This counted for gym requirements?

'So You Think You Can Dance' comes on as a high-minded leap up the evolutionary ladder from other reality shows - on this one, you're supposed to learn something, and the guest judges are fellow dance professionals rather than actual celebrities.