If you are old enough, then you remember this video. From back when Michael was still Michael, the full 14 minute original John Landis’ Michael Jackson’s Thriller! Happy Halloween!

My kids are living an asynchronous life. This dawned on me on the way to school the other morning. A song was playing on Radio Disney that both my 5 and 8 year old were singing along with. As it ended, my son yelled, “Play it again, daddy.”

“Ummm, I can’t,” I said, “that was on the radio.”

In a struggle to maintain some patience with my clearly nonsensical response, he said, “Daddy, just hit the backwards button.”

Tim Goodman is the best TV critic in the world, writing for the SF Chronicle and his The Bastard Machine blog. Well, OK. He’s actually the only TV critic I remember ever actually reading. But still the best, right? Its his fault I’m wasting time in front of Life on Mars, Minor Accomplishments and Battlestar Galactica, among others.

He was looking for a word to describe those shows that you TiVo and then never actually get around to watching. He couldn’t find one so he made one up–TiNo. Masterful. Read his whole take here.

Forwarded to me by my friend Devin…”Pokemon” is my clear favorite…got any more feel free to add them in comments.

Once again, The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words.

The winners are:

1. Coffee (n.), the person upon whom one coughs.

2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.