Fair enough, Frank. I suppose my description was redundant.

I like them better when they aren't being explained to me by a condescending, horse-faced, poor-man's Sarah Jessica Parker.

I'm pretty sure Amelie meant that poor Robert had no positive roll models.

What's that? Jewel has anal leakage? How unfortunate.

How about an illustrated 69 Love Songs?
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i and 1: I also had a ton of U2 stuff: LPs, 45s, tapes, CDs, bootlegs, rarities (e.g. the remixes they released for the fan club Propaganda). My U2 completism carries through to this day. I keep buying their studio albums, despite knowing I'll be disappointed. Then I listen once or twice and never again (yes, I'm…

I don't have a lot to contribute to the Guitar Hero discussion; I've only played once. I thought it was fun, but have no strong feelings about it. I do, however, have to congratulate Eli Cash. Finding a girl who digs Number of the Beast? Priceless. Don't let her go.

Bill Hicks summed up Leno as well as anyone could. Why are we still talking about him?

Yeah, I hated the Eagles long before I saw The Big Lebowski.

I also liked Extract, and thought she was pretty good in it. Why didn't you like it, Arsenio.

A friend of mine was the captain of a snowboarding team sponsored by Pol Roger. Free champagne is awesome.

The writing in the NYT is often terrible. Who teaches these journalists to write, and can we fire that person as soon as possible, please?

Blasphemer!

The great thing about the boat is that, assuming it's a sailboat and you know how to sail it, you don't need a lot of fuel. Set up a few of planters, get a fishing line, and you can hang out in the tropics indefinitely. The downside is getting back in to shore past the submerged but still active zombies. Make sure…

Really, a German Shepard for the angsty teen? You sure you don't want something more neurotic, like a vizsla?

A kind sentiment; thanks.

Wizard and Glass was always my favorite of the DT series. I think it contains some of King's best writing and some of his best storytelling.

1974 was obviously a good vintage. I haven't owned a car since 2001, when I sold my 1989 Saab, the fifth car I owned. Since then I've lived in either San Francisco or New York, and just never needed or wanted the headaches of car ownership in either of those places. I do love driving when I go out west, though.

I would never want to take away your experience of owning a shitty car. My first car was a 1974 VW Beetle that sprayed water all over me whenever I drove through a puddle because the floor was all rusted out. When I upgraded to the 1979 Subaru station wagon, it might as well have been a Maserati from my perspective.

Smack: computers are also useful for combat because rolling dice every turn is really inefficient. In some ways, I feel like D&D was an idea waiting for computers to catch up to it so you could streamline play. The downside is that you lose the social ("demented and sad, but social") aspects of playing with a…