If you ask them, they'll say yes, but then they sneer at you like they're not so you can't tell if they're ironically pretending to like it or if they're just like that all the time with everything.

As well it should be. He should have known better than to say Fox was justified in canceling Firefly.

I do the same.  I think they're capable of producing some genuinely good songs that are really enhanced by placing their story lines in historical periods.  But most of the time I find their theatrics to be too precious to be anything but infuriating.

Well, here's a pretty good example of what not to do.

This got a B-? The Ting Tings are like the 311 of the hipster era. You will eat crow for this, Weiss.

It totally is.  I'm in the same boat as you- I can't remember much about the song at this point except that there are some pretty obvious vaginal symbols in the poem.

SUCK LIVES would actually make for an awesome name for a Gwar style band.  Who wants to be the giant man eating worm thing?  Being able to play the bass a plus.

I think it has to do, at least in part, with the fact he's the only remnant of Kyuss still with Homme.  Garcia is off with Unida and Bjork is doing god knows what, but I think the idea that Oliveri was still around tied Homme- and by extension the whole act- to the Kyuss days, which have for better or worse been…

The first album is pretty solid, and that's about it.  Song for the Deaf and Rated R were both bids for greatness that never locate any staying power, which I've never forgiven them for.

Terrorcest: terrorize!

Isn't Kyuss an acronym for "Kiss your ugly, saggy scrotum?"  These are things I think I remember from being 16 when liking Kyuss was cool.

Greta Van Susteren's existence is denigrating to women.

Italy is lucky Spain exists or else it would be the laughing stock of Europe.

It's possible to claim that the (basically) original inhabitants of Iran were Indo-Aryans, and you'd sort of be right.  When the Indo Europeans made their massive, history altering migrations outward from the Caucus mountains, the group that settled in Iran rather than continuing into the area of India, which was…

The Dead Kennedys already got you covered: http://www.youtube.com/watc…

That's a little bit of an overstatement, but there are definitely parallels to be drawn.  I read an article once about how applying the Celtic Tiger model of Ireland in the 1990s to Israel/Palestine could conceivably reduce ethnic violence there, but the older I get the more ridiculous I think that article was because…

Right?  Also, there are some pretty stunning ballads from the industrial revolution era England about how awful factory life was for unskilled English workers.  Rich English people made life pretty miserable for everyone: http://www.youtube.com/watc…

Just as a tangent, I took a class in college on the relationship between Irish mythology and contemporary politics, and the professor played the intro to The Magdalene Sisters where the priest plays "The Well Below the Valley" and I've wanted a bodhran ever since.  Traditional Irish music is absolutely beautiful.

@OhthePossibilities:disqus Oh man, I never knew he was in a sketch before he was a correspondent!  Also, I really like the idea of Stefon having a mythos all to himself, like he's a virgin birth, or the Highlander or something.

Kristen Wiig as Liza was the high point of the night for me.  They got everything right in that sketch, which comes once in a blue moon for SNL.