If being smart means that I'm not allowed to enjoy Spartacus anymore, then I don't want to be smart.

I used to despise the Dead because my brother and all of his friends were huge Deadheads, and I was Mr. Punk Rock, so liking the Dead would be some sort of betrayal of my identity…but now that I'm older and wiser, I'm starting to really like them.  I've just dipped my feet in (American Beauty), but I now recognize…

It drives me a little crazy that Bob Marley has become such an easy target for dismissal, because he's associated with the stereotypical idiot hackysack groovy frat boy stoner crowd.  Fuck that.  Bob Marley is awesome.

You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

Bailiff, whack his pee pee.

With that said, I will still insist that I came up with the idea for the upside-down ketchup bottle before anyone.

I don't get your point.  It's possible to believe, at the same time, that (a) nobody should be homeless or unemployed, and (b) people should be stopped from doing certain shitty things for money.

Well, the patent trolls are trolling in the sense of fishing, throwing out a baited line (hoping to find somebody to sue).  In the same way that internet trolls leave obnoxious comments as bait (hoping that someone will respond). So, it totally applies here.

Don't get involved, Bartleby!

Nerd cock!

Kashmir?

The snot-wash thing puzzled me too: is it supposed to be a hygiene thing, or a ritual thing (like "passing the peace pipe")?

The last five minutes of this episode were very Empire Strikes Back.  I fully expect Crassus to bring on the AT-ATs next week.

This theory makes me think of Joan Baez.  She sang a lot of classic folk songs, but her voice is so "pretty" that we don't buy for a second that she's singing about her own experience.  E.g., compare her version of "East Virginia" to the Carter Family's.  Fuck Joan Baez, is all I'm saying.

Which is why Darby Crash has the best voice of anyone, ever.

Just stopped by to say: "Moulty" is a fucking great (and fucking weird) song.

Agreed. Fucked Up singer sounds like Rollins…CM vocals (Cannibal Corpse, et al.) sound like…well, Cookie Monster!  Not sure why one is acceptable to me and the other is not.

Lorenzo Lamas has really let himself go.

Reminds of that scene from Amadeus: "too many notes! just cut a few, and it'll be perfect!"

Listen to the "Scoop" albums to get an idea of what classic Who songs would sound like if Townshend did all the vocals.