Genesis by Genesis. Exodus by Exodus. Um…

Any Motörhead song could be used for this purpose. (Or any Van Halen song.)

Manowar, "Blood of the Kings"….Diamanda Galas' "Sono l'Antichristo"…7 Seconds' "I Hate Sports" would also be cool, if confusing.

A little more carrying, and a little less attitude, Lydia. Thanks.

I would suggest that (a) people who say they like the Pixies probably like the Pixies, and the problem of sincere/insincere Pixies appreciation exists only in your mind…and (b) if some people say they like the Pixies but really don't, who gives a fuck?

I haven't seen Lydia in months. I wonder if she's still sitting in that chair in my pad in Whiterun.

I had a phase when I'd play lots of shitty flashplayer games to kill time at work (Burrito Bison, Don't Touch My Gems…stuff from mofunzone). Typically it doesn't take long to finish the game, but then you've gotta get all the trophies. That's when things get shameful.

Skyrim sort of invites you to get all OCD about alchemy, because the ingredients are everywhere, and it's the most sure-fire way of making a lot of money (and it sucks to have no money). With Hearthfire, you can take the OCD to the next level: I remember spending an hour or two collecting every fish in the game to…

Antanaclasis, "the stylistic scheme of repeating a single word or phrase, but with a different meaning" (Wiki). As in Othello, "Put out the light [blow out the candle], and then put out the light [kill Desdemona]."

It's a fine line between stupid and clever. There's a poetics term for this, when a word is repeated, but with a different meaning…what's the term?

My summer project was to watch all of DS9. I read the AV Club's DS9 reviews as I went along, and I'd like to say to Rappin' Jake Sisko: you are my hero.

Speaking of Sabbath: "Generals gathered in their masses/just like witches at black masses."

For me, the ultimate awesome but cringe-worthy song is Patti Smith's "Rock n Roll N…" Or maybe it's not awesome…maybe it's terrible, and I'm terrible for loving it.

Captain Picard's grumpy wine-making brother (RIP) was pretty boss as well.

Heroin makes sense to me, because it feels really, really good. Sometimes games aren't that fun, but one persists with them because one can't stop.

My pattern has been: (a) get sucked into a sweet new game, play it obsessively for a couple of weeks, (b) hate myself for lacking self-control, (c) go cold turkey on games for several months…then back to (a).

The notifications for upvotes thing happened to me last week, briefly. I tried changing "user settings" to make it stop, but apparently the only setting you can change is your password. It stopped on its own.

I confess: I too loved Reagan when I was that age. (What can I say? I was given some bad information.) But I really hated this fucking song…we were forced to sing it in chorus, and I almost died of embarrassment.

I'm ambivalent about Spartacus speak (where "You're a Roman" becomes "You stand Roman," "thanks" becomes "gratitude," and all that). Sometimes I found it clever, different, and world-appropriate…and sometimes, off-putting (when the same weird construction is used a dozen times in an episode). Maybe they painted…

Exactly. Derailing a conversation to nitpick some grammar/style error is much more annoying to me than the error itself. Better to be incorrect than rude/pompous.