I get why the torture skit is *supposed* to be funny, but I kind of hate it a lot and it never ever want to hear it again, and the fact that it's attached to the best song on the album just makes it worse.  No worries, though; I chopped the whole thing off the version on my ipod.  Good riddance.

Well, at least you get to feel superior to everyone!  That must at least take SOME of the sting out of it!

The OP KNOWS A GUY, dammit!  A GUY!  PERSONALLY!  Case closed!

Great Caesar's Ghost!

The clock reads 9:38.  A thousand years from now it will still be ticking.

The original Quixote is okay as far as it goes, but you really have to read my pal Pierre's version if you want to see it done right.

>>I thought the Phantom Menace was a halfway decent kids movie, no better
or worse than the other films I'd half seen years before.

I loved the shit out of Elfquest when I was small.  Recently, I decided to try to reread it, and…even putting aside the dubious racial/gender politics,  I was kind of amazed how much I didn't like it the second time around.  I suppose a lot of it's just down to evolving tastes; the aggressively precious, candy-colored…

The question remains: shouldn't this be covered in Sawbuck Gamer?

HEY, IF YOU'RE INSULTING ROKKON AND STONEDAR, YOU'RE INSULTING ME!

Wow—thanks(?).  I pretty much agree with Amanda Marcotte's take: an unwarranted reaction to an innocuous comic, to which reaction Mike and Jerry respond by being huge dicks.  I'm almost tempted to suggest that when your entire life revolves around nothing but bullshitting about videogames, a certain amount of…

He was a family man; he made a living robbing trains.

Yeah, I'm "free," assuming I have the money and I have no job or family obligations or anything trivial like that and assuming I can *find* a state that has laws to my liking and I can manage to build a life there.

Yeah, so a few people die, maybe a few hundred who didn't read the label, WHATEVER, FREE MARKET, it's a SMALL price to pay for, um.

>>say Romney gets elected and turns out to be more liberal than Obama in a lot of ways that generally don't get acknowledged.

It's not the *federal* government's job to call the shots.  When *state* governments do it, that's "freedumb," for reasons that no one can explain.

Oh man, I used to read Penny Arcade regularly, and I do think they were/are occasionally capable of a funny comic, and even when they weren't funny per se, I often liked their whimsical sensibility.  I stopped reading them some years ago, because at some point either they became less amusing or my sensibility became…

Yeah, this is definitely an issue, and has been since I started blogging.  I'm sure (fairly sure) there's some way to fix it, but I haven't figured it out yet.

[Simpsons quote about taking Bart to see Police Academy]

"Big money!  Big prizes!  I love it!"