Husker Du
I had a chance to see Husker Du in San Francisco in 1987, but instead, decided to see my friends' band play, because it was a road trip and that's what you do for your friends.

Another lost opportunity: the team with the best record was the Montreal Expos.

Thanks, all of you, for ruining sex for me.

Do we really think that Riker would have stood up to the Cardassian torture in the same way that Picard did?

Griffey Wasn't Even Leading the Majors in Home Runs
I know that it's a small thing, but while Jr. got off to a great start that year, by the time that the strike came around, he wasn't even leading the MLB in HR.

I work for a media company/website that makes all of its money from advertising, and there is a constant battle going on between the kind of obtrusiveness that the advertisers want — and what the sales people will promise those advertisers — and what the product/content people know the audience hates.

That Jonathan Richman has been able to do exactly what he wants to do for as long as he has isn't just the ultimate manifestation of punk, it's the ultimate manifestation of all that is good and right and holy in this world.

I like 'em because they've got a good beat and I can dance to them.

Just because they all do it doesn't mean it's necessarily correct. We've all gotten used to smaller paragraphs on the internet because the columns are so relatively small, it's easier to read a bunch of smaller paragraphs than it is to read a few larger paragraphs.

No, but Bruce did write, "summer's here and the time is right for racing in the street."

Tony's Girlfriends
Am rewatching from the beginning, and I was struck how Tony was with a blonde in the pilot.

@Idiotking,

It's a bar called "Twitter," Cookie.

Well, also for the utterly amazing essay about Elvis Presley.

Top Ten Van Morrison albums
Since I think he deserves a Primer, and noone else has done this:

One of the Twitter accounts I have is for work. And because I use TweetDeck, I occasionally tweet some snarky pop-culture oriented crap from the work account, with hilarious results!

barefootjim on all of the internets forever.

Twitter? What is this Twitter of which you speak?

I prefer repeatedly slamming mine on the dining room table.

Does your marriage somehow seem MORE real now that there is an AVC blog post about it?