Besides, who wants bums in their theater?

language nerds to the rescue!
You meant *inversely* proportional, of course.

I'm from San Francisco, so i support Leyton Orient. Please don't ask.

bummer.
The death of a black man called "Pimp", who was once found guilty of aggravated gun assault, helps me deal, just a little, with the wiggafication of the Chipmunks. But just a little.

upper-middle-class
Guns. Thugs. AWOL Soldiers. Sexual situations. Yep, sure sounds like Christmas to me.

hate to interrupt the hatin', but
this seems not to have gotten mentioned, from the AP article:

Downie - That's not gonna happen.

If i could drink them in my personal aircar, i suppose i wouldn't mind as much.

two large beers, cooled in liquid air
is one of my least favorite lines in the history of classic SF. First of all, People Of The Future would no more ask for that than we would ask for "two large beers, cooled in liquid Freon"; secondly, your lips would freeze to the glass.

Yes, music did in fact exist before you were born. FYI.

Especially once you realize that he pronounces it "The Kick In Sodomy". Once you hear it, you can never go back.

missed one
_Sons & Fascination_ (1981) rates a mention too, as a transition between the two styles - it's got some of my favourite music of theirs on it, without the annoyingly fey Christiany bits in their later stuff.

Pointless Irony Death Spiral

the reason i find her annoying…
…is that there's always a big pile of her books in the used section, right where the W.G. Sebalds should be, which is what i'm actually looking for.

just one more Alan Moore, please…
Lost Girls.

I'm surprised Saturday Night Live hasn't been mentioned yet
The Daily Show jumped the shark when Keith Olbermann left. Get over it, people.

an awesome, atmospheric film…
…"until the plot kicks in", at which point it turns utterly mundane.

"More people should know about the old Rod"
Keep your disgusting perversions to yourself, please.

"Southern rock used to mean stars, bars, blues, and beer"
um… i thought it was "beers, steers, and queers"!?

beardboys
OK, Nota Bene to the guy in the middle, and the Iron And Wine dude - you're NOT OLD ENOUGH to pull off that look.
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Or dirty enough, come to think of it. On a slightly related note, nothing cracks me up quite as much as a young, well-scrubbed "punk". Nice costume - where did you hire it?