No, they're not so great. The whole mole man section was kind of eh, especially standing in comparison to the hobo section in Areas. But the A- is totally appropriate. The introduction is fucking brilliant.

Really? Imitating late-00s sex-addict David Duchovny gets you laid?

Californication isn't even close to okay.

Kind of wish there were more towns, though. I've been exploring for a while and all I've found is Megaton, Rivet City, and Tenpenny Tower. And none of them have been nearly as interesting and fleshed out as New Reno or Vault City. Am I missing something? The game's great otherwise.

West Oakland on Election Night
I got home from school around 10, and stopped by the liquor store. I was paying for my beer and lemonade when two guys came in chanting "Obama's in the house! Obama's in the house!" The dude who ran the store's like "You must be smoking crack. You a felon, you can't vote." And they were…

The first episode worked for me pretty much just because of Tracy's delivery of:

As someone taking a mixed-undergrad/graduate class called Poetry Center Workshop, I can back this up. You are. Who the fuck smokes clove cigarettes?

I just watched it a second time, and it gets so much better. This time I noticed Grizz and Dot Com's shrugs when Liz asks if Lil' Wayne is a person. Totally appropriate reaction.

I kind of always thought he played Ben on Lost. But that guy was in a Saw too, right?

You showed more honesty and bravery
than Matt Damon in that movie about poker.

"All you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules. Then I'll pee on you."

There's a huge billboard for this
right before the Bay Bridge, right where I always get stuck in traffic. It's a picture of these enthusiastic young people jumping with their mouths hanging open while wearing caps and gowns. I try to tell myself it's not the billboard's fault. But I can't figure out why adults are…

Fatman and the Creature (There Was No Creature)

The areas of my expertise
is literally in my top 5 favorite books of all time. People don't take me seriously when I say that, but I am. It even gave me my last screen name (Great Blue Insult). I fucking love this man. Nobody in popular media today makes me laugh harder.

It's hella weird how that word has become popularized so quickly. It spread to the SF Peninsula by the time I was in fifth grade, but I was totally aware that it was a regional thing. Then in high school, in the early 2000s, I started noticing non-Bay Area rappers using it; I think Tech N9ne was probably the first, or…

Arcade Fire… I went to see them in Berkeley a year and a half ago. That turned out to be the last date I ever went on with somebody, and I took out all my anger about that situation on Arcade Fire. I even started calling them "Neutral Milk Hotel for people who like suspenders," which I now know is wrong. Looking back…

Wednesdayfest
The word of 2008.

A firstie complaining about the lack of prior firsties? That's fuckin' meta.

this is going to make me sound like i wear sweaters but…
…The fucking Decemberists. I know. But they put a hell of a show that night at the Warfield a couple years ago.

Rounders? Really?
"What you did showed more honesty and bravery than Matt Damon in that movie about poker."