Hunky Dory was an easy sell, but I think that's because so many of the songs were featured on the Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou in Portuguese acoustic arrangements (where I first encountered them). Young Americans is pretty easy on first listen, too.

After three rounds of Mass Effect 3 multiplayer, I found myself playing New Ground's first console game, Alien Hominid. Without all the continues and extra lives it offers, that game is unplayable. Thankfully, the hand-drawn animation and humor make every hard-won battle worth it.

I have a DON'T GIVE UP HOPE t-shirt with Artie on it from The Adventures of Pete & Pete. I got nostalgic for the show around 2003 and, through Internet search, found a guy who was making them. It turned out we were both going to be at the San Diego Comic Con, so we met up and I purchased a shirt. It still fits, but…

Bazan is mumbly? I've seen the guy three times and I could make out every word. Also, Bazan is someone I'd probably get defensive over.

I'm trying to work this in to what he said, but I can't, so I'll just brag that I got to see him lecture and it ruled.

I had stopped watching All That by the time the Amanda Show was on, so I don't know much about that era. I honestly haven't revisited the show since then, but I have seen some Roundhouse on YouTube and man was it putrid.

Roundhouse opened with a In Living Color-esque dance number and had a positive social message every week.

Second true story: I met Kenan Thompson at the Atlanta Airport when I was 13. We were picking my dad up (back when you could actually walk up to the gate) and, as we walked to the luggage carousels, we passed him sitting at a gate. I instantly knew who it was, but was too scared to say anything. After a couple minutes…

Yeah! I thought this was the episode with Luscious Jackson.

Larisa Oleynik was also in season 4 as Ken's fiancee. I remember that Nick really hyped her appearance in this episode in the promos and then she's barely in the episode.

Something for the whole family.

Now I sound like the dick.

Both are terminal degrees… and one is more likely to get you a job.

Dude, that's SCANNERS.

Get a Raymond Carver or Tobias Wolff tat, dude. Be the envy of the creative writing department.

I hope a tattoo of this post is planned for your right bicep.

Which begs the question "why get it?" Explaining tattoos just sounds dickish. Tattoos are the only piece of graphic art aimed at an audience of one (generally speaking), which is ridiculous because it's right there for everyone else to look and think "Why do they have a [insert image]? on their bicep?"

A TIGER TEARING OUT OF UR SKIN

Laughing at the dichotomies of life while filling your belly.

That would have to be Earthworm Jim for me.