He's right that KROQ is basically the worst though. Every time I'm stuck driving through LA (everyone in Southern California who likes to travel has been stuck driving through LA), I turn on the radio and there's Sublime, there's Nirvana, there's Bush and Live, and all the other bubble grunge also-rans like the last…

No, but having the time to waste on something that inane might be…

A lot of girls don't realize those girls exist either. Even when they are those girls.

Yeah, but anyone with that kind of money to burn can afford the travel expenses.

Watch Re-Animator. It's cheesy as all hell, but incredibly entertaining.

Frank just says, "threefer, because he's also gay." The first two being "black man" and "harvard man" is not repeated.

The best part of Muffin Top is probably the way the "uhhh! uhhhn!" sex moans start up right when she's telling the guy to back up off of her. Mixed signals, much?

*sees guest star* *hoots and applauds exuberantly* *applauds too exuberantly* *gasps torturedly* *desperately clutches at chest* *breathlessly, inaudibly pleas for help* *collapses* *death rattle* *is silent*

I don't know, ba-ZING and BAH-zing also seem acceptable.

Yeah, I'm not sure how emmy voters could possibly relate to a show about upper-middle class West Coast suburbanites.

Nah, you're hardly alone. I sort of tried to watch a couple episodes, but it just seemed like bland rich people dealing with no stakes "problems" like "my hot Colombian wife takes too long getting ready for things."

Yeah, even ratface, foreign nerd, and blond lady are too good for that show.

Who knew McPickleshitter was such a fan of awkward smirking?

Wait, they finally got on that shit? I stopped reading and editing in a huff a few years back because it seemed like the unbearable nerdlords and their fanwanking had completely overwhelmed the thoughtful, funny literary criticism that had been the original core of the site. It seemed like the people running the site…

Yeah, no. The man's name was Cristoforo Colombo. With an O. In Spanish he's called Cristobol Colon. With an O. Latin was the language of education in Europe at the time, so the Latinized version of his last name is what's generally used outside of Italy and Spain, but calling it his actual name is pretty stupid.

I thought it was pretty funny, but it made me realize that the lyrics are only a small part of why I hate the original and this parody suffers for me for being too similar. The interspersed "hey hey hey!" thing in particular is nails on a chalkboard to me.

My mom used to put a little orange juice in the scrambled eggs she made. It didn't taste bad, exactly, but her eggs were soggy enough already, she didn't need to make it worse.

Yeah, the "originally there" thing is itself a prescriptivist argument. Not that I actually care that much.

Also you weren't kidding about the online thesauruses. I typed "tree" into thesaurus.com, and not only was the listed definition, "noun large plant enclosed in bark and shedding leaves" blatantly wrong (what about evergreens, genius?), but the synonyms included words like "forest," "timber," and "shrub."

That's a surprisingly common problem with printed thesauruses as well. There are far fewer (far less, heh) true synonyms than people think because even if two words have basically the same dictionary definition (denotation) they can still have radically different common usages (connotation). Thesauruses rarely explain…