In The Menagerie, Kirk mentions meeting Pike when the latter was promoted to Fleet Captain, a rank that never gets mentioned again. Presumably it would have been between Captain and Commodore?

Renoir
Jean, not Auguste. It was actually my love for the elder Renoir's paintings that made me curious about his son's films. I started with La regle du jeu (note that I'm using le titre original to demonstrate my hipster douchebagginess), and at the time I just lacked the sophistication to comprehend it (not that I…

*plays drums, freaks out audience by removing hairpiece*

Leonard Pierce: "Good grief. What a world we live in."

Ulysses blows, but Joyce is still the guy who wrote "The Dead". Lifetime pass.

I just pretend that Liz Phair died after whitechocolatespaceegg.

As long as we're voting: "Stranger Than Paradise". I saw it when it came out and I'd never seen anything remotely like it. I walked out of that theater feeling like I was the coolest person in the world, just by association.

Sometimes I'll be standing at my stove, making some scrambled eggs, and I'll do that "Karu Pakinsu." "Erubisu." "Karu Pakinsu!" bit out loud. I have no idea why.

Plainfield represent!
George Clinton formed the Parliaments in my hometown of Plainfield, New Jersey, where he owned a barbershop. Bernie Worrell was the only native Plainfielder, I think.

See, I was raging so hard that I accidentally posted before I was finished. Anyway, I haven't seen W3ndy and L0cy, but one of the scenes was filmed at the Walgreen's where I get my prescriptions filled. And buy lip balm and hand lotion. And…that's it.

W3ndy and L0cy
I'm struggling to control the blinding if nonsensical rage that arises in me every time I see somebody write "Se7en". I know it's written that way in the credits and blah blah but it's so annoying because the numeral 7 DOES NOT EVEN LOOK LIKE THE LETTER V. Unless it's a letter V that got PUNCHED IN ITS…

Second paragraph, first sentence
A Christmas Story should be A Christmas Carol.

I don't know that I'd call it immature. A lot of people feel the same way.

I have only one thing to say:
Kim. Motherfucking. Kelly.

Spock's first name
As a kid I went to one of the Trek conventions in New York…I can never remember exactly which year it was ('76? '77?), but it was the last time the entire original cast appeared together.

Was this written in Russian and then run through Babelfish?

PDX Smackdown
"'Doga runs the risk of trivializing yoga by turning a 2,500-year-old practice into a fad,' said Julie Lawrence, 60, a yoga instructor and studio owner in Portland, Ore. "

Obama and Bush
I consider Barack Obama to be an intelligent man.

The Series Finale of Battlestar Galactica Was Frakking Awesome
I haven't actually seen it yet, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to love it. However, I plan on avoiding the internets entirely tomorrow because I don't want to hear all the geeks complaining about how much it sucked, so I'm preemptively stating my opinion.

My party has pie.