Cue the inevitable "joint ICE, DEA, U.S. Marshals and Broward County Sheriffs sting nails 50 hipsters loaded down with drugs, about to board the Coachella cruise" stories.

I'm still waiting for the FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS spin-off featuring Riggins and Street based on that episode where they travel to NYC. Episodic excursions to Brooklyn, drop-ins by FNL characters, Street and Riggins getting down on their luck and turning into Ratso Rizzo and Joe from MIDNIGHT COWBOY … the possibilities…

I'm still waiting for the FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS spin-off featuring Riggins and Street based on that episode where they travel to NYC. Episodic excursions to Brooklyn, drop-ins by FNL characters, Street and Riggins getting down on their luck and turning into Ratso Rizzo and Joe from MIDNIGHT COWBOY … the possibilities…

There's part of me that hopes this happens just so I can call DirecTV customer service and threaten to cancel my service because TEEN MOM has been taken away.

There's part of me that hopes this happens just so I can call DirecTV customer service and threaten to cancel my service because TEEN MOM has been taken away.

Already covered in Hyden's "Whatever Happened to Alternative Nation" series.

Already covered in Hyden's "Whatever Happened to Alternative Nation" series.

All of those bands could only have existed in the era that they did, because they were all capable of putting together one barely passable single/video that convinced a decent amount of kids to drop $18 on their album.  Prior to the '90s, people would have just bought the single, and in the MP3 era, everyone would…

All of those bands could only have existed in the era that they did, because they were all capable of putting together one barely passable single/video that convinced a decent amount of kids to drop $18 on their album.  Prior to the '90s, people would have just bought the single, and in the MP3 era, everyone would…

OK, I see what you're saying. I guess my main point was that seeing lyrics like "He sewed his eyes shut/because he is afraid to see/he tries to tell me/what I put inside of me" isolated in that context is a reminder that they are a bit overwrought and silly.

OK, I see what you're saying. I guess my main point was that seeing lyrics like "He sewed his eyes shut/because he is afraid to see/he tries to tell me/what I put inside of me" isolated in that context is a reminder that they are a bit overwrought and silly.

No, I'm saying that the Facebook contact adds the lyrics as sort of his own "f religion"/"religious people are stupid" commentary to the article he's linking to.  Which is not particularly necessary.

No, I'm saying that the Facebook contact adds the lyrics as sort of his own "f religion"/"religious people are stupid" commentary to the article he's linking to.  Which is not particularly necessary.

The interesting thing to me about PHM was how long it hung around as a kind of alt rock touchstone.  It was released in '89 but was still getting airplay and getting discovered by kids all the way up until The Downward Spiral came out in '94 and made Reznor a superstar.

The interesting thing to me about PHM was how long it hung around as a kind of alt rock touchstone.  It was released in '89 but was still getting airplay and getting discovered by kids all the way up until The Downward Spiral came out in '94 and made Reznor a superstar.

A Facebook contact ocasionally apends links to articles about religious extremists with early NIN lyrics and I always think, "you know, I'm guessing Trent's probably a little embarassed by those at this point."

A Facebook contact ocasionally apends links to articles about religious extremists with early NIN lyrics and I always think, "you know, I'm guessing Trent's probably a little embarassed by those at this point."

Pretty much anything Ricky Gervais has done in the last five years. That critique of religion in THE INVENTION OF LYING just turned my life upside down, man. I'd never really considered that people fear death and might come up with explanations about what comes after death in order to provide them false comfort. …

Pretty much anything Ricky Gervais has done in the last five years. That critique of religion in THE INVENTION OF LYING just turned my life upside down, man. I'd never really considered that people fear death and might come up with explanations about what comes after death in order to provide them false comfort. …

Relatively cheap to produce, daily content, an audience that a particular type of advertiser wants to and knows it can reach, generally not DVR'ed ..