John Popper's in santa fe, nm right now. He keeps showing up at little bars and playing sets. It's surreal. I had a friend with me who insisted it wasn't him because he was too skinny.

I always smurfed the smell of napalm in the morning.

I still have all my fingertips and only a few burn scars. but until you've got a rhythm and there's a flow, maybe a rushed flow but still a flow to everything moving in the kitchen, you can get injured real easy. Just about every tool you use in the kitchen is sharp or hot. Very few other jobs are you expected to…

And now the most SHOCKING twist ever
Just hearing the word shock used in the preview for a reality show or drama causes a Pavlovian cringe reaction.

much bigger buzzkill!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watc…

Now I'll have some balls to go with my burger king sandwich
Fast food seems to be rocking the phallic references now:

finally the imposter is dead
http://www.theonion.com/con…

For the folks in the mid thirties from Portland out there
"But what about frogs?"

A few more suggestions
Michael Chabon:
_Kavalier and Clay_ or the _Yiddish Police Man's Union._

The "present-day" end of things happens in and around Portland OR. There are specific references like the MAC club, a hotel I've been to, and a few other ones I forget. I haven't read the book in a long time, but I always thought that it mentioned that the present stuff was in Portland. But maybe being from there I…

Nicolas Cage was the first actor I thought of for a lifetime pass. But then the first two movies of him I saw were "Wild at Heart" and "Raising Arizona"

South Park guys are pretty funny and seem to tread the line between conservatism and libertarianism.

put him in the minor leagues
I would love to see Kenny play the Kevin Costner role to a bunch of minor league Tim Robbins.

Isn't there another sister
Isn't there a third child that refuses to participate?

@Fictional Strumpet, yeah even if Joseph had Mary locked up tight. I think god would have figured out a way around the chastity belt. He is all-powerful.

Second pass gold
SoundFont's new album "What you know is Wrong"

Prison Wine's Apartment: I supply the clown suit.

Nope El Zilcho wins. I was thinking Lode Runner. I just had the phrase "Logan's Run" in my head which I knew was not correct. Although the video game version of that would be awesome.

what was the original called
I used to play hours of a very similar game on the apple IIe(or an early pc) can't remember. What was it called? You had a character that had to dig tunnels downward that would slowly refill, and you tried to get gold and avoid critters and solve puzzles.

It actually had a fun sort of shaggy dog tone to it. It reminded me of an awkward it's always sunny in philli episode, where there's no build, a lot of weirdness and some very funny moments.