Yeah, $395 bought me a poorly ventilated attic above a drug dealer, and not the "ha ha" kind of drug dealer. I'm so happy I was out of town when he eventually got raided.

Oh my god, a Landover Baptist fan! I thought it was just me!

Man, the one time you want something to ooze.

My first apartment cost $395 a month, and I'm in my 30s. Regional cost of living differences are a hell of a thing.

GLC must live on!

Fair enough, Mr. Panaflex

God *something* him, anyway.

There is a joke in here about racism being the rock n roll dinosaur that just won't stop touring.

That guy in the background looks like he is stalking it like a tubby jungle cat.

I used to work at my college convenience store, and was unreasonably frustrated at people who wanted bags for single items that were already easy to carry. I eventually taped a sign to the counter that said "bags will no longer be given for the following items: chips. They already come in a bag." My boss made me…

I'd watch that. We already subsidize depressing shit, might as well set it to music.

Sometimes I think merchants try to imbue value in something like this just by making it cost more than an older, better product. "The Hobbit on Blu Ray? You must be quite a man of means, sir, how classy."

Bristol is so named because Sarah wanted to work in Bristol, CT for ESPN, but got pregnant instead. This is the closest I can find to anyone in the real world being named Haley Dream-smasher Smith. Sarah literally named her daughter after her dream deferred.

Oh, yeah, someone is definitely going to die up there. What is their contingency for hauling several-score pounds of dead astronaut? How are we set for Spock coffins?

Oh yeah? Thanks for the heads up. I recently discovered an author named Stanislaw Lem and am all about skeptical, downer sci fi. The three books I have read by him (Solaris, His Master's Voice and Fiasco) are all about a failure to make contact with aliens.

Exactly! I'm not trying to be a downer, I just want to hear more about how we are going to solve these problems, and less about CG renderings of cool, futuristic Mars bases.

I saw an article in the LA Times my ad blocker wouldn't let me read about how the press is ignoring all of the significant hurdles left before we can go to Mars, because that stuff isn't exciting.

But no doubt gets results (you stupid Chief).

More of a 6 man, myself.

Thanks, man, I appreciate it.