They should never have done those shows. I remember me and a friend being so excited to check them out, and then looking at each other with sadness. It was exactly what Chapelle was railing against, a quick buck with leftovers.

While art is whatever you think it is, minimalism is older than your grandpa. Marcel Duchamp's Fountain was done in 1917. Some of my favorite artists are Dadaists, George Grosz is very overlooked, and Otto Dix's stuff is wild.

Don't give me any of your cockadoodie ideas, Mr. Man!

Watch the few shows that were produced after Chapelle quit, and tell me that again. It really sucked without Chapelle. Charlie Murphy is like Jim Belushi, except less funny.

One million likes for that Angelou interview. "If you're not angry, you're either a stone, or you're too sick to be angry". One of the best lines I've heard in the past 20 years.

That's not even the best in the Bay Area, which is at Tacos El Gordo, a truck that parks at 42nd and International in Oakland after 5:30 on weekdays, and noon or so on weekends. There are some great burritos in the Inland Empire - my favorite there is El Taquito on Mount Vernon in Colton, but a lot of friends swear by…

That story in Nightmare of Ecstasy is classic, where (forgot now) claims that you could push in her skin and it wouldn't push back, because of the lack of fluids. IIRC she said it was "slimming".

Spain and Portugal split South American in two, which is why Brazilians speak Portuguese and not Spanish. So yeah, not all the bad imperialism came from us, just a lot of it.

They sold out, man! This guy is like the reincarnation of Tim Yohannon, the editor of Maximum Rock n Roll. I remember that, living up here in the Bay Area, how much he hated Green Day because they were signed to a major label.

One of my favorite characters in any movie gives the lie to the "all male" thing, even though she was a bit player - the unforgettable Juliet Landau as Loretta king: No. No water. No liquids! I'm very allergic to them!

Culturally, it's already like that. Oh! -takes a big drag of cigarette, doesn't inhale any of the smoke, shoots the cuffs of his studded leather jacket-

That must be weird, kind of like working for a high-tech company that was around during the days of IBM System 360s, Fortran, and punched cards. This game show was around when Match Game and The Joker's Wild was on. On the one hand, that's staying power, on the other hand, it's seriously weird to have a game show on…

lileks.com is one of my go-to time wasters at work. I have laughed out loud at work before reading his stuff. I have a couple of his books also.

But I have LifeAlert! Oh crap it fell in the bathtub.

Those walk-in bathtubs are the best. I bet those don't leak at all after a few years.

Having a day job /= having a band that sucks. I can't believe I am defending Tesco Vee! I'm talking about other bands too.

I hate people like that!

We agree on that, for sure! My irony alarm is set to off, most ot the time.

I'm not sure if I agree with your musical interpretation 100% there. I would posit that the people posting and reading here are the ones who went to said party, looked at each other with a sad, fearful look, said "Jesus baldheaded Christ let's get out of here!", smoked a joint/shared a bottle/etc., and listened to…

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