> If you were okay with text-based interfaces, in some ways it was friendlier than it is today.

Where is Heller? Gone elsewhere? I'm missing his Newswire band clips.

The governor's name is taken from a notorious European vaudeville performer.

The abominable gray-on-gray style (sadly far from extinct) is actually related to the sans-serif thing. More terrible stuff to blame on 90s Microsoft. Crap faces and no anti-aliasing meant your Windows ME running at 800x600 was hell to read no matter what. Going sans cleaned up the page a bit, and gray-on-gray is a…

Indeed.

Gah, I always miss these. I just read Neil Gaiman's American Gods and Anansi Boys — I hadn't read anything of his til quite recently — and enjoyed both. I think I prefer Anansi for its tighter, plottier storytelling but Gods was full of great scenes and set-pieces. In a few minutes I'm going to start The Thousand…

Ja Rule mean shit to me

Perhaps he was dictating.

Seriously, "ruled the early 90s"? I was then, and I have only the vaguest recollection of these guys and barely more of Rocket from the Crypt, though I did buy a Rocket cd at some point — I can only recall it for being forgettable.

I just wish I could give some stance as well.

WHAAAOGHOUOUGhunaccustomed as I am to opening these proceedings, may I say that it is a very great honour indeed.

Version at http://youtu.be/1fnm7LVB3mY

Round about… oh, ten years ago or so, there were a few classic Hicks bits that sounded brand-fucking-new. Likewise a few old Ministry albums.

Bullshit — you're a white suburban punk just like me.

"They’re both working in the parameters of an absurd reality, albeit a reality with very strict rules."

No it isn't.

Which, it occurs to me, also sounds like one of IdiotKing's adventures.

It's French fries — the San Diego version of the chip butty.

Love is a FIRST!

This seems like the right place to tell the story of how I just won Cards Against Humanity. For all time.