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If you are complaining about your neighborhood being gentrified, you were just an earlier step in the gentrification process.

She looked pretty cute in this episode.  I think she lost a few pounds.  I thought for a minute this was going to be the beginning of a "will they won't they" thing between her and Blake.

Odelay is head and shoulders above everything else in his catalog IMO.  I like Midnite Vultures but I would put Mutations and Mellow Gold ahead of it as well.

Not even close.

I guess it's technically not the 80s, but Billy Idol's "Cradle of Love" was very important to the sexual awakening of a young Ricin Beans.

I'm delighted to find that Hitchcock's speech is as stream of consciousness and loopy as his lyrics are

The ridiculous rapper is the first thing I thought of.  Harvey Birdman is the second.  I still haven't read the article.

Exactly.  She's supposed to have righteously owned the guy but she's completely wrong.  Not about her thesis (which I think she's actually right about, statistically) but about the substance of her argument.  The message I get is that women don't understand how evidence works and that they will tell you to shut up if

Also maps.  I can barely remember what life was like before I was carrying around a digital map all the time.

I'm a sexually active (such as it is) 35 year old and I kind of want one of those Nerf guns.

You would be really good at Homonym.

I tried to grow a beard.  The whole goatee/moustache area was very thick and lustrous, but the rest was really thin.  Since it's not the 90s, goatees aren't acceptable, and just wearing a moustache made me look like a child molester.

Yeah a lot of the weird spellings in modern english are the result of the unholy union of Anglo Saxon and Norman French.  Words like "knight" once had very logical pronunciations.

The one that sends me into a (usually silent) rant is the one where the woman says "so you think men are better drivers, well how come I got this discount for being a good driver".  It's supposed to be a standard "woman smart/man dumb" premise but it shows the woman being an idiot.

A watch that tells you the time?  Game changer.

As I'm sure many, many people have pointed out, the "I'm a Mac/PC" ads backfired because John Hodgman is much cooler than Justin Long could ever hope to be.

Good comparison, although in the opposite direction.  Kind of like how nobody over the age of 14 ever read Seventeen.

I find her strangely attractive.  I have yet to find someone who agrees with me on that.

The "waiting in line" ads were weird.  Apparently the iPhone is for hipsters (and their parents), but the s3 is for really smug hipsters.

Here's a list I put together for someone else.  Heavy on character background and mythology, (although some, like Sons of Mars, are just standout episodes) should clock in at about 5 hours.  I made it close to the beginning of this season so it leaves out anything that played since January.