@Vervack:disqus  Right - TNG/DS9-era Klingons are basically feudal lords in space. This doesn't make sense if you think about it for more than five minutes (how the hell does a feudal society maintain itself past the development of industrial manufacture, much less interstellar flight?), but so little of Trek does…

@Vervack:disqus  Right - TNG/DS9-era Klingons are basically feudal lords in space. This doesn't make sense if you think about it for more than five minutes (how the hell does a feudal society maintain itself past the development of industrial manufacture, much less interstellar flight?), but so little of Trek does…

I admit I laughed at the David Foster Wallace tweets. The stuff about DFW's forced Midwestern faux-sincerity was pretty spot on.

I admit I laughed at the David Foster Wallace tweets. The stuff about DFW's forced Midwestern faux-sincerity was pretty spot on.

I'm sure Dylan will be just as genial and accepting when I swipe the lyrics from "It's A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall" for my musical masterpiece. "There's a long history of quotation in folk and jazz," I'll tell him, "and besides, who's heard of you?"

I'm sure Dylan will be just as genial and accepting when I swipe the lyrics from "It's A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall" for my musical masterpiece. "There's a long history of quotation in folk and jazz," I'll tell him, "and besides, who's heard of you?"

Dylan:  …and Henry Timrod, 'cause Dylan stole his shit. But fuck him, he's dead!

Dylan:  …and Henry Timrod, 'cause Dylan stole his shit. But fuck him, he's dead!

Is "Judas" really the most hated name in human history? What about "pigfucker" or "shithead"?

Is "Judas" really the most hated name in human history? What about "pigfucker" or "shithead"?

But think of how many different kinds of hipsters he can play! Hipsters with soul patches, hipsters with wigs, hipsters with those big earrings that look like holes in your ear… the list is endless!

But think of how many different kinds of hipsters he can play! Hipsters with soul patches, hipsters with wigs, hipsters with those big earrings that look like holes in your ear… the list is endless!

…I kinda liked Zwan. It was fun.

…I kinda liked Zwan. It was fun.

I only have light vegan pastries from THE PLANET ZEIST - proggiest sphere of all spheres!

I only have light vegan pastries from THE PLANET ZEIST - proggiest sphere of all spheres!

I'm kind of baffled by how the ubiquitousness of Facebook and Twitter has suddenly deluged the internet with what looks, to my eyes, like broken-down obsolete shit-tech. Like, it's nice that those kids sure are into tossing URL shorteners everywhere, but back in my day we had these miraculous things called…

I'm kind of baffled by how the ubiquitousness of Facebook and Twitter has suddenly deluged the internet with what looks, to my eyes, like broken-down obsolete shit-tech. Like, it's nice that those kids sure are into tossing URL shorteners everywhere, but back in my day we had these miraculous things called…

I think Hader could've done an amazing, weird, batshit Romney if they'd let him - a variation of that so-normal-something's-deeply-wrong-with-them character he does, Romney as the 1950s game show host from hell. But the show's political sensibilities have been so fucking timid for so long that anything other than a…

I think Hader could've done an amazing, weird, batshit Romney if they'd let him - a variation of that so-normal-something's-deeply-wrong-with-them character he does, Romney as the 1950s game show host from hell. But the show's political sensibilities have been so fucking timid for so long that anything other than a…