There's a reason that religions use song and dance and wine and incense. Mystery cults used drugs and sensory deprivation. Ascetics use hairshirts and hunger and thirst. It all eventually comes down to the ecstatic experience, even when the nature of the sect is devoted to rejecting ecstasy (*cough* Southern Baptists…

Honest question: why do so many of you watch a show you really seem to hate? I've never seen it, so that's not where I'm going here. I just don't understand.

"Fred took me places you never could. Like P.F. Chang's. You should see this man waste food. You could never waste food like Freddy D. I'm leaving you!"

points off for "cranium" though.

The first Shellac songs I really got into were "Wingwalker" and "Il Porno Star" back when the main source I had of music was whatever random stuff I could coax off filesharing networks. And I came to them from Big Black, too. So I guess I was predisposed to like the harsh, metronomic stuff like on Terraform.

Me too!

shoefucking.

In S1, she uses a computer that isn't even on and doesn't realize it. Also, she tries to take an online pregnancy test.

It might be a little odd to have a crush on Archer, though.

I thought it was a guy who climbs around like a monkey and kills hundreds of people in order to obtain treasure but is still somehow supposed to be a hero.

Ninjas showing up in a Western RPG setting is as ancient as CRPGs, though, as anyone whose Wizardry party has been wiped by a Master Ninja can attest.

With that sound setup, you can hear every little strangulated gasp and gurgle on his extensive hi-fi recordings of all those transients he's chainsawed up.

Is this the same guy who wrote all those hilarious screeds about, what, Sarah Vowell? Like we should know who he is or care what he thinks? Or was that some other pretentious asshole.

@avclub-9f3362679d786df531bab7953d7ab610:disqus It's also funny that they still use him for a one-off  (in "Chimera") well after Martok became a significant character.

Dorn has impeccable comic timing for a dramatic actor. He also has arguably the best voice in a franchise full of actors with amazing voices. I love that little growl he can add to even the quietest, most carefully enunciated sentence. He does comic relief and action and personal drama equally well.

Didn't you date an actress at one point?

I generally assume every woman in Portland is a lesbian until I have reason to believe otherwise. Has worked out well so far.

Well, and a lot of Eddie Vedder impersonations by vocalists. Take a Bush instrument track and have someone do a bad Eddie Vedder impersonation over it and you've got Nickleback.

Silverchair didn't really sound like Nirvana, as I remember it. They just had a singer with long blond hair.

Lugosi.