When I would make mixtapes of songs from the radio I thought I was being super clever by recording clips from The Simpsons between the songs.

I was listening to Marc Maron's interview with Thom Yorke yesterday and I forgot to skip over the intro, where he went into a long diatribe about "vinyl is real, man, it's like human, man, a real machine making real music!" There was no eye-roll big enough in the world (and I say that as someone who enjoys listening…

@avclub-641e167f974d1dd076c0886d17271975:disqus  The category-theoretic dual to an associative unital algebra. Fuck all if I remember anything beyond that.

Roll Fizzlebeef.

Big McLargehuge (are we doing this?)

Oooh, what's this thing wrapped in a banana leaf? Smells like mint.

Re: Louis CK. All I meant is that his bit on hecklers turned into a kind of comedy manifesto taken on by the growing comedy-geek community on the internet. For sure it didn't start with him, but his popularity/ubiquitousness turned it into a cause for internet comedy people to rally around. And that's where the whole…

Mr. Show thread, anyone?

I concur.

That poor, poor woman.

The whole episode "2D-Blacktop" was one big topology riff, but there was one subtle part I really loved.

Ed: posted in wrong place.

HEH HEH.

ACCEPTABLE ANSWER.

I blame Louis CK.

I only barely know what those words mean but I love it when you talk like that.

I'd go with Mike D.

This reminded me of my favorite thing from introduction to thermal physics: the two definitions of "temperature".

"Best band of the 90s?" Honestly, I'd rather read earnest, hyperbolic reviews of bands I'd never heard of than another article about Nirvana or REM.

Okay, that Tool review was hilarious (I used to be a big Tool fan, but still). I'm typically cynical about music critics and criticism, so it's still amusing to see someone having fun with conventions even if i disagree with their opinions. Because seriously, music critics are the worst.