@avclub-022199896b1f52952c180b60caa681bd:disqus we still pin felt poppies to our coats in Canada every November.

"Good luck, everyone."

Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Not his books, but rather anything about the man himself. I've even avoided his autobiography, although I hear it's deliberately self-mythologizing. I need to have some heroes who remain a mystery to me; I don't want to know all the little details of their personal history, their failings,…

A friend of mine found a copy of the Brian Herbert sequel someone had abandoned at the airport and gave it to me. I quit reading a couple of chapters in, when two evil robots had an evil conversation with each other about how evil they were.

I don't even own a technology!

You're pretty much neck deep in that fanbase right now.

I just don't want to ruin my memories of the ride.

Is he played by John Cleese? Because I'd watch that.

@avclub-792b765aa995daf26cf6f17f519c949d:disqus don't know if it belongs, but I like that you included Discworld.

So I'm guessing Thomas Ford Brown became Sluggo.

Lord of the Rings is pop culture (this is in no way a criticism of the book). Ulysses is deliberately less than accessible.

Let's start right now!

Navigator's Log: after many a trepidacious neologism 'pon the atavistic Sea of Decadence, we have at long last come within sight of the fabled Isle of Pedantry.

In a similar vein to the Canada jokes in The Limited, isn't the Canadian government always portrayed (somewhat-tongue-in-cheekly) as a shadowy locus of evil in Marvel comics? Not too familiar with comic book history but they always seem to be producing things like Deadpool and Wolverine in secret labs labouring for…

Oh. Now I get it!

Al Gore? George Bush? What's the difference? Why should I even vote at all?

All glory is fleeting.

It's amazing how critical and cultural opinion can shift with the generations, isn't it? Now that we're the ones defining greatness, the criteria's changed. Generation X nostalgia is beginning to overtake Boomer nostalgia. To my dad the Simpsons is worth a chuckle, but hardly an embodiment of greatness. It captured a…

If we can take the collected episodes of The Simpsons as a whole, we should be able to do the same with The Beatles' discography. I know that's an obvious choice, but we're talking about pop-culture. It's obvious for a reason.

I know right?