"But you'll never forget it."
 
(IMHO, Stephenson crossed the line from stupid to clever with that line.)

Bill Hicks was a visionary.   Tim and Eric are still striving to be as not funny as Hicks was, but no matter how not funny they are, they can't reach his level of not funniness.

Bill Hicks was a visionary.   Tim and Eric are still striving to be as not funny as Hicks was, but no matter how not funny they are, they can't reach his level of not funniness.

I remember a traffic jam science fiction story that still creeps me out today.   (Google reports that it is "The Great Moveway Jam" by John Keefauver, published March 1979 in Omni).   It's up there with The Small Assassin and Survivor Type as "stories that dug into J Mann's psyche as an impressionable youth and have…

I remember a traffic jam science fiction story that still creeps me out today.   (Google reports that it is "The Great Moveway Jam" by John Keefauver, published March 1979 in Omni).   It's up there with The Small Assassin and Survivor Type as "stories that dug into J Mann's psyche as an impressionable youth and have…

How does the budget and ratings compare to, say, Caprica?

How does the budget and ratings compare to, say, Caprica?

I can take or leave Warehouse 13, but the running joke where they explain everything as "he ate bad mushrooms" gets funnier every week.

I can take or leave Warehouse 13, but the running joke where they explain everything as "he ate bad mushrooms" gets funnier every week.

All I know about ICP is that they inspired the best beef line I've ever heard.

All I know about ICP is that they inspired the best beef line I've ever heard.

For about 3/4 of the show, I was guessing the Tommy twist would be that he was a counter-alpha working for the other side and disinhibiting Nina, rather than the real Tommy.   (Too much Dark Phoenix resonance, I guess).   The actual twist was much better, and Tommy confronting Nina in the hospital room was great.

For about 3/4 of the show, I was guessing the Tommy twist would be that he was a counter-alpha working for the other side and disinhibiting Nina, rather than the real Tommy.   (Too much Dark Phoenix resonance, I guess).   The actual twist was much better, and Tommy confronting Nina in the hospital room was great.

It's more fun to imagine that as a Loki, Ryan feeds on humans by f-ing with them.   (As opposed to Bo, who feeds on them by f-ing them.  Badabing!)

It's more fun to imagine that as a Loki, Ryan feeds on humans by f-ing with them.   (As opposed to Bo, who feeds on them by f-ing them.  Badabing!)

Appropriating cultures is one way we grow.   What do I care if a bunch of fangirls someplace want to call themselves otaku or if Rick Bayless wants to cook Mexican cuisine or if some dude really likes sushi?   Hell, at some level we all appropriate our native culture as well.

Appropriating cultures is one way we grow.   What do I care if a bunch of fangirls someplace want to call themselves otaku or if Rick Bayless wants to cook Mexican cuisine or if some dude really likes sushi?   Hell, at some level we all appropriate our native culture as well.

That would be the most disturbing Fruit of the Loom commercial ever.

That would be the most disturbing Fruit of the Loom commercial ever.

As opposed to real life, in which the Occupy movement resulted in . . .