Oh, they do. His name is Thomas Golubić. He's done some great work. http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

Uh, people are using "mansion" in a semi-ironic way, I think. I find it strange that you find that strange. To me, and to many of us, a "contemporary open concept house" IS a mansion, sort of. We've never lived anywhere like that. It speaks to a level of affluence we can't even really imagine achieving, while not…

Chris R said it already. We don't need the kid stuff.

Please do not mention Bright Eyes in the same paragraph as the Mountain Goats. That is all.

Yeah; it's practically a tribute record. Of course Buck plays on it. On "Calamity Song," he practically plagiarizes himself. I actually heard "Gardening at Night" in a bar recently (!) and for a moment I thought it was the Decemberists. Then I hated myself.

I was actually at a baseball game. When they brought out this sketchy-looking guy with a beard and sandals to throw out the first pitch, I got a bit worried. But nothing happened.

I am SO fraked this morning.

…and when you think about it, "F" is kind of a silly first name.

My god. I failed spectacularly, with a pedantic speech thrown in. I totally missed the "flauting" pun. Shame consumes me.

Blast! Venting plasma through the main deflector grid! Core breach imminent! All hands abandon shi—

I counter your tachyon pulse with a subspace chroniton anomaly! Let's see you talk your way out of that!

Meh. X-Files was pretty fun, for a while. It helped to be really high. (It was the nineties.) But I tired of it pretty quickly once it became clear that they had no idea where to go with their "mythology."

Yes! That's a great one! The painting leaves Data no choice but to exterminate the crew! It seemed best.

Yeah, I don't think it was a play on words. I think they misspelled "flaunting." When the word they wanted was "flouting," anyway. This is near-universal in American English, these days. You see "flaunting the rules" all the time; people have mostly forgotten the word "flout." I'm not the sort who gets terribly upset…

Nice work, Peel! Drinks are on you! (Don't tell Frakes!)

Somewhere there is a crime happening.

Ah! Yeah, you're right. I had entirely forgotten that. And I don't remember what I thought when I first saw "Preemptive Strike." I'm pretty sure I watched it when it was first broadcast, and I know I hadn't watched DS9. I must have been a little confused, too. I guess I just put it together from context.

Well, that scene doesn't even correctly right here in the States, thirty years later. Lynch had no way of knowing that a mediocre blue-collar beer like PBR was going to become a hipster staple. I mean, I drink the stuff all the damned time. Drafts are a dollar at my bar during happy hour. A DOLLAR!!

Oh, but it gets better, Richilieu's Girlfriend! It gets better! Come back!!

…yes, but "Darmok" worked on a MYTHIC level, not a logical one.