No, but I made myself laugh, and that's what counts, right?

Rubicon :(

Good call on Moral Orel.

I'm partial to a lot of the planets that Watterson creates in any of his Spaceman Spiff Calvin and Hobbes strips, though no one particularly stands out above the rest (as in, they're all excellent.)

Get out of my head, man.

If "him" refers to the person who came up with that title, then yes please.

This fantasy league thing we've got going on means that I'm actually interested in a football game for literally the first time in my life. It's a weird feeling.

2 and 5 agreeabuddies!

1. Capturing the Friedmans

Tangerinelly? Tangerinelly?

I saw a ruby playing with a child the size of a tangerine…

so apparently it's impossible to find a gif of Homer shuddering; have this instead

For the longest time, I thought the word "tangentially" was "tangenitally".

I've had a couple of twins— Pizza Dog, The Eyes, and I want to say there was one more, but I can't remember what now.

"I've given up on Justified for a while now"

Haha yeah I get that. Heartbreaker is the only album of his I like.

re: alt-country, have you heard Ryan Adams' Heartbreaker?

And Pixies!

I think he's just saying that a show having "ambition" doesn't automatically earn it points in his book.

Yeah, I know, that's exactly why I hate the term! But I'm not really sure how else to refer to Wilco, The National, Spoon, et al under a genre banner except as "indie". I suppose "rock", but that's even more broad and also brings in a bunch of things that I don't really listen to.