I know nothing's gonna be alright again… I've got a feeling, yeah yeah yeah!

Oh, Cliff/do you ever feel as if/you really are a cliff, Cliff?

I'm sure he's lovely, and basically playing a 'character' who is way too enthusiastic about McRibs. I am also playing a 'character' who is a bored person being snarky on the Internet. Regards to Michael!

His wife's too cute to have to put up with this fucking guy.

I guess I should clarify that I didn't mean the ENTIRE WORLD, but my kids' own corner of it. Even the most apathetic person has SOME impact on the people around him/her.

Sorry, but a dog is not the same as a child. I know the dog-people hate when the kid-people say that, but I've been on both sides of the fence. While a pet can inspire a lot of love and can inspire complex emotional attachment, you're not responsible for making sure that a dog grows up and becomes a self-sufficient,…

That makes total sense. I think about the evolution of my musical tastes, starting out with old rock n' roll records as a kid, moving to top 40, then discovering metal, then punk, indie rock, then noise, and so on. My intention has been to find the most interesting things, so I can see how it's very dependent on…

No, I have not… how did I miss this? Is the guy holding the barbecue sign wearing a trout mask replica?

Ha! Go away, beach dog!

That reminds me of why my imaginary friend went away for good… why did I have to be so aggressive?

I'm 6'3" too! But I just tie the tie so the back part is short. Of course, then it doesn't tuck into the little band, so sometimes I use tape to hold it in place. Luckily, ties are not as necessary as they used to be.

Somehow it seems appropriate that they watched it in summer school, when some kind of schooling should have been happening…

Nice! Sort of existentialist protest music… I guess it hinges on the supposition that 'normal' music and performance is somehow supporting of ontological certitude, that it somehow affirms narrative meaning in our lives, though. That's a whole other paper, and a tough one to prove. Man, I kind of miss school. I was so…

I hate/love to be the guy too, but yeah, 'scores of prose' kind of jumped out. I don't know if I'm getting pickier over time, but does it seem like the copy editing is going through a transition or something? I've been noticing a lot of things… not necessarily just typos, but like artifacts in sentences from previous…

Plays Pretty for Baby is… hard to describe to people. I had to listen to it several times just to get a good feel for where the song breaks were. It sounds like it was recorded in a basement where dangerous things might be happening. It's one of my all-time favorite albums.

I wish I could give you a couple more upvotes for writing a paper on BHS. What was the thesis, just out of curiosity?

I hope they make that BHS movie, and I kind of hope they don't… capturing the right flavor would be very difficult.

It reminds me of something I read about Brian Wilson and Pet Sounds. The gist was that Wilson did something his contemporaries couldn't contemplate, much less forgive: he embraced elements of 'dinner music' in his songs. I think the Doors had the same 'whatever, fuck it' kind of eclecticism. Of course it didn't always…

Carson has already become the Palin of this election for me. At a certain point, I couldn't stand looking at her face, when she was on TV I felt immediately embarrassed. I could sometimes listen, but not actually look at her talk. I feel that way about this guy. I get a physical reaction… I think it comes from the way…

I remember when I inuited an Inuit and her mom. There was a lot of… pulsating. Sweet, animated pulsating.