It's a great concept, but damn do you ever look exactly like the guy in that photo. Did you just realize that one day when you were trying to come up with a costume, or was it more like the ending of The Shining?

@PaulKinsey:disqus wins for the most ridiculous fake name: "Ed Kowalczyk."

I always used to hate that song and "Save Tonight" by Eagle Eye Cherry for the reason that they're both four chords, over and over, and never change or get interesting. But you're right, I had forgotten how lazy and terrible "Fly Away" is, so I think that one gets the edge.

Man, lots of RHCP hate in here. I always thought they were one of those bands (and I'm talking the '90s-current RHCP here) that was neither great nor terrible. I use them as the prime example of the kind of band that you can't passionately love or passionately hate, like Coldplay or maybe 2000-current era Foo…

I literally logged in just to say, "Fuck yeah, Torchy's Tacos." Glad I'm not alone.

Up made everybody cry during the prologue. That sequence is going to be how we'll be able to sort the humans from the replicants.

My mother-in-law is a HUGE Taylor Swift fan, to the extent that she refers to her as "our Taylor." I was prepared to tolerate this facet of her personality on a trip we all took to Nashville last year, but I was actually impressed by what she played of TS's last album. It's pop, but it's pretty high-quality pop these…

Shoot, I shot my comment wad too early. Austin is my favorite city in the US and I miss it every day. I didn't even think the traffic was all that bad, but then I never took I-35 anywhere.

As I had to point out to my relatives on many an occasion, Austin != Texas. I mean, Rick Perry lives there, but only because he has to. It's all the good and very little of the bad of Texas as far as I can tell.

I laughed more reading this than I did watching the whole SNL episode this week.

Particularly because it's the basically the same exact song as "The World Has Turned And Left Me Here," but with terrible lyrics and melody. Seriously, play them both back to back.

I just wanted to say that my eyes went straight to the phrase that I read as "Anything Goes in Poundland!" which I am now engraving on the door to my bedroom.

That's not embarrassing at all. OK Computer is usually #1 on my short list of best albums of the 90's. What's embarrassing is how many times I played the Postal Service album thinking about how much it spoke to me through college.

That song is an atomic bomb of sad. Like, "He Stopped Loving Her Today" might've made me sniffle once, but "Casimir Pulaski Day" has made me weep openly. Particularly during my religious, truth-seeking phase. Iron and Wine's "The Trapeze Swinger" also tends to vibrate that same string but in a different way.

@avclub-ea407c6c8898c300a60b1f84d8f15d80:disqus , you win, but I was still pretty shocked to see a Stars and Bars-painted mailbox with matching flag on a house in Toledo, OH. And I grew up in the Deep Deep South, so I'm used to seeing Confederate flags on houses. 
Although the two (two!) GIANT Confederate flags I saw…

I'd give it to New Hampshire for the Porcupine Festival alone, which is a celebration of the kind of thinking that gets you to "Obama using black helicopters to count our guns so he can bring about the New World Order." Also, most of my daily interactions with people in NH seem to bear that out.

Was it near Hanover? Because I swear I've seen that same truck.

I stand corrected. My fiancee is in pediatrics, so while she can and does test adults, she doesn't really get referrals from geriatrics so I think her observation was probably based on the fact that you can't confirm the diagnosis ante mortem. Given that insurance companies often require a diagnosis for payment (even…

My fiancee is a neuropsychologist, so that was her observation. Probably what would happen, as best as I can tell, is that a doctor might diagnose dementia and/or possible or probable Alzheimer's. Given that Alzheimer's is the most prevalent type of dementia, my fiancee may have being a bit pedantic.

Regardless of Rabin's thoughts on The Simpsons as Great Art, the line I quoted is still the kind of thing I wish I had been able to come up with during my brief stint as a music critic in college. It may have made Limp Bizkit's Results May Vary (the one with "Behind Blue Eyes") something I could listen to and then…