This is a thing I think about sometimes — and as I recall Stephen King wrote about that in the going-back-in-time story — that packaged foods extant from our childhood don’t (and can’t) taste the way they did when we were kids. Not that it’s something I can prove. But what a bowl of Corn Pops, or a Snickers bar, or a…

Say what you will about Coldplay but Chris Martin seems to have a decent sense of humour.

There seemed to be a lot of references to the first episode. The girl that walked towards Rick at the end of the scene at the gas station resembled the girl he shot in the opening scene, and Rick’s ‘vision’ of the future was shot the same way as the scene where he first wakes up in the hospital (flowers and all).

i had just watched Eps 1, Seas 1 earlier today- you are 100% correct, man. i wouldn’t have noticed if I had not seen the episode 4 hrs earlier, but, yeah.

I guess the scene where Carl looks for gas was meant to be a mirror of the first scene of the show, even down to recreating the shot where Rick/Carl places his hat on the ground and lays down to look under a car.

I’ve been working with Cecilia on this story since Thursday, when I warned her that things would likely blow up over the weekend and that she might have to work Saturday and Sunday. Which she of course agreed to do immediately, because she is a trooper. Her hard work is the reason that this story is more thorough than…

Alternative headline: Stinker Trailer Snowman Why?

I put this in the WOT and got no official response, so I’ll put it here too.

Goths is great. Try to catch them live, and you’ll have a new appreciation for those songs.

IMHO, Mike Judge is - and will continue to be - the king of the pop-culture hill. At least that’s what this illustrated timeline I’ve been reading told me.

But there are no more toys at Toys R’ Us for you to play with.

Or the fact that, as BoyRD beat me to the punch in observing, this was done smarter, funnier, and less obnoxiously, on McSweeney’s almost fifteen years ago.

A leading figure in the gay rights movement in the ‘60s, Johnson was found dead in the Hudson River in 1992, but there was no investigation because the police ruled it a suicide she was a black trans woman so naturally the cops didn’t give a shit.

Proud to make this my first Kinja upvote - or whatever we’re calling them now.

All you commenters here are a bunch of pimply faced nerds.

“Which beloved comedian likes to force female comics to watch him jerk off? If you guessed Doug Stanhope, you’re wrong... he was never beloved!”

Sorry you can’t make it! We’ll be thinking of you as we explode.

They see me Gawkin’

Xanderpuss’s opinion also make Kinja worse!

I only own the DLR VH albums