Showin’ some Mort love.  It feels like forever since he’s had a line in the show - since the last time he was in the restaurant, I’ve “gained” a manager with the same hair and dye job and now I can’t unsee it.

I didn’t give it much thought until reading your comment, but that actually resonated more strongly with me because it was an unexpected resolution and somewhat realistic.  

Agreed on the grade and all your points, even though many years part-time in a similar shop working adjacent to keyboards had me rooting for Dino.  

I missed that!  My Korg W/01 is going to have words with me when I get home...

I can’t play drums, but I can at least read like Neil: http://www.neilpeart.net/index.php?cID=193

Hey Headline Writer - fix your spelling of “jeez/geez”. 

Neil Peart’s 10 best Rush songs ever from the CBC website.

Wasn’t it Mike Portnoy who said it?

Even as a complete non-drummer, I read and watched and listened to Neil’s instructional media and masterclasses and always found something useful.  One of the most influential and technically jaw-on-the-floor skilled drummers ever.

I am ceaselessly amazed at how many North Americans go for the shredded dried squid (until you tell them what it is, generally).

Late to the party but interior BC is on fire every year these days and has its own share of loud, proud rednecks.  At least you’ll have fewer neighbours in the Yukon (for now) and no yahoos getting drunk on the lakes in rented houseboats half the year.

If this were me and my brother, he’d sneak up on me while I was napping on the sofa and yell “GOTCHER PRESENT HERE” and then fart on my head.

I actually remember seeing this as a kid growing up in southern Alberta (probably on a US affiliate during Saturday morning cartoons?) and even back then, without the internet, “Cats” had permeated the collective consciousness and “Memory” was inescapable and all the theatre kids wanted to be Jellicle cats and would…

Every day is a good day to die with Amon Amarth.

Here, have some nightmare fuel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y32bRcJzL2w

There are few things that make me happier than seeing that IV has a less-than-rave review up.

I didn’t realize how much I missed “The Far Side” until the news of the Far Side site going live dropped a few weeks back, and I’ve been waiting with bated breath since. I’m actually excited about the prospect of new cartoons at some point.

Google quotes John Darnielle as saying:

I loved that shot of Donna with the choir because I have had years where my Christmas shopping was paid by “Messiah” gigs ad nauseam. (Also - I miss Marshmallow.  Where’s she been?)

I had a goofy grin on my face through pretty much the whole episode, but that made me chortle. And then Mike with the sax?  Full-on guffaw.  Also - speaking of Mike, spot-on with how the show handled him this episode.  That scene of him taking the call from Donna spoke volumes in a few seconds, even if it just…