My favorite teriyaki place in Seattle was I Heart/Love Bento (I was never sure of the exact name, since they used the heart symbol in their sight), located in an unassuming building just up the street from my house in Bryant, near UW. I can still imitate the guy who answered the phone recalling my "spicy chickennnn"…

I unabashedly love this CD to this day. As a hardcore rap fan who only dabbled a bit in rock when this came out, it was a good introduction to bands (aside from Pearl Jam) that I had never really listened to. "Real Thing" remains one of my favorite songs ("Keep me a taser/up in the Blazer/And a black 9/By my…

I was in college in 1995, with limited access to TV, but for some reason, my roommate and I thought the notion of the WB was hilarious, especially the show "Muscle." I don't think I ever got to see an episode before it got canceled, but we would just walk around saying "Muscle" at random times. The lesson remains,…

This is what I wanted to know. I feel like there *must* be pressure to buy vowels, because why else would people waste money on "E" when the puzzle reads "TH_"?

Maybe it's because I didn't get into Oasis until the "Be Here Now" period, but I really love their later albums. "Don't Believe the Truth" would be in the No. 2 slot for me, and "Heathen Chemistry" really has some great songs on it, even if the Gallagher's always slagged it off.

Yeah, Sega Master System was essentially crushed by Nintendo's third-party licensing agreements despite being the better system. Of course, that didn't matter much to all my friends, who had Nintendo and joyfully traded games with each other, while I played my SMS all by my lonesome.