I seriously was just about to type that.

So they’re Daleks?

If he called himself D. Day Lewis, he might.

I wouldn’t even call Evanston a small town. It’s just north of the Chicago border, home of Northwestern University, with a population of around 75,000 people. The El goes there.

I have never heard the phrase “Gish Gallop” before, and I just googled it. It’s a great phrase.

And that poor kid spent the night with an unset broken arm, and an amazing amount of excruciating pain. Explain to him the “cost benefit” of living with that pain.

It was a typo in the old books.

My favorite related fun fact - the Githyanki / Githzeri were created by one of my favorite sci-fi authors, Charles Stross!

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

We bought a few of these to watch election returns.

Sorry, I wasn’t clear. I meant that Selena thought Montez was playing up the Latina angle.

I thought the opposite - Selena thought she was playing up the Latina angle when she’s really a white lady from the Jersey burbs, who only has a Hispanic last name because of marriage.

We own a car seat called the Clek Foonf. It’s great, but I’m embarrassed to say the name out loud. http://clekinc.com/foonf/

He’s the piece of shit in the swimming pool.

I may quibble with a point or two, but this analysis holds truth.

That makes me think of the first time I saw the video for “Talk about the Blues” by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. I thought, “I don’t remember Jon Spencer being that hot.”

Possibly the only album 11-year-old me loved that present-day me is not embarrassed by.

I always thought the Atari 7800 looked pretty badass.

I work with a guy named Jihad. He’s of Lebanese decent, and a total hipster - the last person you’d suspect of any kind of terrorist activity. The worst thing you could accuse him of is pretentiousness about craft beer.

Several-years-ago me had the completely unplanned foresight to upload a bunch of his stuff to my Google Music account, so that's what I'm sharing with the office today.