Bob may already have a blender, but it’s probably old and crappy. Besides, a blender that you win in a contest of skill at an air show will ALWAYS be better than whatever blender you already have.

Last night I dreamt I was in a stationery store and found the special paper Bob bought. It was in a mylar sleeve rather than a box, but it was beautiful.

I also noticed a resemblance in the pose, but I wasn’t expecting a parody. It’s an evocative pose, and an elegant one. It suited the mood of the sketch very well, I thought.

The biggest surprise of the night for me was finding out that Jonah Hill had hosted four times previously, since I hadn’t seen any of them. Granted, there was a long period of time when I wasn’t watching the show (since I had no way to record it and I wasn’t about to stay up late enough to watch it live), but either…

So the idea that it’s worse in China somehow implies that it’s OK here? My understanding is that drivers in Paris and Rome are insane. Does that mean that bad drivers over here get a free pass?

I know they ride a lot of bikes is Asia, but my understanding is that they keep to the roads. How is this germane?

If I had the guts, every time I saw an unattended scooter on the sidewalk I’d jump on it to break its spine. Just a quick “chunk” and it’s dead, and the scooter companies would soon deem it cost ineffective to just leave them sitting out there...

This too.

That’s the point Anthony Burgess’s final chapter of “A Clockwork Orange,” which the publishers didn’t initially include and which Kubrick didn’t film, made. A handful of years after being “cured” of his “cure,” Alex ends up working in an office somewhere...

Most people don’t ride their rental bicycles on sidewalks. Some of the scooter users in SF keep them on the streets (as most seemingly did in South Park), but more often they’re weaving in and out of pedestrian traffic.

If it couldn’t fit on one side of a 45, it couldn’t really be considered a “single.” Yeah, there a lots of songs that were released in edited versions so you could buy a song without buying an album, and if it’s long ENOUGH you’d put it on both sides (“American Pie” was a hugely popular “single” but it was annoying as …

“Moral desert” is when you get what you have DESERVED. If you have been bad, what would your “moral dessert” then be? Rancid spinach ice cream?

“I just wanted to sell you sme drugs, and you made it *weird!*"

“every character in that show was basically in arrested Development”

The thing is that the nicotine is the addictive element to tobacco, but it’s not the most harmful; that would be the tar and smoke (and the gunpowder, and the other additives you inhale). Nicotine goes into the bloodstream, the tar collects in the lungs.

“You can’t just name a person ‘Bob.’”

I overlooked the “stunning range” mention myself until somebody else pointed it out so I apologize as well; Dennis may well have been comparing Paul’s performance last night to Artie’s rendition rather than to Paul’s own history singing it, but either way the fact remains that “Bridge” may now be beyond Paul’s abilitie…

OK, I’ll give you that. :-)

This was the one with the turkey costume; when Paul sang “Bridge,” Artie didn’t show up.

Paul Simon has been singing “Bridge Over Troubled Water” himself for more than 40 years (he’s probably sung it thousands more times than Artie has by now) and while Artie sung it best, Paul has sung it much better in the past than he did last night.