agreed on the recent KISS game.

sweet. i just found my Tesla too. took delivery last week — it's a Model S P100DL. it's absurd.

one of a tiny handful of humans to have not one, but two pinball machines themed after her — Elvira and the Party Monsters (1989) and Scared Stiff (1996). Both are great games. the latter is rather valuable, actually.

dude if she was 14, then that anecdote took place over 50 years ago.

"When I stopped chirping about hand fatigue and durability inside one particularly grand Wellesley home, the matriarch gave me a long, stony look. “These seem like good knives,” she said. She ordered $300 worth. As I was packing up to leave, I launched into the second part of my script where I begged for the names and…

No! I won't go back! You don't know what it's like in our universe. Decent food is gone. McDonalds is everywhere!

what an asshole.

it seems to me he was less interested in making good art, than he was in using art as a means of finding something inside himself that he liked. sort of like a meditative centering excercise, or something.

anyway, technology has moved past satellite being a thing, at least for me. my car gives me access to any number of online streaming services that fill my desire for niches that Satellite has chosen not to touch.

i would just like to point out that i am also witty enough to have come up with that retort.

you have not missed the boat on weird al, you have missed the boat on life. when death comes for you, and you suddenly realize how lonely and empty and wasted your life has been, think back on your statement here as a bright, flashing signpost as to why.

eh, if you are yelling at a big famous band and calling for one of their hit singles, then yeah, you are kinda being naive. but smaller bands at smaller venues will certainly take requests.

yeah, i was there.

oh my god i'm stealing that.

i miss Fungus. sure, it was really little different from listening to my iPod on shuffle, but it was still pretty fun being reminded of bands i'd almost forgotten about.

well, he wrote the song before anyone, including him, had even seen the movie. it's really remarkable that he was able to hit so many plot beats in the movie, based solely on piecing together internet rumors pre-release.

haha that really is pretty much the only thing people associate with VA, huh?

Loving v. Virginia is for Lovers

a lot of good breweries too.

actually the game's website describes the setting as "America's rural heartland" … Fairfax is anything but a "rural heartland" unless the game is set in 1971.