There are some good IPAs in Texas. Rahr Stormcloud is nice.

Pretty much everything from Founders is top-notch. Try the Porter sometime; it's one of my go-to beers. Preferably when it gets cold and damp out.

When I first started down the craft beer path, I didn't "get" IPA for awhile. The first one that clicked for me was Stone IPA. Not saying it's my favorite or the best of the style, it was just the first one I drank where I could understand why anyone tolerated the stuff.

Oh, I liked Fringe a lot. White Tulip was another really good episode. But I don't ponder the implications of Fringe. Dollhouse is like a really fun discussion from an Intro to Philosophy of Mind course.

I feel old moment: the girl in that top photo (Adair Tishler, who you might remember from such shows as "Heroes") is somehow twenty years old now.

But my biggest beef with the series: the ending. I thought it was too easy to put things (sort of) back how they were, and it undercut the logic of the series. Also, Topher should have lived, because that guy needed to deal with the mayhem he'd unleashed. Really deal with it, not just go crazy. I would have ended it…

Dollhouse wasn't the best show on TV at the time, and it wasn't even my favorite show at the time. But it was the one I thought about the most. I still think about Dollhouse. You know the last time I really thought about an episode of Fringe? Farking never.

I'll assume all of your Townes Van Zandt is on vinyl, as God intended.

I regret to admit that I am intrigued. There are a lot of reasons people might want memories erased, and all sorts of challenges that might face the quirky crack team of memory erasers. Or maybe it can just be David Cross and Jane Adams yelling at each other for 40 minutes. Either way, I'll tune in.

The part where the face-huggers leap onto Ripley in the lab? They pulled the puppet off her face real fast and then ran the film backwards. You can see the water drops going up if you look closely.

A game that came out … the same year as Aliens. Coincidence?

Bruce Springsteen and Warren Zevon aren't on your radar?

I'm down for some Yeah Yeah Yeahs as well. For me it's "Despair" though.

That's good, too. Never hit me the same way, though.

"Guaranteed" by Eddie Vedder, off the Into the Wild soundtrack. That song came on the radio one morning while I was driving to work, and I had to pull over to listen to it. It made me feel like quitting my job and running off to Alaska. I went to grad school instead. Not sure I made the best choice.

When discussing the influence of Aliens, you should really mention the Halo games. They just lifted design and story elements straight out of that movie.

Somebody tweeted a few months back that every black actor who has ever played a slave should be cast as a Wakandan scientist in Black Panther. The credits would roll for days, though.

I'm more interested now that SHIELD is back in good graces and apparently administering the Sokovia Accords. I never really bought into the "agency on the run" thing.

Yeah, there was a news crawl about "gang wars in Hell's Kitchen" on a TV Coulson was watching at one point. Not much more than that, though. The Netflix shows never mention AoS, as far as I know.

But they didn't even question him. They must have known where he was.