Heh. Yeah, I was already a crusty and jaded 26-or-so-year-old.

Was this whole thing started by W.C. Fields?

Hahahaha, The Strokes. Jesus fucking christ. I remember buying a copy of Is This It? based solely on they hype & how much I'd been reading about them; I don't think I'd actually heard their actual music at that point. I remember popping the disc into the player, cranking the volume, and being immediately hit like a…

Try The Crane Wife too, if you haven't. It's beautiful.

I really can't stress enough just how good all of his books are. But yeah, Chaos Walking is superb.

Yeah, as a plot device, the Noise would be extremely difficult to pull off in an audio or on-screen format. Too bad, because it's a really clever, really cool plot device.

Shrug. Nope, just a "thing" I did there, I guess.

Currently re-reading "The Knife of Never Letting Go," book 1 of the Chaos Walking series by Patrick Ness. He's a fantastic author; all of his books - both his YA stuff like this and his adult books - are excellent.

His clothes were ruined at the Battle of Taanab. Not so much from the battle itself; Nien Nunb dumped a whole pitcher of cherry Kool-Ade on him (Nien Nunb likes to stay refreshed during battles; he also loves sugar).

Ynyah, ynyah, huh huh huh huh huh huh huh!

C'mon Lawrence old buddy, don' let me down!

Also there's a huge vat of melted butter.

The Lobot Strut is still one of the funkiest & most popular dance moves this side of Kashyyyk.

I shart fast!

Maggots, Michael; you're eating maggots.

That would've been some prime ribbing, for sure.

God I love @Nihilist_Arbys, because there is no god, we are all already dead. I also like the curly fries. Burn it all down.

I like Hannibal Buress.

Why is everyone so mad about a grape? It's just a little piece of fruit. The seeds are pretty annoying I guess, but overall they're good; you make wine out of them, they're good with cheese, you can make raisi-

Huh.