Gruel?

It's all the hair. They often get tangled together, like rat kings.

That Beth is a tasty dish!

"We're just gonna wait for a while. I've inadvertently wiped out every other settlement I've come across, and I don't see why this one should be any different."

Every time I see your avatar I think it's a glowering cat. What is wrong with me?

Mine's Repo Man — at the time, saying "flip you, melon farmer," just seemed like part of the general sense of humor. But, no.

I hope you haven't been saving it since 2004, because that's the first time I heard it.

It's spelled "Yo-Landi."

Also, go back and check out her previous band, Immaculate Machine. "Ones and Zeros" and "Fables" are both albums that I like a lot.

So much the best.

I cried when Ebert died, too, and you're right, I do miss him.

There is a very small of pool of celebrities that I'm not just sad about when they die but that I actively miss on an ongoing basis.

When I realized that I was actually kind of bummed to have missed out forever on DCA's long-gone and oft-excoriated Superstar Limo, I decided to catch Eo when I had the re-born (and probably last ever) chance to do so.

I saw it for the first time when I went to Disneyland last year. It was…well, I'm glad I got to see in the theater, I guess. I don't think it'll hold up on home video.

Oh my gosh. I had totally forgotten that Ian Gomm even existed for the last twenty years. Thanks for this.

Don't put DVDs in the science oven!

Playing it on repeat reveals something really neat: the way the album is bookended.

I dig Tusk, but the 33 1/3 book actively makes me angry. All that passive-aggressive whining stuff that takes up a third of the book is so frustrating.

Sweet! I've had to talk myself out of buying a dremel set a couple of times.

New soldering iron!