During that brief period when they had cancelled WW, I was working up an inventory on Wikipedia articles about Wikipedia, but they ended up just bringing back WW.

I did consider including it, but as I've never seen the show, I had less to say about than some that are more familiar to Americans.

I feel like, if Obama had that much backbone, we would have investigated Putin rigging the election before now.

I should have followed that link! I assumed the Wilson presidential desk would be named after President Wilson, but I guess that wasn't a reasonable thing to assume!

I love that idea. I've got Josephine Baker, two of the three Stooges (Larry and Moe, died four months apart), Rod Serling (closest to my birthday), T-Bone Walker, and Tim Buckley. And that's just from the pop culture lists.

Very good context. I try not to use non-Wikipedia sources, so I missed out on that completely.

Sometimes I can't make a category work, and it's usually that one. Or sometimes I just don't have enough to write about and drop "also noteworthy." The more you know!

Honestly a big improvement over the previous century's wine additive du jour, lead.

The Irish love their spray-tan. Which makes some sense, given how rarely the sun makes an appearance. But go out on Dublin on a Saturday night, and it's like you're wading through a crowd of Oompa-Loompas.

Ugh. So many. Those stupid gigantic ear holes. The topknot. Pants with things written on the ass. Enormous 80s Glasses making an ill-advised comeback.

I will continue to wear skinny jeans for as long as I can keep deluding myself that I'm still skinny!

Also a banned person. That was getting out of hand.

It's funny, the whole time I've been doing Wiki Wormhole, I've wondered why they made room for my weird nerdy discursions that rarely have anything at all to do with pop culture. Not that I'm complaining. And yet, in three years, I've never had a single comment suggesting, even gently, that the column didn't belong on…

Done and done. Sorry I wasn't faster.

My favorite made-up curse word is "crunk," because it was invented by Conan O'Brien for a running bit, but then somehow the hip-hop community unironically embraced it.

Because I set up this format in ten minutes three years ago, and dammit, I'm going to slavishly adhere to it!

Remember the "media recount"? It looked a lot like, had the votes been counted accurately, Gore would have had a comfortable margin. And that's not even taking widespread voter suppression into account — the unsung villain of both 2000 and 2016.

With the Civil War, I feel like if it hadn't been that election it would have been something else. The South was itching for a fight, no matter how much the North appeased them.

Fantagraphics collection of strips is pretty great, if you're curious.

I actually found out about Krazy from Bill Watterson. In the intro to one of the Calvin & Hobbes collections, he talks about his big influences being Peanuts, Pogo, and Krazy Kat. It was the one of the three I had never seen, so I sought it out.