I wanna really, really, really wanna ziggurat. But the Lord knocks them down once they get too tall.

A supposed New Yorker eating a slice with a knife and fork is enough to make me demand to see a birth certificate.

There was actually an anecdote I had read about Werner Heisenberg in the years leading up to World War II, where he came under attack for his close ties with prominent Jewish physicists. Theoretical work on quantum mechanics and relativity seemed to be viewed with suspicion by the establishment at the time. This was…

The only system she couldn't analyze… was LOVE.

What do you do when you hit the tremolo part?

There needs to be a special category for "[Song by artist], but in the style of [other artist]". I feel like I could have fun doing Le Tigre's "Deceptacon" in the style of Glenn Danzig, if it were ever available as a selection.

Well, it would be the bathing suit area when the Transformer's shaped like a person, but on an innocuous part of the drive train assembly when it's a truck.

I'll go to bat for A Man For All Seasons any day of the week. Never seen The Ten Commandments, but it seems well regarded in cinema history. Andrei Rublev is another- a lot of Tarkovsky is influenced by his religion, but in less overt ways.

It can be two things. It's a simple disjunction, which can be satisfied by Rock, or Bust, or both Rock and Bust simultaneously. Commonly, people may use OR when they mean the exclusive disjunction (XOR) but if they mean that it should then be styled the ROCK ⊕ BUST Tour. The regular disjunction has the advantage of…

"Friends, Romans, countrymen, drop me the bass
I came not to bury Caesar, but to spit rhymes in your face."

Evidently our old phone number growing up was one digit transposed from the local cable company. Every now and then we'd come back to an irate answering machine message about someone's signal going out- invariably, they were upset about missing pro wrestling.

I dunno, Aguirre: The Wrath of God is pretty boss.

My first thought on seeing the headline was that he was portraying Stetson Kennedy*, the activist who fed information on the Klan's secret rituals to the writers of the Superman radio show.

I didn't watch last night, but in recent years, I recall them muting the audience sounds- just some orchestral music* and the images. I suppose you'd still hear the applause if you were there in person.

Borg Queen seemed like a good idea on paper, but even with their hive mind, none of them knew any of the words beyond singing "WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS / RESIST-ANCE IS FU-TILE / 'CAUSE WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS" over and over.

"In the Cards" is the one with him and Jake bartering for the Willie Mays card. "Treachery, Faith, and the Great River" was similar- Nog was working with O'Brien and made several swaps to get some parts, (best step of that one was when they borrowed Sisko's desk for some guy to take his picture behind) with the solid…

Good thing that Cardassian captain didn't take Nu'Daq up on the offer of his mother's biscuits in "The Chase", she would have gotten the better of him by a mile.

The acquisition of wealth is no longer a driving force in their lives. They work to better themselves and the rest of humanity.

Every schoolyard bully accumulates a pack of weasely kids around them, who side with the biggest asshole just so he won't turn on them.

Hey, I didn't let Hitler's approval ruin Metropolis. You can't let someone who sucks discolor you liking something good, because then you suffer and the guy who sucks wins.