It turns out telephone sanitizers are usually quite handsome.

With the subtitle "You want a toe?" no less.

That’s not good for your enamel, dude.

Some people try to play third base

That sound you hear is thousands of Virginia fans sighing with relief.

Prime 3 was only my second favorite in the series, but the sense of identification with Samus was so strong with the Wii controls (especially with advanced controls turned on) that I had night after night of dreaming that I was Samus during the time that I was playing the game.

They did! You have to turn on the advanced motion controls. Then you keep it pointed vaguely at the center of the screen and moving it away acts like an analog stick.

I felt like Prime 2 hit a wall in the Torvus Bogs (screw it—the game gets bogged down there). The color scheme is relentlessly dreary, and the level design isn’t particularly exciting either. It picks up immensely once you get to the Sanctuary Fortress, since we’d never seen an environment like that, shiny and chrome,…

She’s also been known to declare emphatically that the map is the territory.

My grandmother had a cat whom she drove from central Mass. to Cape Cod every couple of weeks. The cat would jump on the shelf behind the rear seats and bask in the sun for the whole drive and then, when we got to the Cape, she’d hop out of the car and wait by the door of the house until we unlocked it and let her in.

I think it’s also because this is a real-world issue. We don’t burn children at the stake, and there are no White Walkers to sacrifice our incest-conceived babies to. But hundreds if not thousands of women have been sexually assaulted here, on Earth, in the last twenty-four hours.

If there’s one writer who can make the inevitable Borg reboot rightly creepy as hell, it’s Peter Watts.

You used to lose it in the playoffs
Couldn’t make it to the conference game
Lose it in the playoffs
Couldn’t make it past the conference game
Now you’ve got that nouveau ring
Sadly that just means one thing

Yeah, that came out way more pedantic than I intended it, and I apologize. I meant it more as a, “Ha ha, Lucas thought he was saying one thing but he was really saying the opposite!”

Celibacy, though, is being forbidden from marrying or having children. Vowing never to have sex at all is chastity.

...To seek out new drifts and blizzard conditions
To boldly snow where no storm has snowed before...

Star Wars gets more authoritarian as it goes on, too. The first movie has Obi-Wan offering to show Han “the ropes” of the force; by the end of the prequels, it’s in-born, and you need to be trained from childhood in order to be able to wield it.

Yep, and then at five we’d turn to 13 for Carmen Sandiego and SquareOne TV.

You didn’t get the syndicated Disney Afternoon on some local broadcast channel? We didn’t even have cable when I was in elementary, but we could watch Duck Tales / Tailspin / Rescue Rangers every afternoon on 11.

Definitely had flashbacks to the 2005 super bowl, where even as a Pats fan I was yelling, “Where the hell is the hurry-up, Eagles!”