"Everything's Gone Green" is one of my favorites. Such an ahead of its time track. It's hard to believe it was released in 1981, since it still sounds so modern. The ever humble Tony Wilson called it, "the most important song in the modern world."

This and "Drops of Jupiter" are the musical equivalent of a boot stamping on a human face forever.

I like to throw on some Sade. The early stuff, though, before her arrangements got too baroque.

The same cannot be said for that idiot Tibor.

Yup, as The Space Pope mentioned, it's a character from Bloom County. I'd totally recommend checking it out. It's up there with Calvin & Hobbes and Far Side as one of the great comics from the 80s-90s.

Catherine is built around a block-moving puzzle game that I didn't find very interesting to play, but everything else in the game—the plot, themes, cut scenes, and character interaction gameplay moments (which take up a large portion of the game and are actually consequential)—is fun, weird, super entertaining, and…

I had the same experience. I also saw Pulp Fiction in the theater in 1994 as a teenager and, culturally, it was a life changing experience. Growing up in the suburbs, I was only exposed to popular mainstream movies, so it never entered my mind that a film could have things like unconventional dialogue, a non-linear…

I just finished reading China's Second Continent by Howard French, which is a really interesting exploration of China's expanding commercial and political influence in Africa on a personal level from both African and Chinese perspectives.