As a relative newcomer to PGH, I find genuine delight when I meet someone who speaks in real-deal Pittsburghese. Not in a "hey look at this curiosity" way, but more just joy that there are still places where homogenization hasn't totally taken hold.

When I was in college, everyone's favorite professor invited the class over for an end-of-the-year cookout. He lived in a house that was built around an 18th-century log cabin and had since been stuffed with various collections of various things from around the world. He had a fantastic record collection that he…

They're both great albums, but I love that while the Beatles were being coy with "She Said She Said" and "Doctor Robert", the VU was blatantly singing about waiting for the man to sell them heroin.

True story: when I first saw the video for "Mm-bop" (don't care how many Ms), I thought it was an elaborate performance piece by Beck about the nature of pop music and fame, then in his prankster Odelay days. I mean, their last name is Hansen, they kind of looked like him, and and it was… actually not bad.

You know, when I got my latest microwave, I thought the Terms and Conditions were kind of long for a box that basically turns cold food into alternatively still-cold and molten-hot food.

I mean, it's not like he was going to actually pay any of them.

To be fair, the theory is that they're related because they're the only *good* characters who have British accents. Tons of the of bad characters have British accents in the films, and even John Boyega, who actually is British but plays a good guy, speaks with some version of an American accent.

Oh, like Jack White would ever use files. Now if you'd said film reels…

I would hate to be the lowly intern who has to go song-by-song to add smells to their famous musical genome, although I guess every now and then you'd get a softball like "Smells Like Teen Spirit" or "Cherry Pie".

Like you, I don't have cable, but unlike you, I do tend to seek out former Daily Show correspondents' shows online. All my TV watching is online, and I like my comedy with a side of politics and my politics with an acknowledgment of the absurd, so it's a good fit.

Maybe I'm just projecting, but I always thought once cool, now not was the basis of Dad Rock, as in "I used to be with it, but then they changed what 'it' was. Now, what I'm with isn't it, [but I still like Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.]"

Like many a young architecture student, I started reading the Fountainhead because I thought it was about an architect, and like many a young nerd who did not yet realize how precious time is, I finished reading it because of completism. So I remember her scheming caricature as well as anyone would remember a dull…

"into the grime-coated world…"

I was just wondering if anyone with an Ayn Rand username has an irrelevant comment on this subject yet feels the need to voice their opinion anyway. Thanks for clearing it up.

To be fair, it's also sad dad rock and bad dad rock.

So "men on a boat"-era New Kids on the Block are taking over the Mike Love-led Kokomo-era Beach Boys role from the old series. The circle is complete.

Should we bet on which standard Trump insult gets hurled at DeNiro in retaliation? I was originally going with "lightweight", but I'm thinking "washed up" seems more likely.

Not the Biden we need, but the Biden we deserve.

Limp Bizkit sitting around their office full of empty Bud Light Lime cans and irreparably-stained basketball jerseys (assuming): "Hey guys, you know what would be super metal? A soft launch of our re-brand on social media!" High fives all around.

Forget it, Arch… it's Riverdale.