I have been waiting 25 years to hear Scarlet Begonias on the radio, in either it’s Sublime or Grateful Dead versions.

In a the short story “The Sound of Music” by David Carrico, part of the 1632/Ring of Fire series where a town of West Virginians is transported to Seventeenth century Germany, a “down-time” musician is shocked by a bar-band rendition of Elton John’s “Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting”:

I do not have the breadth of video game experience that you guys have, so I ask, are there any games that have fully realized characters like books and better movies and TV shows do? NPC companions that grow or change or have internal dialogs or conflicts that we are privy to? Villeins with complicated inner lives?

And was turned into the eternal Silmaral bearer as the morning star whose light was captured into a glass phial by Lady Galadrial who provided it to Frodo who used it to drive off Shelob and by Sam to break the spell of the Mordor gate-watchers. It is saying that the events that happened in the semi-mythical past have…

What the hell does Old Chub mean when it says “It’s like Sputnik”? It was launched in the 50's? It's odd shaped with pointy things sticking out?  It orbits the Earth?  It's communism's challenge to capitalist technology?  It inspires greater science education?  Am I just too dumb to get the joke?  Is the joke too dumb…

In the late sixties, The Fugs even had an underground hit with the song “Coca Cola Douche”.

Hell, "Saint" Louis IX was no saint.

For real.  It wasn't until I took my mom's copy of "Valley of the Horses" until I realized, hey, girls like sex too!

I tried Mrs Butters worth, but my valves started to stick.

The restaurants around here that I go to almost always have empty tables, so I should be able to sit as long as I want without feeling guilty that I am screwing up anyone’s cash flow. Who wants to go somewhere packed anyway? The service will often be worse, the food not especially better, the atmosphere much noisier.

I don’t understand why other men don’t check out plus-sized womens’ bodies more. I love to look at fat chicks. Squishy bellies and boobs, big butts and thighs. We are all getting fatter in America (I know I am). Why not embrace the trend instead of being stuck with twentieth century beauty tropes?

If the world was logical, the same would be true of Chuck Grassley.

So where does "The Simarillion" sit?

Can get I get a level on the bass and on the treble?

“Shooting Star” was the template for “Into the Great Wide Open”.

Bartenura kosher wines from Italy are available in many cities, even those with very small Jewish populations. The blue bottle Bartenura Moscato is most common since it is sweet and has a pretty big following among non-Jews as well (like Manischewitz had among black people back in the day).

Sleeping pills are the ones that are really dangerous to mix with.

Out my window cool and bright
Fade so slowly into night
Funny how things look the same
Now that my friend Ebin’s changed

Or Mitchie the Kid from City Slickers

Could be worse.  You could have been named Ebin.