Dear Sir Viking -

Godspeed and good luck Sir Viking.

I wish you the best of luck in this endeavor, Sir Viking.

"German music festival Rock am Ring has been forced to ask attendees to evacuate today…"

I do so hope that Mister Viking turns up alive and unharmed. His missives on these comment boards have brought a smile to the face of many a reader, and after his strange stories of these last few weeks, I will admit to some concern for his safety.

Good sir -

Holy shit a post from ZMF! It's like seeing a once common bird now hunted to near extinction in the wild! Good to see you!

The solo on "Not Fade Away" by Buddy Holly. It's stupid-simple, but it sounds to me something like pure joy, and it makes me happy every single time that I hear it.

Iron Giant, Saving Private Ryan, and GotG would all be off the table under this setup. Unacceptable, I say!

I go with semi-tangential pop culture references. My older dog is an Alaskan Klee-Kai (which is basically just a smallish husky), and he looks very nordic, so his name is Nanook, as in Nanook of the North. Younger dog is a whippet who can run like mad, so his name is Wally after Wally West - the Flash that I grew up…

For me, Robert's Rebellion is the thing I'd least like them to pursue. As a more or less straight up prequel, we know too much about what's coming down the road, and one of the true pleasures of GoT is having no clear idea of who's got plot shielding and who doesn't.

This shit has got me truly depressed. I can't even take solace in the idea that if this was to become the law of the land, the people who would be most burned by it would point the blame in the right direction. No, somehow or another, it's all going to be spun to be the Dems' fault. Or somehow be Obama's fault in…

True. It would be a very different kind of show, at the very least.

Dunk and Egg could be interesting, just because the tone is a bit different.

Dunk and Egg?

Yep - that's the one.

Yup. Still - I don't begrudge the money I spent. I loves me some damn Pogues.

It's definitely worth $20. I paid a ridiculous import price for it back in the day.

I saw them play on St. Pat's Day in NYC maybe 5 years ago or so. Was an excellent good time. I'd go see this in a heartbeat if I was still living in Brooklyn.

There's a pretty decent U.K. only boxed set from maybe 10 years back or so that has a few live tracks on it with Strummer singing.