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I'm the guy who calls out "Natalie!" on the 10,000 Maniacs 'MTV Unplugged Album'

On Six British Candies: Which Tastes Best?

The only British sweets that I really miss (and that I occasionally pay a fortune for here in Canada, or have my mother bring over) are Rowntree's Fruit Gums, and to a lesser degree their Fruit Pastilles. There is really nothing else quite so satisfyingly hard-chewy and real-fruity going. I've long agonised over why they don't make or sell them here: pretty much every other Rowntree/Nestle, Cadbury, Mars etc product is also made and sold in some form in Canada, but not Fruit Gums.

Posted on September 24, 2012 at 8:31 pm 0

On Brooklyn Is Helping You Be Terrible

You guys are *still* talking about Clinton's speech?

Posted on September 13, 2012 at 4:54 pm 0

On Word Mispronounced

Isthmus
Synecdoche
Shibboleth

Posted on September 5, 2012 at 5:22 pm 0

On "Roseanne" Or "Frasier"?

Linoleum is a sheet flooring material derived from linseed oil - swirly, spoltchy patterns, flexible and resilient. It would be extremely avant-garde, but warranty-voiding, to use it to cover the outside of a house.
Vinyl-sided is probably what was meant.

Posted on August 10, 2012 at 9:58 pm 0

On Hotel Gets Publicity

Eww.

Posted on July 13, 2012 at 6:34 pm 0

On Better To Have Your Shoe Licked Than Your Face Chewed Off

@cherrispryte Yeah, until now all I knew about Ybor City was that it was très speedy but they threw such killer parties.

Posted on June 4, 2012 at 12:22 pm 1

On Visualizations

I imagine the early Middle Ages happened as tapestry, the late Middle Ages was a big woodcut, but the future, when we conqure space, is vector graphics.

Posted on May 25, 2012 at 11:45 am 0

On Audience Quick To Applaud

Well, the ovation did occur within that megasecond (11 days, 13 hours, 46 minutes and exactly 40 seconds in case anybody else was wondering) so the original statement was still, technically, correct.

Posted on May 22, 2012 at 11:54 am 1

On The Awesome Album Milla Jovovich Made When She Was 16

I bought this album by mistake, but it was an extremely lucky mistake, as it is indeed a great, and unique, selection of songs.
I picked it up for 10 bucks from a used CD shop in Calgary (Hot Wax) thinking it was an album by the Irish band The Divine Comedy. It's a CD I've held on to after having sold the rest of my collection 10 years ago.

Posted on May 16, 2012 at 8:47 pm 0

On El-P Raps Live On Letterman

Emerson, Lake and Palmer have certainly aged well

Posted on May 16, 2012 at 12:21 pm 0