Sophie Says Sooth (2003.03.10): "Do you mean a family room, for reading, watching TV, and general hanging out in? Or are you referring to a formal living room for use pretty much only when company comes over who you're not suitably comfortable with to invite into the TV room? I don't much like the idea of the latter, so I'm going to pretend we're looking at the former then."

Sophie Says Sooth (2003.02.24): "Every apartment inhabited by a young college graduate contains one, too. Usually they originate in someone's parents' basement, but even that isn't always the case. Somewhere in the 70's when all of those drugs were floating around, someone spilled some on the couches, who soaked it up and achieved sentience. Now they breed."

Rainer Maria / Long Knives Drawn: "Why can't you understand? Why can't you feel the same? She's making an implicit demand and it's an absurd one. 'I was thinking we could go and live/In a monastery.' But whomever she's singing to won't answer, even though they both know what the answer is."

Flick Chick - "The Hours" & "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind": "I'm sure it was more fun to participate in than to watch. I guess I could stretch and say that the concept of tying the three storylines together was clever, but the movie is just a flat-out adaptation of the book, which means the book is clever, not the screenplay."

Music in 2002: Top 15 Albums: "I don't think more than two of these records would have made last year's top ten. In a year crowded with good records, 2002 had little greatness to offer. It was a time in which disposable music dominated -- I can't remember why I bought some of the records I bought this year."

San Diego Comic-con 2002: Part 1: "A lot of it sounded like standard conspiracy theory bullshit; I would like to believe him about the income taxes, though. Apparently it has something to do with the improper ratification of the 16th Amendment and taxing our privilege of earning money."