Comments on: New Digs: October 16-21, 2000

By: John

John — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 01:12:58 +0000

Rocky’s wouldn’t be this place, would it?
https://www.facebook.com/p/Rockys-Bbq-joint-100054450071475/

By: Anton Sherwood

Anton Sherwood — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 06:40:00 +0000

“Traveling in a fried-out Kombi…”

Circa 2002 I was once mistaken for Rory Root, apparently because I was (a) wearing a wide-brim hat and (b) standing in a comics shop thirty miles away.

By: eekee

eekee — Mon, 14 May 2018 19:32:16 +0000

I got directed to “the best cafe in the world,” once. It… took me a minute to recognize that it was, in fact, a cafe; hidden as it was behind ugly galvanized fencing in the corner of a very large, very cheap used car place, and being, as it was, an old cargo container with a hole cut into the side for a door. I’m still sorry it was shut that day, and that it’s a little too far for a casual visit. Come to think of it, I’m feeling fitter these days…

By: Mental Mouse

Mental Mouse — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 00:30:47 +0000

It that “fascination” our first sight of the embryonic Mad Font?

Also, in her fascination with gerbils Helen will completely squander Fortune’s gift of an ooze-monster to play with and unleash upon the hapless world. (Or will she? Could her well-mannered slime mold be a descendant of the living “pool of something sticky”?)

By: John Mead (johnbobmead)

John Mead (johnbobmead) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:30:54 +0000

-star beer is Lonestar Beer, at one time the preppy drink of choice, disgusting near water confection that it is; it was replaced by Rolling Rock for a while, and eventually Corona supplanted them as the preppy beer.

Give me a Guinness any day of the year.

By: Skreyola the Mysterious (skreyola)

Skreyola the Mysterious (skreyola) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:30:53 +0000

Not one but two references to Studio Ghibli films. You are officially awesome, on top of all the other cool things you reference (MST3K, etc.) 🙂

By: Josh Burson (schreibergasse)

Josh Burson (schreibergasse) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:30:52 +0000

<i>You named Bartleby?</i> Whoooa.

One question, though: isn't Mel a vegetarian? So what is she eating at the Rib Shack?

By: Doug Dawson (lordkelvin)

Doug Dawson (lordkelvin) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:30:51 +0000

Ach, stupid registration process lousing up my post. I was going to be the first one to ID the Lone Star Beer, but no...

I went to college in Houston, and LSB was the stuff no one was desperate enough to touch. (My residential college had a Best Room contest each year; the Worst Room in the contest won a case of Lone Star.)

Some years later, I returned to Houston for a conference. Dining out with colleagues, one fellow perused the drink menu and announced, "I'll have a Lone Star." Up and down the table, maybe a dozen people chorused, "NOOOOOO!" ala Episode III--and most of these people only ever went to Texas for this particular conference.

By: John Wells (johnwwells)

John Wells (johnwwells) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:30:50 +0000

J. Belden: Given that I have a closet full of Evil shirts, I can't see why Helen wouldn't.

By: Norman Thallheimer (norman)

Norman Thallheimer (norman) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:30:49 +0000

Expert testimony (my roommate is a conniseur of all things alcohol) agrees with Lone Star Beer.Alas, it has been too long since I heard the OKWWM.