There Are All Kinds Of Mix Tapes.

The 2000s Were The Time When Bromance Became A Kind Of Love That Dared To Speak Its Name. As A High-water Mark Of Bro Culture, Nothing Can Ever Top The Mtv Series 'bromance,' With Brody Jenner And His Search For A New Bff.

Like Many Other Touchstones Of Twenty-first-century Pop Culture, 'the Sopranos' Was Hatched In The Late Nineties, Predicting A Future That Never Arrived. It Was Designed For A Decade That Would Be Just Like The Nineties, Except More So, In An America That Enjoyed Seeing Itself As Smarter And Braver And Freer Than Ever Before.

'drive,' That's The One. I Love Dozens Of Songs By R.e.m., But That's The One, Even Though It Took Me 7 Or 8 Years To Start Liking It.

It's Kind Of Amazing How Popular 'grey's Anatomy' Is. What Other Show Can Boast Such An Annoyingly Sincere Cast Of Doctors, Sniveling Through Such Perfunctory Love Triangles?

The Word 'repulse': I Hate This Word. I Believe 'repel' Is A Perfectly Good Word, And 'repulsion' Is The Noun, As Well As The Title Of An Excellent Dinosaur Jr. Song. A Compulsion Compels You; An Impulse Impels You. Nobody Ever Says 'compulse' Or 'impulse' As A Verb. So Why Would You Ever Say 'repulse'? This Word Haunts Me In My Sleep, Like A Silver Dagger Dancing Before My Eyes. Renee Looked It Up And I Was Wrong. But I Still Kind Of Think I'm Right.