“Wow. I can identify a Joni Mitchell song at 50 paces!”

— Me, at home, speaking to my wife, upon hearing “Coyote” from Joni’s 1979 album Hejira playing over the one of the satellite music channels.

“You know, Megadeth is like the anti-Emo.”

— Me, at Lilly’s Pizza, speaking to the guy at the counter, while picking up a takeout order. The crew at Lilly’s were playing “Holy Wars … The Punishment Due” from the 1990 classic Rust in Peace. I wanted to break into an air guitar solo so bad, and I probably could have gotten away with it, because, you know, it’s Lilly’s, and everyone there is so, you know, ironic.