ARE YOU A NERD?

Do you like graphic novels? Are you, at least, an Alan Moore fan? He wrote the novelization of the famous movie "The Watch Men," FYI. Anyway, I have a first edition copy of "Lost Girls" I am selling. I will give you a good deal.

FRIEDA STIFFENED HER KNOBBLY FINGERS, SIGHED, AND FELT THE MOMENT

Has there ever been a common cultural currency as dense and widely recognizable as The Simpsons is for our generation/s (teenagers to the fortyish)? Seriously! The only ones I could think of that could compare (to varying degrees) were The Beatles or The Bible.

SERIOUS QUESTION

Why am I always able to solve "difficult" sudokus, but sometimes stumble on "easy" ones?

MY RELATIONSHIP IS IN TROUBLE

My hockey boyfriend Alexander Ovechkin has been caught ogling a couple of Montreal skanks. This is heartbreaking.

PIKE PROBS

I was on Rockville Pike (near Richard Montgomery) the other day and there was a place with an obscured storefront (I couldn't find it anywhere) but a huge sign that said:

Bubble Tea
Hookah
Kebab
Sushi*

WHAT IS THIS PLACE? Ten Ren? I tried googling it but nothing came up.

*I think

I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE

While the teaming of Thelonious Monk (piano) with John Coltrane (tenor sax) might "look better on paper," as the adage goes, rest assured the results are even better on the disc.

Does she mean something like "one might think that the pairing of Monk and Coltrane would be better on paper than on disc, but this is not the case," perhaps? Or am I just stupid? Yes?