Virtual sex, no matter how realistic, was really nothing but glorified, computer-assisted masturbation.

I wanted to be able to write in the voice that I talk to my friends and assume that everybody would know what I was talking about.

I noticed in the late 1990s that my friends and I were already nostalgic for the 1980s, and by the turn of the century, VH1's 'I Love the '80s' gave all of us an accelerated nostalgia for our generation.

For one quarter, Black Tiger lets me escape from my rotten existence for three glorious hours. Pretty good deal.

Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand.

It is on!" Aech shouted into his comlink. "it is on like Red Dawn!

I notice when I'm at a party where I don't know anybody - even if I have nothing in common with somebody - we can still talk because we were raised by the same TV and cartoons and movies.