Man, where to begin. Dave's contributions to ILXor.com are what founded the cult, as it is, including such fine folks as John Darnielle and Chuck Eddy among its ranks. This is only a small range of some of what's available -- the search function on the site can help you dig up a lot more. Sometimes it's a thread he starts, sometimes it's a lengthy post, sometimes it's the quickest of observations -- and nearly every time, he nails it.

Mr. Darnielle, inspired by Dave's ways and words, started a thread once to celebrate Dave's greatest hits, and it's as sharp a way into the legend as any, so begin here:

Let Us Now Praise Dave Q

A good one-off sample can be found in this post from a thread called "why is Lydon considered more authentic than Joe Strummer":

The Clash were complete and utter shit because their artistic strategies were extra-musical. Now this isn't a problem if you're a) already working at a high enough level of musical craft [CONCEPTUALLY if not TECHNICALLY as long as the concepts are MUSICAL] or b) if your message is so incredibly fantastic that it sweeps asaide such quibbles. Well, no and no and both counts right? What's the difference? Lydon didn't render a facile, idiotic comment like "White Riot" on Britain's changing demographic - he responded by SINGING LIKE SOMEBODY WHO WAS REALLY INTO REGGAE which is secondarily a 'cultural'/'political' move but was primarily a MUSICAL move (which by my personal criteria is the only definition of 'not faking it', i.e. doing your goddamn job before going for all the photo ops). Whereas the Clash - they titled a song "Jimmy Jazz", ergo they understand black American culture right? They title an album Sandinista' so they understand the WORLD, right? (Actually I quite like "Straight to Hell", which is probably the only acceptable music- qua-music move they ever made and not coincidentally is the only one that currently active high-profile musicians ever cite) Ever since I saw that picture of Mick Jones with long hair in 'Last Gang in Town' how could I ever take them seriously again? (It's not the long hair per se that offends - it's that Jones looks equally as uncomfortable and embarrassing as a failed glamster than as a fake punk.) The only band that ever ascended higher on this particular shit mountain was Public Enemy. "Insane like Coltrane", no Chuck, you are as insane as the 'cool' careers counselor who got in a fistfight with the principal once. Although you are more insane than Mick Jones, if less than Flavor Flav.

Part of the Dave Q legend came about through his 'Taking Sides' threads -- the concept wasn't new, but many times the juxtapositions he came up with often were. Often the more willful they seemed, though, the more sense they ended up making.

• Taking Sides - Beatles vs Van Halen -- "a) The drum solo in "Hot for Teacher" is better than the one on ' Abbey Road', BUT b)Van Halen's '3' was their 10th album while the Beatles '1' was like their 537th."
• Taking Sides: Michael Rother vs. Duane Allman -- "a) Both come from areas with confused relationships to their pasts - rich in cultural achievements yet absolutely bloody appalling in other areas, so objectionable that both had to be occupied and 'reconstructed'. Also, people from both places like to drive really FAST."
• Taking Sides: Ween vs. Redd Kross -- "LA gets a bad rap, everything from LA in retrospect is ALWAYS the coolest. 60s - compare the garage bands, Love, Seeds etc. to the hippie drivel from SF. 70s - compare the garish, crass, glamorous, funny, faggy, violent Germs and TSOL to the po-faced, pretentious NY bohos ('phaggy', not 'faggy'). Ween & RK have had similar development, but you have to admit that spending your pre-adolescence doing coke with film stars in swimming pools is cooler than sniffing glue in your room. Although I admit I listen to Ween more now, but I rank the neglected 'Phaseshifter' right up there with 'C & C' or Urge Overkill's 'Exit the Dragon'. (Also, what's more tasteless, "HIV Song" or "Looking For Some Skank"?)"
• Taking Sides: Take That vs. 23 Skidoo -- "Their logos look the same!"
• Taking Sides: Todd Rundgren vs. Mark E Smith -- "Mean streets of the Lower East Side = (Birmingham School of Business School (Dean: R. Wood) = Langley Virginia) = (Gotti v. Giuliani/ Liddy v. Agee)? Except Liddy was in the FBI, imagine the tableau, somebody burning themselves with a candle sitting across from Hoover in his fishnets, saying "They were watching goddamned WATERFALLS in there. Waterfalls!" "Relax Gord. One day they WILL put a statue of him up in Milbrook. This rat salad is rather good!""
• Taking Sides: Punk vs. Hardcore -- "Or, fags vs. knuckleheads"
• Taking Sides: No Doubt vs. Texas -- "a) Gregg Alexander vs. Dave Stewart"
• Taking Sides: RZA vs. Dean Martin -- "Steel-town boys. Sociable - with people they know they can trust, who ain't square-john types from Dullsville. Maybe Tadeusz or somebody can tell us why every time you phone the Greater Pittsburgh area you hear all this clinking and buzzing in the background?"
• Taking Sides: AC/DC vs Joy Division/New Order -- "3)New Order denied Nazi connotations of name despite it being the SECOND consecutive Fuehrer-flavoured collective designation and also despite Ian Curtis' fascination with odd ideas (not forgetting their dark senses of humour and penchant for constant intoxication, Wilson's bullshit factory etc). AC/DC denied gay connotations of name despite songs such as "Big Balls", "She's Got Balls", and "Got You By The Balls", and also despite their puerile sense of humour and penchant for constant intoxication."
• Taking Sides: Third Eye Blind vs. Sugar Ray -- "Actually, this isn't a real 'TS'. I know that when people lapse into sputtering profanity, they've given up their cred credibility and their cool vanishes in the face of their incomprehension, so it's not really going to make me look any less retarded than I already do, but curiosity is killing this cat so here goes: WHO THE FUCKETY-FUCKING FUCK BUYS THIS GODDAMNED FUCKING SHIT? WHO ARE THESE FUCKHEADS? HOW DID THIS SORT OF FUCKING SHIT GET TO EXIST? WHO THE FUCKETY-FUCKING FUCK IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS PIG VOMIT? HOW WAS IT ALLOWED TO HAPPEN THAT AFTER A CENTURY OF POPULAR AMERICAN MUSIC, YEARS OF FUSION AND UPHEAVAL AND CULTURE AND INEXPLICABLE ERUPTIONS AND EVERYTHING ENDED UP WITH THIS....THIS....FUCKETY-FUCKING SHIT! IS THERE A NAME FOR THIS KIND OF FUCKING SHIT? WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK POSSESSED THESE FUCKERS TO WRITE AND RECORD THIS WORTHLESS SHIT AND WORSE YET, WHAT MAKES STUPID FUCKING ASSHOLES BUY AND LISTEN? WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH AMERICANS ANYWAY? EVEN CREED HAS THE CHRISTER THING GOING ON AS THEIR LAME ATTEMPT AT HAVING AN IDENTITY, BUT THESE SHITHEADS HAVE NOTHING GOING FOR THEM WHATEVER! AND I BET THEIR FANS ARE THE SAME! WHY DON'T YOU KILL THEM? FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK!"
• Taking Sides: Joy Division vs. Flipper -- "(For the remainder of this post I will replace the names 'Flipper' and 'Joy Division' with appropriate substitutes). Band/fans thing solved definitively - who would you rather be stuck in an airline seat next to, somebody wearing a 'Charlie Tuna' friendly line-drawing t-shirt or the ubiquitous jagged-pancake-stack 'Comfort Women' one? (Either that or the Vatican postcard one?) Admit it, by now any sane person will run away from somebody wearing the 'Srebenica Serb Spunk Spitfire' top, even an MSP 'Teenage Revolutionary Glam Suicide' one is less embarassing."
• Metallica's "One" vs. Kraftwerk's "The Robots" -- "Scorched-earth Cartesianism thru a scanner darkly. Body 'frags' brain>>>ziploc'd jungle-rotted meat>>>lysergicleansed brainpan >>>autobahn>>>D-Train. This we know macro stylee, brain w/out body = inverse xternalisation, 'nirvana' (as in 'zen' altho allusive of another famous mind-body separator) at the furthur end of the Long Strange Trip. Why nirvana bliss? Well it occured to me this morning like it does every morning, brain w/out a body hell yeah. Wake up involuntarily ("The wound healed without my consent" - Tarden in Kosinski's 'Cockpit'), fluids demand to be let out, cold-sensitive skin demands to keep fluids in. Peristalsis demands ingestion, entropising enamel demands relief, gums open up blood sluices in sympathy, gut rips holes in self noisily to counter. Neurochemicals demand cigarette, skin yellows relentlessly to impede pleasure associations. Skin has so far crushed demands for fluid freedom but now the solids have revolted as well, as if ECT'd awake by all this activity the deepdeepDNA is now demanding a violent release of sperm cells rehearsing for some cataclysm that'll never happen if my skin keeps yellowing and teeth keep disintegrating. Why does it do this to me, why!!!?"

• Yes's Tormato -- "The next track is the eyebrow-raiser. First of all it's disco, second of all it's called "Don't Kill the Whale". First the lyrics, of course it's not exactly "Fuck tha Police", but considering both the theme and Anderson's previous (as in 'previous offences', non-Brits), it's done with a surprising amount of deft sarcasm ("In beauty, vision/ do we offer much?"), not cringeworthy at all! Also, Jon sounds like he's singing about something he actually cares about, which has got to be a first for this bunch, well done. I hope they opened and closed the set with it in Japan."
• Kiss's Music from 'The Elder' -- "I don't know whose idea it was to get a band who couldn't play worth a shit and have them do Floyd/Rush epic tapestries with a symphony orchestra, but they definitely got some 'interesting' results. Even better, the lyricists responsible for "Room Service", "Plaster Caster" and "I want to rock and roll all nite and party every day" tackled the themes of good vs. evil and the hero's quest through mystical umm err ahh floopgaloop cosmic chakra satori juju delphic oracles. And the result sounds vaguely Japanese for some reason. Plus there's a lot of weird shit as well!"

All selections of Dave's are his alone! All links to outside sites, that's under their copyright deal. Anything else, I guess that's copyright me, 2004-whenever.