Drew in my dream

Guitar player Drew is drunkenly driving my car with me as the very tense passenger.  The road has lots of crevasses and sinkholes that he is miraculously avoiding, but it can't be for much longer.  I finally intervene, simultaneously stomping on the brake, grabbing the wheel, and turning off the engine with the keys.  Drew gets angry, opens the door, and instead of entirely getting out, he steps on the bottom of the door, leans on it, and severs it completely off the rest of the car.

Laughing Data

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Laughing Data is recursively funny, in that Spock, ostensibly Data's precursor in the Star Trek pantheon, only laughed in one episode (primarily because he was actively suppressing his human/emotional side, and in that episode, was under the influence of some sort of emotion-enhancing plant), while Data actively sought his ostensibly absent human side, since he was technically all machine.  
As for the comment about Russian novels, having read a few myself (particularly Dostoyevsky), I would like to cite a recent Arts & Letters Daily article that pointed out that Russian politics, often infuriatingly confusing, can be best understood through 19th century Russian literature in Foreign Policy: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/02/27/how_gogol_explains_the_post_soviet_world_and_chekhov_and_dostoyevsky?page=full