I really only have three phone/text-related complaints:

Do you hear the douchebags sing?

"Like, I look like a dude who has a manifesto. Like, It'll be okay.

Bobby Hill sums up their feelings nicely. (No offence to Bobby Hill, I'd imagine he'd grow up to be a pretty open minded cartoon dude).

Yes, when friends visit they always want to see it. Luckily we take them to a cool bar or two first, then walk them through the thick of it (Often on our way to Dreamie Weenies. Yuuummmmm.) and they get to see the horror of it for themselves. Not to mention, drinks are 900x cheaper anywhere else in the city!

can't we have a female villain who is just, well, evil?

Oh goodie! I get to tell one of my favorite NOLA stories now. I lived there for a few years and wondered why so many born and raised NOLA folk had never lived anywhere else and many had never even left the city EVER. I met a woman who told me a story about the time she tried to leave. She said "I was accepted at…

Lots of people imagine that allowing open containers makes people act like frat boys on every corner of New Orleans. I have lived in NOLA for many years & I actually think that it makes it easier to pace yourself. If you aren't done with your drink, don't chug it before you leave, just throw it in a solo cup and take…

Go cups are the best. Daiquiri stands are the best. The second thing I want to do upon landing in New Orleans on Friday, right after kissing the crap out of my husband in an embarrassingly sappy fashion, is get a strawberry pina colada at the daiquiri stand on Veterans Blvd, because I'm a goddamn American and sugary…

If I had a dollar for every time I walked past a badly-parked car here in NOLA only to see a beer bottle and / or a glass pint glass in the front drink holders....

You. You, I like.

I was eating breakfast at a local joint one time. A couple tables away some schmuck was reading the riot act to one of the waitresses about his food. Now, understand, this place was a nice, cheap local diner. The food was OK but Wolfgang Puck wasn't working in the kitchen. I liked it and never had a bad meal there.…

I can't remember if it's the first or second episode when Larry's in the sauna with his dad and says "I made her come vaginally, do you know how hard that is?" and just felt like he needed to take a running jump immediately.

Thanks, I agree. To me, it's still Piper's story, though I wonder (SPOILERS) how Alex will feel when she finds out it was Piper who gets her thrown back in prison. Hmmmm. Other than that, I loved the whole season. Watched most of it Saturday, and finished Sunday after watching the French Open final. Vee was such a…

The dislike of Piper around here keeps amazing me. I think people project all their shit onto her. Meanwhile, Morello is fucking creepy, ruined a guy's life and attempted to kill his wife and that makes her totes awesome. Ok then. I'm just glad to have a bisexual character that's both complex and interesting and that…

MUCH less Piper. And she's a lot more tolerable now when she is on screen.

Oh, THANK YOU. Thank you A THOUSAND TIMES for that comment.

I think Charlotte's Web, A Wrinkle in Time, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and Little Women were "young adult books" but now considered classics. And sometimes pop-culture turns into high culture if its presence is lasting and has had enough time for analysis.

I love comparing the way people read with how their parents do. My dad loves all of the great Russian authors, but he reads a ton of mass market sci fi. I have dozens of books of spanish poetry and plays, but also piles of shojo manga. So I guess it all works out the same.

he was my middle school history teacher!! proud of him for this article.