I was actually an English major at UVA and took several courses with Dr. Woolfork. She is a fantastic professor/all-around badass, and one of her "specialities" is teaching courses on genres that ostensibly have little literary merit and encouraging students to explore and find value in those genres. For example, I…

Well, now that you say that, I should explain it more. It was actually an "our football team is so shitty LOL" joke. But UVA football has actually had several Canadian players recently and even put two in the NFL - Brent Urban this year and Austin Pasztor last year or maybe the year before. Also, our soon-to-be-fired…

Every day New York sounds more and more like somewhere I'd never want to live

YES, SIGN ME UP. And she would have to have some cute catchphrase for the elimination. Maybe pulling the last petal of a flower and saying, "She loves you NOT. KTHNXBAI." Or probably something better than that.

because it is a slippery slope that leads to you planting a flag in the Sahara desert?

I think you're missing a great opportunity here for a reality TV show...

He looks like a poorly put together Henry Rollins cosplay.

This seems like an appropriate time to share this story.

this.

It kind of already is!

I kind of wish this were a series: Lindy West Ruins Movies!

In the eighties, I had to rely on the (relatively) limited collection of pre-printed unicorn stickers to create the perfect Keeper. In the digital age, an hour with Photoshop and some printable vinyl cling could produce a Trapper Keeper embiggened with a unicorn driving a Ferrari.

There should be a "star all comments" feature because all these trapper keeper memories deserve one.

Last year my brother was accepted to grad school at Harvard. Naturally I gave him a Trapper Keeper as a 'first day of school' gift. He says he's the only one on campus who has one. I love that he's cool enough to rock a Trapper at one of our loftier educational institutions.

I had that one too, as well as a plain blue one that I covered with stickers I got in a collection from The Scholastic Book Club.

I need one like this:

They say kids learning to lie at this age is a necessary step in cognitive development. It signals higher thought processes and their intent is not really to deceive but to tell a story how they see it in their heads.

Ice-T's grandson..

I'm having trouble accepting Ice-T as the grandparent of adults.

Guy's Snuffed Camel-boro Dippers