That is awesome! I remember when MTV had the parody boy band 2Gether, and they would actually perform live concerts on MTV with screaming fans, and I thought. “These fans know that this group is meant to be a joke, right?” Eh, maybe the screaming fans were paid extras, I don’t know.

I only heard of the genocide through reading a memoir about it 15 years ago, when I was in high school. The only other times I’ve heard it referenced in the U.S. is in the movie The Killing Fields, Angelina Jolie’s activism in Cambodia and her adoption of her son Maddux, and the Dead Kennedys’ song “Holiday in…

This was well-written, and very respectful of the country. I learned about the war in Cambodia about 15 years ago, through reading a memoir written by a survivor entitled First They Killed My Father. Her name is Loung Ung, and she was five when the Khmer Rouge took over, and she suffered malnutrition and the deaths of…

Thanks, I thought that was Aubrey Plaza.

That is a good point about not rushing things. My mom suggested I go to Europe with a tour group, but I don’t want to be rushed along or stuck in a group the whole time. I also remember kids from my 8th grade class who went to Paris (they were in a French language class), and they came back saying everyone was snobby…

That is a good point. I want to go on a European vacation this fall (visiting London, Paris, and Amsterdam), and as I’ve never been overseas, I don’t want to wander too far into unfamiliar neighborhoods or potentially annoy locals, me being a tourist and all. A good friend of mine said it’s good to get a little lost…

I saw Heavy Metal Parking Lot several years ago, and did laugh when a metalhead woman in the lot goes, “Rob Halford? Yeah, I’d do him.” :)

Even after Merlan apologized for her errors in reporting the UVA hoax, she still wrote an article where she insulted a fellow journalist who found holes in Emma’s story, being dismissive and calling the journalist a liar. So she didn’t learn anything from the UVA hoax, and likely this story will prove her wrong again.

Yeah, really. I couldn’t stand the T.V. show, but I’m still not going to make fun of someone who took their own life, especially at such a young age.

I haven’t been able to do any international traveling, other than going to Montreal on my own in 2008 for a long weekend (and I live in NY, so the train ride was only 8 hours). I often didn’t make much money at my jobs, and whatever I saved kept going to health insurance bills, transfers to my checking account when my…

That is just awful and horrible. I wish the best for his family and friends during this time.