I loved the eclecticism of Couples in Trouble. That shift from the old-time Appalachia of the opening to the WTF string arrangements on "Anything for Love" to the electrified British folk-rock of "Dancing on the Ashes." Damn, that's a great album.

She does have some blazing download speeds. She puts the broad in broadband!

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I'll give you a topic: A mixtape is neither a mix, nor a tape. Discuss.

I like how San Francisco show is happening in Oakland.

Splashdance was definitely essential to me for a couple months as a 4-year-old. Also, my mom was good friends in college with the guy who wrote "You Can Always Be No. 1." I'm pretty sure the message was, "Even if you're an uncoordinated fuck-up at athletics"—which I most certainly was, even at that young age—"you're…

Ah, the Roaring '10s, a.k.a. the Mer-Decade.

You guys go ahead and keep clinging to your gender-centric approach to mer-culture, ignoring the very existence transgender mer-community.

Counter-counterpoint: Ratatouille is my favorite Pixar film.

I can assure you that if you were a 7-year-old cat lover in the mid-'80s, there's a good chance that you memorized all the lyrics to Cats—up to and including all 10 minutes of "Growltiger's Last Stand"—and that they're still bouncing around up there in your brain, occasionally surfacing so that you find yourself…

@avclub-a14343d7aea171bddd5aa6b80e500fd3:disqus Well, you could always do the previous line as "She wants to hug me."

Bag of Boners?

I get it. DICKS-on.

You know what rhymes with "hug me"? Thuggee.

I think I've just made a moral error.

You turn that thing off, and we are not gonna be held responsible for what ever happens. My friend, don't be a jerk.

Or half of a 2 bed/1 bath bungalow in the Bay Area!

We've secretly replaced the fat dick Necrobutcher usually sucks with Evil Dick. Let's see if he can tell the difference.

The AV Club used to have more fun when handing down harsh reviews. Dowd may be spot-on as far as his criticism goes, but my reaction tends to be "oh boy, here we go" rather than "hee hee, good one." They just seem more—oh lord, forgive me—dowdy. And that's fine, I suppose. Not every reviewer needs to, can nor should…

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