Thank you Mr. Handlen (and Mr. VanDerWerff), you're capability to wrangle the profound to allow others to more fully understand the medium you devote your time to has very genuinely effected my own writing for the better. The TV writing on The AV Club has probably effected how I process culture more than anything else…

And I never noticed
The curve of your trunk

I heard that Clerk had a stroooooooookeeeeeee.

I went Trick or Treating with friends in 9th grade, and it was easily one of the worst nights of my life. High School was incredibly shitty, so life already felt kind of worthless. The friends I was seeing were my closest friends (and they didn't go to my school, which made me even more depressed, more frequently) and…

I have to think the Alliance is going to frown on this.

Another name for The Rake Effect I like (and is easier to explain to the woefully unSimpsonsified) is the Rule of 19s (sort of dubbed by Chris Hardwick when he was on Harmontown)

Another name for The Rake Effect I like (and is easier to explain to the woefully unSimpsonsified) is the Rule of 19s (sort of dubbed by Chris Hardwick when he was on Harmontown)

Ben Acker and Ben Blacker, certainly!
(Pete Holmes, Matt Besser, Todd Glass, Stop Tacoman)

Ben Acker and Ben Blacker, certainly!
(Pete Holmes, Matt Besser, Todd Glass, Stop Tacoman)

Dear Will,
I would all kinds of very much certainly want to listen to that a lot.
Please

Dear Will,
I would all kinds of very much certainly want to listen to that a lot.
Please

I thought the C-3PO was supposed to be a Sleeper reference

I thought the C-3PO was supposed to be a Sleeper reference

HARMONTOWN! Seriously, I would write those myself.
(I also second Improv4Humans)

HARMONTOWN! Seriously, I would write those myself.
(I also second Improv4Humans)

(If that record store sounds interesting to anyone, it's called Logan Hardware.  And it's indeed, very fun)

(If that record store sounds interesting to anyone, it's called Logan Hardware.  And it's indeed, very fun)

Shows I would watch:
-Jesse/Hank's boss's moustache solving mysteries in the Crystal Ship

Shows I would watch:
-Jesse/Hank's boss's moustache solving mysteries in the Crystal Ship

No Spider?
Ralph Fiennes is at his inarticulate best in that movie.