He's pandering to his base.  I'm sure Hank Williams Jr. fans are in complete agreement and are outraged that ESPN has persecuted him for expressing his beliefs, as a free American.

Anything by Dawes.  Anything.

Whatever it is, this thing has legs.  Four months, going strong.
And if it's good old American contrarianism that's driving it, I say AMEN.  Don't you fucking tell me what's good!  Mocking good stuff is what built this country!

Sean is right.  Alcohol and nudity were made for each other.  These mormons take the fall of man far too seriously.

That's not the tragedy of it.  That's part of the hilarity of it.  If it's true they're any good, that is.  Which I doubt.

Like so many who were late to the Dawes meme.

Damn you disqus!  Let me like @avclub-50e9ea9c1bc5e6067ab7c0d8fbdd5f21:disqus comment more than once!

Excellent synopsis, J.J.

Yeah I don't follow you.  She shut it down in 86 and sold it 8 years later?  What does that mean?  Somebody paid her for a defunct business?

That NPR blog says she sold Sugar Hill in 1994.  Rabin says it shut down in 1986.

The 1780s.

"She was unmistakably an innovator and a trendsetter in male-dominated fields but mainstream success came at a steep price. "
What was the steep price?  That her label shut down amid lawsuits and ill-will?  That's not very steep.

You're extrapolating your failure.  It's a natural reaction to being outed as a tool, but don't blame the meme.  It was your delivery.

More Dawes, please.

Yeah she's been single for years now and Uncle Jack says her ex-husband swears she's a lesbian.

Sex with Dawes makes as much sense to me as eating God.

That used to be me.  My identity used to be multiple identities, shifting effortlessly with my moods.  Registering robbed me of that, and even though I have a couple of registered identities, I am still somehow less a man than I was.  I was proud to be an unregistered jagoff.

She is a nasty pig.

I think it would be funny if you did a Dawes search and EVERY AV Club piece after June 2 came up because they're mentioned in the comments so often.

Okay, that's a more reasonable number.  I never bothered to vote, because I pretty much never watch one of these all the way through.