Going Out for a Pack of Smokes: the Physically Absent Father's Guide to Financial Freedom.

"Thousands tortured and murdered in El Salvador and Guatemala by U.S. trained death squads."

@ No One Cares: My trailer-park-living mother-in-law hands me articles from magazines, too, but they are mostly about these amazing space heaters that the Amish build.

It's because her husband is a Jew. He's used to pushy, shrewish, controlling women. Ha ha, just kidding, Jews! I love you all! Thanks for your irreplaceable contributions to science and the arts!

Oh wait, I think he meant "striped."

AVC did a story on the Louvin brothers in 2009, in the Nashville or Bust section.

The minvan came out at exactly the same time as National Lampoon's Vacation. I remember seeing Chevy Chase's enormous station wagon in that movie and thinking, "Is that what a minivan is?"

Nathan, if you want to generate more comments you should include something about fast food. That always seems to get lots and lots of people interested in expressing their opinion. In the future, when you do a series on classic R&B or whatever, couple it with fast-foiod reviews, thus:

Thanks for the series. The whole reason why I started regularly reading the AV Club was this column, just so I could argue with people about whether "I Will Always Love You" is an inherently evil song, like Jeffery Dahmer, or just one that was well-intentioned and later became evil because of bad influences, like…

I don't think he is that snarky most of the time. Especially on his podcast, where callers can ramble seemingly endlessly about some stupid problem, and you're just waiting for the call to end so Dan can rip them a new asshole. And then he comes on and says, "I can kind of sense that you can have some diffculty making…

I too think a lot of the hype around unusual recording venues is bullshit dreamed up for press releases. However, there is an elusive quality to really good music. Even if the notes you play night after night are basically the same, sometimes it just comes together in a way that you dream about capturing for…

What the fuck does a god-damned cat know, anyway? Meow meow meow, puke. Meow meow meow, puke. That's about all I ever hear from them.

He looks like he just swallowed Seth Rogen whole.

That shit was hot ALL the way through. Holy fuck.

My favorite AV Club verb: "helm." Helm helm helm helm. This movie was helmed by this guy, that show is helmed by that other thing, everybody's helming away like god-damned monkeys, helming each other's helms until no more helming can possibly be helmed.

Ya can't take 'er down to the pub, she's a bit of an 'ound
And ya can't get her lemonade when you're buyin' a round
But she nails you to the floor at a quarter to four
She can bite like an whore
she can talk to you poor
And she BANGS like the shithouse DOOR when the plague's in town!

His neck looks like an unroasted turkey.

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So is there going to be a Comics Panel again? Have you had one since Pierce left and I just missed it? Or is it going the way of Metal Box… oh I think I'm going to cry.

No, go ahead. Get high, too.