Honestly, for a resume I would just go with "extensive nipple-burning experience," which is sufficiently ambiguous but still reassuring to my prospective employer. Then when faced with that first nipple I can mention that I'm competent but still request some preceptorship from a mangent-level nipple burner. It seems…

Reviewing this and the hair metal musical? Rabin pulled the short straw, didn't he?

Reviewing this and the hair metal musical? Rabin pulled the short straw, didn't he?

I find it disturbing to consider an era when playing dungeons and dragons was subversive and guns n roses represented a gritty alternative to the other music on the radio.

I find it disturbing to consider an era when playing dungeons and dragons was subversive and guns n roses represented a gritty alternative to the other music on the radio.

Don't worry, I'm 28 and I hated hair metal as a teen, too. Less as an affront to music and more as an affront to metal, but hey, listening to slayer is okay when you're a virgin, right?

Don't worry, I'm 28 and I hated hair metal as a teen, too. Less as an affront to music and more as an affront to metal, but hey, listening to slayer is okay when you're a virgin, right?

Since i don't remember who Billy Corgan was talking about, I'll just assume it was Todd rundgren and kanye.

Since i don't remember who Billy Corgan was talking about, I'll just assume it was Todd rundgren and kanye.

The term for that is perversity. You could probably coin a nice neoligism, but the term is perversity.

The term for that is perversity. You could probably coin a nice neoligism, but the term is perversity.

Huh… In the context of this article, that comment comes across as a bit ironic. But hey, maybe that was the idea.

Huh… In the context of this article, that comment comes across as a bit ironic. But hey, maybe that was the idea.

Your words are a precious gift. Thank you.

Your words are a precious gift. Thank you.

The onion had a headline after that tragedy about weird al honoring his parents with a heartfelt parody of "tears in heaven." Whenever I see weird al turn up on this site, I wonder if he has an opinion on the avclub (gently and lovingly, I'll admit) tweaking the death of his parents.

The onion had a headline after that tragedy about weird al honoring his parents with a heartfelt parody of "tears in heaven." Whenever I see weird al turn up on this site, I wonder if he has an opinion on the avclub (gently and lovingly, I'll admit) tweaking the death of his parents.

pssht, my parents were into the zombies before everyone in the universe was.

pssht, my parents were into the zombies before everyone in the universe was.

i would disagree somewhat on first blood (though i think you're referring to first blood part 2 in your comment).  while rambo: first blood part 2 (and, to all accounts, rambo III and john rambo) was a bloodletting reactionary wet dream, the original first blood was surprisingly subversive in its approach to the…