"I don't suppose it matters which way we go."

But understanding that you are cisgendered requires absolutely nothing of you. "OK, so you are saying I was born a male and remain totally cool with that. That's what you mean when you say cisgendered? Fine." How is that "telling you how to live your life or identity"?

I like to annoy my wife by insisting that Ed was the greatest TV show of all time. It bothers the crap out of her.

The part I don't get: Why would Fennell's friend and/or Fennell think releasing this exchange was a good idea?

Oh yes you do.

Oh sorry, let's see what we can do here.

Heh, the "serious" student keeps largely to himself, looking for truth and personal growth and all that. And then you enter the adult world and realize that it's 1) banal and pointless and 2) run by assholes.

To be fair, freshman year of college is the standard "best friend replacement" period.

No, you can't.

That's more interesting if you think the issue is a valid one and not some pretentious thing Twofer's character was spouting off about as a plot device.

There are really two senses of the word "Classical." There is the narrow music-historical term which applies to Mozart, Haydn, and early Beethoven, and then there is the use of the term that differentiates all of that shit with violins and oboes and shit from other traditions of music.

"IT may be laughable when someone says he gets Penthouse magazine for the articles. It’s no joke when I say I went to the Penthouse Executive Club for the steaks."

Yeah exactly, the combination was better than the sum of its parts.

It goes both ways, though.  If you listen to Horse Tricks you realize how much they benefited from his tunes - without that framework you get formless little puddles of ideas.

I continue to feel bad for Doughty.  That poor, fucked-up, surprisingly talentless bastard.

I think part of the point of sexting is the naughtiness of it, saying something very private through a somewhat public device?  Like "ooh, she's gonna read this at her desk, there will be other people around, et cetera!"

The point she was trying to make is "I am a badass."

Well, they sorta do.  What do you think proselytizing door-to-door is like, most of the time?  The vast majority of people can't wait to get you off of their doorstep, and you know it.  Some people hide inside their homes.  And then when you are done with your day all of this somehow confirms that you are right and…

FWIW the Jehovah's Witnesses believe this as well.  Pretty much any radical protestant sect (i.e. one that is trying to "win" at being scripturally correct and thinks the competing flavors are all satanic ruses) might as well take this line.

What's weird is that Soul Coughing was awesome and Cake is terrible.  They are ostensibly the same recipe but the Cough had much higher quality ingredients.