I still don't love "Madame Bovary." With "Anna Karenina," what other cheating wife novel do you need?

That's interesting. "Catcher in the Rye" and "The Bell Jar" (among other books) always struck me as books you have to read before sixteen to really get.

Yeah, when I saw him live, any doubts I had lingering were completely destroyed. The No Children encore was as close to religious experience as I've had at a concert.

I lumped The Mountain Goats in with all the other bullshit sensitive folk bands my friends listened to in college, but after listening to No Children a few times, I realized they were nothing like that

I moved across the ocean and had to pare down all of my things to two suitcases. :(

If you consider NPR and The Economist, news and politics podcasts seem to be doing just fine.

This seems to be the model Slate's going for, though they aren't an expressly political group. Considering most of their podcasts have been on for years, it seems to be working.

All my pop culture T-shirts were given away in my last move, but I used to have a shirt I stenciled with a picture of Daria wearing a fur hat and standing in Red Square. Sigh.

Yup, it was covered in Outliers a couple weeks ago. I definitely agree with you about how good it is; my middle-school science and history fair projects were better researched that the Stuff You Should Have…series and Radiolab is really This Mildly Science-Influenced American Life.

Pssht, but they like totally jumped up and down afterwards. Rookie mistake.

Why this this show different from all the others?
Why is it on this show we eat only jazz ham but on other nights we eat all ham?

Alternate universe Todd just gave up on Community, after telling us, "…it has potential…" for months on end.

As someone who was forbidden to watch MTV at that age, we just watch it at our friend's house.

Claudia goes on a rampage after her parents discover her candy stash.

Bein' self-reliant!

Paragraph six= "queues" should be "cues"

I got to third base while on a date to see District 9, so I enjoyed it.

As someone who got into an argument about women's day yesterday that will destroy any sexytimes possibility, I salute your awkward moments.

A.I. is the platonic form of "movie that should have ended 30-45 minutes before it did."

I loved my college radio station, even though maybe 30-50% of the shows were just hipster rock. I used to have a show that played mostly non-anglophone pop, rock, and metal.