The AVC has always been really weird about the header images they pick. Often it seems like they actively seek out minor characters doing uninteresting things. It's like, "this movie's about two brothers getting sucked into a life of crime. I'd better use this picture of their grandmother from the one scene she's in.…

Or he goes through with it and afterward he just feels awful. I mean, he may not like being a virgin, but is "never got laid" really worse than "got laid once, but I had to pay for it?" People with mental illness often seem "broken" and in need of some kindhearted soul to come "fix" them, but usually the experience of…

I would have gone with 'romancing the stone.'

Yeah, an awful lot of the letters he gets pretty much answer themselves. About half the letters he posts aren't honest questions so much as fishing for validation. People want to be told that their kinks are normal, or that their girlfriend/boyfriend was wrong about something, or that it's totally OK to do X in Y kind…

Not enough incest.

That's what he's saying? I never could figure out who was wearing what.

Neil Gaiman looks more like Alan Rickman with each passing year.

You just trolling.

I'm with you. It's definitely REM's weakest album, but it's mostly just really dull rather than outright shitty. There are successful bands that go their whole careers without producing anything better, so it's hardly miraculous. Hell just writing this got me to listen to Leaving New York (which owns) again, so it's…

Dan's been skipping weeks with absurdly flimsy excuses for years. It's basically one of his gimmicks, along with announcing how drunk/hung over he was while writing it and reminding us that he totally nabbed Ann Lander's desk, and, yes, letting his buddies write half the column for him and then plugging (heh) their…

No, the second time was about rats. Actually though I've definitely heard him mention the gerbil thing as something he doesn't feel is worth discussing. As far as I know (and I've only been reading like ten years), he never went in depth about it after this column. He'd just occasionally mention it as a question he's…

Your post pretty well demonstrates how these myths persist. Even though you've never seen it and have no evidence it ever happened, you still "don't doubt" that there are people out there who would do it. Most people are ready and willing to believe the worst about people as long as they're purely hypothetical. After…

Wait wait, that's what papa roach sounds like? I've heard that song dozens if not hundreds of times and it never occurred to me that an actual band produced it. I'd just sort of assumed it appeared fully formed on a modern rock playlist somewhere and no one questioned it.

Yeah, I had no idea. We aren't allowed to have ferrets either. Other states get all the luck.

Man my rat wasn't cute or friendly. Ol Max was this fat surly fucker who would bite the shit out of you if you tried to pet him. At one point he escaped his cage and spent like two months living in our kitchen. When we put him back in the cage he just about went nuts. Rat just wanted to be free as a bird and shit.

You know, I never used a cantaloupe or mayonnaise jar either. The whole idea is kinda gross to be honest. What's wrong with the ol' right hand?

Oh, good to here. I've seen it name dropped so frequently in the last few years, I just sort of assumed it had to be at least decent.

No, human trafficking is real shit. It just isn't something that happens to middle class American girls and rarely involves violent abduction except in war zones. The more typical model is: guy shows up in village, guy tells impoverished peasant family that he'll provide their daughter with an "opportunity" somewhere…

Or anarchists who vote Republican.

Remember all the gold in Fort Knox? Supposedly that's what the US government uses to "back up" our worthless paper money. Now most currencies work fine without any gold reserves at all, and the wealth in Fort Knox hasn't been enough to pay for all the dollars in circulation since, well, ever, but there was a time when…