Thurston comes off awfully Drastique here. Is he really so far In the Woods… artistically/career-wise these days that this is what he has to do?

What @laylowmoe and @destructive recovery said.

I misread that as "Dental is a powerful thing" and wondered for a second what dental coverage or oral sex had to do with anything.

I can relate. My own family's not that different. None of the shit that has happened, is happening now or will happen in the future (and this isn't just my drug-addict sister I'm referring to) would be conceivable if anyone knew the first thing about communication.

I myself could have taken or left Reboot (my sisters were bigger fans than I was), but I'll never raise a hand against it, either. It was a deeper and more ambitious show than this article gives it credit for.

They're both on the east coast, if I have my facts straight (which means that this column is posted a little after 1 in the morning their time), so they're sometimes — in Dikachu's case, usually — too drunk by that time to make it in the minute it goes up the way you and I do.

That's not a bad way of looking at it. Sometimes the people posting are on the level and there's no sinister ulterior motive whatsoever, but not taking anything and everything you see there with a Costco-sized tub of salt is asking for it.

As if the kids deserve to have someone like the mother-in-law for a grandmother.

Doesn't Dan make up the acronyms himself half the time?

So it was YOU who did that Kickstarter!

Agreed 100%, although I share Dan's feelings regarding the mother-in-law as well.

Shit like that is one of the many reasons why I never have and never will sign up with Facebook.

Yank Crime is one of my favorite albums, which makes it even more of a shame that I'm not going to be able to make it to the show (short on funds, expecting a callback from an employer around that time, up to my eyeballs in domestic-drama muck, yadda yadda yadda).

I just read the Wikipedia article on the Sybian and the demonstration video on it made it look like a hell of a lot of fun (minor spoiler, though: contrary to my expectations, the presenter never climbs on top of it).

Reading that makes me think about my own school experiences, the shit I couldn't walk twenty feet without catching, the clueless (or worse, agenda-driven) so-called professionals I was frequently left at the mercy of and their talent for misconstruing or failing to recognize what would have been immediately obvious to…

The second half of the first paragraph sums up the ways my own depressive episodes manifest almost to the letter, especially the insomnia and exhaustion/restlessness.

I did that earlier this evening.

Haven't gone in there yet, partly because I only just got online for the first time today maybe half an hour ago and partly because, well, just watching Death to Smoochy last night was discomfiting enough.

I'm going to second the consensus here, with this one personal thought:

As someone with a little sister who has been in a few questionable relationships herself (none of which, as far as I know right now, involved or escalated to domestic violence, but drugs and criminal activity were), I want to co-sign this entire post.