I'd argue the reason Heartbroken had to ask the question is not because she lacks assertiveness, but that she's been blindsided by something so massive, it's justifiably left her uncertain and reeling.  She's not reaching out for permission, she's reaching out because she's hurt and disoriented and needs to…

I anonymously post on the internet.  Where's my Spacemonkey Mafia commemorative cat/porn Tumblr meme?

My wife heard an an interview with Xenia Rubinos on Weekend Edition and became so agitated, she's been talking about it all week until she finally made me listen to it.
   Given her description, I was expecting some hyperactive, twee, woman-child who was all tinkly affectation and unusable performance art degree.
 …

The entire time I read the books, I knew Robb's death was a given.  He wasn't a POV character and the narrative of his military success and paladin righteousness was just written too valiantly to not be cut down by the rules of Martin's very bleak world.  It was telegraphed early and loudly.
   That said, it didn't…

Worst case scenario and I become separated from my daughter in a nocturnal city of iron and brine, ruled over by an insane,decrepit, dream-thief, I really, really hope a francophied Ron Perlman is the first person she comes across.   I loves Ron Perlman.  That guy just seems like the best.

I originally misread the title as controversial documentary, and was all like "Oh, my yes.  Let's get these two kittens together and watch the fur fly!  Meeeooooowwww!"

Right on.  I'm happy to hear it.  Are the new 52 titles that started off strong still holding up?

Though I hear writers are still having a difficult time writing good Wonder Woman stories.
   Maybe they just need to take her back to the Bizarre magazine picture essays of her origins.

I wish I could tell you.  Every time I think I'd like to get back into superhero comics, I hear something like "…Jubilee no longer has her mutant powers and is now a vampire…" and I realize I just can't do it.

I do love Rogue in her hooded Nehru jacket.  I appreciate that her character has always had a pragmatic approach to outerwear, though that's still no excuse for a rolled-sleeve bomber jacket.
   Also, at what point does going mohawk loose it's liberating efficacy if Storm does it every time she faces some personal…

I'm here!  I'm queer!  Now I'm over here!

Maybe on a sliding scale with one end being him rolled down the street mounted on a St. Andrew's Cross, wearing a catheter and a zipper hood, this is subtle.

But you can stream that excellent four-hour slideshow of Ottawa's greatest maple leaves.

Thanks, Taft.

My daughter is currently out of the Dora portion of her show rotation, so we haven't had to tell her yet that Boots and Swiper have gone to live on a farm upstate, where they can teach basic matching and bi-lingual skills as loudly and deliberately enunciated as they want with all the other footwear-bearing primates…

Of all the hypothetical, potential internet friendships I've ruined over the years, @avclub-85b0faa88b92483cbe957df7eb9602cd:disqus , yours is the one that hurts most.

 Having grown up in a small town and now living in a mid-sized city, I think that's pretty much good advice for anyone.

As a straight man and a graphic designer, Dan is the best thing going for that cover.  Especially his biceps.
   Dan is fallible in his advice, as are all of us, but I think the hatred toward him has metastasized into it's own thing, devoid any longer of any actual relationship to the man himself.

'Bersion' is the Greek Orthodox 'version'.  Unlike it's western European counterpart, it's only used in really unconnected comparisons.  Like comparing two essayists simply because they're both gay men.

And I've met some trope Danny's.  They're all ideal young Irishmen gone off to fight for the Motherland, only to discover the futility and madness of war -at a price.