All Shoutbox conversations are like that. At any given moment, whatever's happening there is deeply confusing. It's just nice to be part of the confusion once in a while.

Ha..thanks, that was great.

It's not a website! It's an alcoholic whale!

"Honkys" is actually a banned word there, so please do control your witty banter.

It is the way he does it.

I agree! Dunham is in no way suicidal. But I feel like she gets some of her sense of humor and style from Plath. Plath is an archetype for a whole generation of self-aware, slightly weird, super smart women who are out in the world. (And before Plath, Dorothy Parker, and before that, Edith Wharton, and it's turtles…

It's pretty good, in that sort of "Following several people who participate in whatever this documentary's about" structure that so many documentaries seem to take.

No, actually it's really fun to be a Sox fan in NYC. I catch a ton of shit, of course, but never in mean spirit. I think it might actually be more fun to be a Sox fan here than it was in Boston.

I picked it up blind too, which is my favorite way to pick up books. And yeah, mostly to impress chicks. Are you impressed yet, chicks? No? Shit.

Is that a ballerina?

Yes you can!

Man, I wasn't gonna go to your funeral until just now.

I DEMAND MANLY RAINBOWS

Shit!

Binged? You Binged it? Really? Why didn't you just Google it?

Hey guys! I wear a Red Sox hat all the time here in NYC, so lately I've been getting a lot of questions about the World Series. On Sunday, here's what I didn't say: "Actually, instead of watching the game I watched First Position, a documentary about ballerinas."

Really? Huh, bummer. I felt like when I read Bell Jar I was seeing the blueprint for a whole generation of women writers.

Well, it should have been.

Hey, I kinda dug that trailer! Was that, um, the guy from Friday Night Lights as the Winter Soldier?

I've only read Blood Meridian and The Road; I'm trying to think if there are any women in either book who don't get raped. Not really?