So. I mean. What?

Yeah, there’s been at least one other letter like this, and each time, I think Dan misses the idea that this might be a job for a mental health professional rather than a sex advice columnist. Because if you can figure out what the toys are used for, you can figure out that your mom and/or dad are using them. That’s…

I’m very disappointed in Dan. I mean, he’s right, that LW#3's boyfriend should run, run, run, and never look back. But DEMANDING INSECURE CAPS BOY? He’d rag on a letter writer for two paragraphs for missing the obvious acronym there. How about DEMANDING INSECURE CAPS KID?

that Emmanuelle Béart is breathtakingly beautiful and radiates compassion makes Auteuil’s indifference all the more perplexing. get with it dude, you’re not bad lookin in a Gallic way, but she’s way out of your league, is what we all resisted the urge to yell at the screen.

Maybe, probably both? I’m thinking the casting of Emmanuelle Béart as the “pursuer” and not the one being pursued adds a lot to the audience’s disconnect with Stéphane.

At the time, I remember N’Sync always having more of a defined frontman in Justin than the Backstreet Boys, who were a more balanced ensemble, ever had.
I mean, this how the video to their first single starts:

I have been in contact with numerous working musicians with long-term drug problems. At any given moment, they can’t carry on a conversation, but they do shows just fine. As soon as they step off the stage, they’re pretty lost. I’m not saying Spears has a drug problem, but there are people who can just turn it on for…

I think it’s possible that two things can be true: that Britney is mentally unwell enough to need a conservatorship and that Jamie Spears doesn’t have her best interests in mind.

As the doc nicely put it he's been slut shaming his way to the top since 1998.

I didn’t mention them since they came out roughly at the same time as or after Britney (No Doubt and Garbage absolutely count though, as their respective singers were like 95% of their marketing)

Whoa, wait - Reznor had a hand in Old Town Road? That’s crazy - and cool!

Yeah if you look at Reznor and Manson’s path after the 90s, I think Trent was trying to be less of a “shock” musician and grow as an artist and person. I mean he cut his hair and got all buff! Manson seems to be stuck in the 90s and just can’t find his way out.

Plus Reznor has normal person cred with Johnny Cash covering his work and prior collaborations with David Bowie.

I mean, it’s always kind of unclear with these goth/horror metal people how much they are genuinely creepy and how much is just performance art and kayfabe. Like, if you took Rob Zombie’s act literally you’d think he was a serial killer but he seems like a relatively chill guy in person.

Despite all his rage, he is still holding cats on this page.

I can’t think of Trent Reznor without thinking of his totally gracious and starstruck response to Johnny Cash’s cover of his “Hurt”. I obviously don’t know the guy, but I have to imagine that helped him along in a serious way.

Don’t get me wrong, this is absolutely what should have happened, but as a ‘90's kid, it’s kinda surreal to think that what finally got Manson dropped from his label was a domestic abuse allegation in 2021.

The engagement thing is baffling to me. Like, is the expectation that this guy will come out before the wedding? Or is he supposed to come out by introducing his co-workers to his husband? Or is he just going to show up at the company Christmas party like, “Sorry, my wife has a headache again. But my ‘former roommate’…

I feel like the sad thing in Fiance’s case is that all those people he’s lying to almost definitely know he’s gay anyway. I hope it works out.

I was in the same boat. 27 years married, 2 kids. No signs of appreciation, affection or even basic kindness. When I was around 48 or 49 I remember thinking “Is this it? Am I going to die without another passionate kiss? Another heart-felt hug? Another emotionally intimate datenight?”. I even wrote Dan about it once. I…