I'm with you, Liberal Dude.

You may be right, Schiels—but I still find I enjoy liberal talk radio when I'm driving around. (I'm 30.) I also think it's really necessary as a counterpoint. We used to have two newspapers in Albuquerque, a liberal one and a conservative one, and since the liberal one was crushed, the conservative one has become…

Screw you, Morley, this is a major loss. For all its faults and nonsensical 9/11 truth/New Age leanings, it was a necessary voice, a needed counterpart to the generally far-right AM band. This is a loss!

I just watched that clip, and now I'm sorry for joking about it. Cooper did the right thing, no matter what people who weren't there have to say about it.

A Party Killer
I used to live in this big house in Cambridge, MA, where we would throw these enormous and heavily advertised parties to which the only price of admittance was a bottle of something for general consumption. Tons of fun, and they would sometimes go on for literally days. Once, on Day Two of one of…

Everyone should go to that link and read that report.

Just as long as Anderson Cooper wasn't using the kid as a shield…. Why was only the kid bleeding?

Is that true?

Arcade Fire and Kid Rock in the same breath? Come on.

This guy gets an AV Club obit…
…but not William Lederer, co-author of the amazing and influential book THE UGLY AMERICAN? (JFK proposed the Peace Corps after reading it!)

I love Stacy. No one else's comments make me feel as great.

I loved A WRINKLE IN TIME as a kid, just loved it, but when I re-read it as an adult, I thought it was the worst thing ever, poorly written and a mess.

This sounds like a brilliant parody that needs to be written. Hey, Phodreaw and Ukridge—either of you writers? That's how I make my living, and my older brother writes y.a. fantasy for two major publishers; you should keep thinking about this, and maybe let me know if you need a hand.

Man, that's a typo that's costing me:

Rock and roll. You can always find me through this site.

Love Lester. A little indulgent, a little too obviously Beat-influenced, but man, when he was on…wow. His eulogy of Elvis: some of the best writing EVER.

I don't much like AV Club features in which…
…the writers admit to liking stuff that just sucks, because it really just wrecks their credibility with me for weeks afterward.

"a non-A.V. Club writing project that had me driving across the Southwest."
Keith, if you're ever in the Southwest again for that project—specifically central New Mexico—I am a published Southwestern historian and author (Mike Smith) who would be happy to show you around the little-known-but-amazing ghost towns of the…

There was a really old kid named Mark at my wife's high school—
—where she grew up in Moriarty, New Mexico, a guy who was obviously an undercover narcotics officer, and everyone called him "Marky Narc."

Not bad?! The Boredoms are amazing! The Boredoms at ATP 2009 were among the best live performances I have ever seen—ever—-anywhere—eleven drum sets? Holy hell! A guitar tree played by smashing it with a broomstick? A drummer-bearing dais carried through the audience by worshipful fans?