My high school didn't even have a prom the whole time I was there – every year there would be a prom committee and they'd put all this time into planning the thing, then the tickets would go on sale and no one outside the committee would buy one.

Well, that's a dealbreaker.

I bought a 50-pack of double rolls yesterday (it was more cost effective that way!) and felt like a filthy animal with this giant bale of TP perched atop my cart, like everyone was thinking "this guy here, this is a guy who poops a lot".

I loved this episode when it first aired and as time goes by I look back at it as the moment I stopped loving Homer Simpson as a character but a lot of that is hindsight – I think it took a few more years before "Jerk-ass Homer" replaced classic Homer.

Thanks a lot asshole!

Exactly. Nothing's more sympathetic than a politician with cancer (see Canada's Jack Layton as a recent example). Last thing we want to see is Palin become a martyr.

I'm more curious about the breaking of one's foot on one's wedding night. There's GOT to be a good story there.

We're actually listening to "Hello" by Poe in my office right now.

Yeah, Canada has a slightly different take on it since a lot of the shameful stuff isn't so overt (no slavery, but natives were treated just as badly here as in the US) and our history is even more boring (and more complex in a lot of ways with the whole Quebec distinct culture thing) but that struggle to settle a…

Gotta side with FLAG on this one because holy shit, Stephen Egerton and Bill Stevenson playing in a band fronted by Keith Morris.

I've never read Indian in the Cupboard (or seen the movie, for that matter), but any mention of it makes me smile because I once called one of my idiot friends and he answered the phone with a groggy "fuck off I'm having an Indian in the Cupboard dream" and hung up on me. When i mentioned it to him later he didn't…

Nice! I still have my copy of "A Picture For Harold's Room" which I've just now learned was a sequel to "Harold and the Purple Crayon" and not just an alternate title for the same book. Great, simple illustrations and a pretty cool exploration of imagination and creativity.

We read some of them in school when I was in 4th grade – we did a whole unit on pioneer life, including spending a week going to "school" at Black Creek Pioneer Village in the north end of Toronto. We weren't allowed to wear any "modern" clothes – had to be collared shirts or sweaters for boys and I think girls had to…

@avclub-8dd007f4a97be79c135c67999bf5b27e:disqus That's why that name sounded familiar! He's the cunt who knocked out Tomas Kaberle!

Hmmm, I have a thrift store copy of The Fourth Hand at home I've been putting off reading and strangely now I kind of want to read it.

My daughter's a big fan of Dr Seuss' ABCs, which apparently belonged to me as a kid but I don't remember ever seeing before she was born and my mom retrieved a bunch of my old books from storage.

The Sneetches was/is my favourite too… and it's not about conformity so much as tolerance – after all of Sylvester McMonkey-McBean's shenanigans the Sneetches realize that discriminating against one another for belly stars or the lack thereof is ridiculous.

Great literature and incredible artwork. Besides the obvious stuff like the amazing design of the Wild Things and the line work, I've only recently noticed (while reading it to my two year old) other details like the way the ocean is painted – that's a master class right there on capturing moving water.

Yep, when I was about 8 my dad (who never got us surprise gifts) brought home "The Film Book of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of The Rings" after seeing it in a discount bin somewhere because he knew my older sister and I had played Dungeons and Dragons with our neighbours and were really into wizards and shit.

I'm giving you a "like" for Persona Au Gratin but I'm not happy about it.