I'm an old-timer myself, probably been reading since about 2002 when they didn't even have comments. Today the comments section is probably 80% of the reason I come here, and I find more and more I'm just scrolling right to the comments! As far as them making money, I completely accept that what this place has become…

This seems like a good opportunity to discuss how downhill this place has gone, and I'm not sure how much longer I can keep coming around just out of habit. The End of the Year lists used to be a big event they took seriously. This one seems rolled out with almost no fanfare and is limited to 15 albums, and I wonder…

So if I find some addict downtown and proceed to sell them heroin every day, I have zero culpability because like free will and stuff? Will that defense work at my trial?

I can't say I think it's so great. If he actually was a murderer running a drug empire, and was pistol whipping people and being re-incarcerated well into the period of time one would expect him to have turned his life around (i.e. 57 years old), it seems truly bizarre to bring him into a story he inspired as a…

Not to be derivative, but how about Generation Shark Week?

Well his use of it is particularly disturbing since it implies the women's breasts are somehow twisting in place 360 degrees (or more!)

In my high school no one listened to anything outside the main stream, except the metal heads. If it wasn't on MTV or the radio no one talked about it. I graduated in '97 though, and indie rock hadn't had the huge surge yet that the internet enabled. I suppose it's so easy to find new music these days that things have…

I am blown away that high school kids were listening to Andrew Bird or Animal Collective.

Who knows, but there must be a psychology post-grad here who can make an interesting thesis out of it.

What's up with the commentariat here? There are a lot of people who regularly shit on themselves and talk about how worthless they are. Go get a trade ticket or go to nursing school or something.

I actually do think you are right, it's just fun to think that maybe she was fucking with us.

Yes, but not for the laughing thing. That's probably the least worst thing you've done this week.

I think I found it so intriguing because it was written by a woman. It's not normally the type of subject tackled in the way it was ( with sensitivity, nuance, and romance), and I definitely enjoyed it. She also did a great job of building up the impending dread as the hostages all get drawn deeper into their…

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Adams is a well known internet troll, he's been doing this forever.

Can we also talk about the abortion that is the criticism of Was (Not Was)'s Walk the Dinosaur? That shit is dope, that whole album is dope, and the song actually makes more sense in the context of the whole album.

It's biggest problem was in gradually favoring parody over satire, and therefore threatening to become as lazy as Family Guy. For example, did we really need a Minority Report spoof?

Franzen's tradmark writing style as far as I can tell is to make 50% of the story rote exposition.

I believe Freddy Quimby should walk out of here a

The cast are gathering in Las Vegas for Phoebe and Joey's wedding. Most of the storyline is about how fat Chandler has gotten.