Sadly I don't remember the title— it got lost in a move and I haven't been able to find it for a couple years.  It was quite small and part of a series of pocket books that were all introductory guides to a variety of topics.  I'd love to find it again.

I got an amazing book at a used book sale once.  It was a guide to jazz, written to a British audience in the 1920s.  The descriptions of the music had this very baffled but genuinely intrigued tone that was kind of endearing, and at one point the author sincerely proposed that one possible explanation for how people…

Agh, yes, that hit me like a brick wall.  She's not meant to be an expert, but dang, this is not a great time to suggest that everyone who gets an axis II diagnosis is a murderer incapable of feeling, especially on a smart show.  Especially when axis II stuff has such nasty stigma associated with it already. 

Or 1776.  "A committee formed to think, perhaps to do but in any case, to gather, to meet, to confer, to talk and perhaps even to resolve that each rifle regiment be allowed at least one drum and one fife attached to each company, designated as the Drum and Fife Committee."

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That's exactly what I did when I started!  I enjoyed the first two episodes because I love setup, but this one really kicked off the rest of the series for me.

Seconding this. I've never gotten into the full extras-and-blog universe outside the comic, but just going through the archive is such an enjoyable way to spend time.  I'm just glad to have an archive long enough that I don't burn through it all in two straight hours of clicking… it's more like having a book to read a…

I love R&H and musicals in general but I can imagine it would be pretty maddening to devote your life to dramatic theater and have everybody going on about popular and flashy musicals all the time, especially when you have to split resources with them at a joint festival. 

Thanks so much for introducing me to this show.  I meant to follow along weekly (and will) but ended up whooshing through the first two seasons over the past week.  It's made me really, really happy, and I'm very glad that it's being covered because I haven't found anyone in real life who likes Shakespeare enough to…

Serging is one of the most fun things you can do with sewing equipment.  I've run many a scrap of fabric through the serger just enjoying how professional it looks.

Man, none of my bullies were smart and witty.  Now I feel bad about my time in middle school.  Well, worse. 

Everyone should watch Friday Night Lights.  Overall, though, I think Michael and Holly is a better example of subverting the trope.

I know!  Maybe he just didn't know how to do it?  I can buy it as Walt not wanting to have Jesse screw up something else, and if he managed to mess up the RV engine somehow they'd really be out of luck.  Still, though.  The guy who's collapsing in coughing fits should not have to swallow gasoline. 

That wolf just really likes eating people meat!  He's very descriptive about meat, because as a carnivore it's very important to him.

It's a great family show if, like my family, you don't let your kids know there's a second act until they're 15. (And yes, man, I love that song. "You're so nice. You're not good, you're not bad, you're just nice. I'm not good, I'm not nice, I'm just right."

Honestly, I skipped most of 2 and had no problem jumping in.  The Christmas special was nice but reading through the reviews it sure seems like most of 2 went far into fanfiction territory. 

Stanford's probably the one you're thinking of.  Plus some Jane Ellliot blue-eye/brown-eye action. 

I did mine on a TI-86!  It crashed pretty much constantly.  Turns out that's not the best platform for a text adventure. 

He still has a… Danish?…  Wikipedia page, which is very fun to read out loud.  http://da.wikipedia.org/wik… 

I don't know much about non-U.S. countries, and there may be situations in the U.S. in which this doesn't apply (for example, kids can talk to a school counselor before getting explicit parent consent).  I'm not an expert.  But I am pretty sure that with therapy, in anyplace where 18 is the age of medical consent,…