I think that was the moment in "Bender's Big Score" I realized that - to go back to the topic of Fry and Seymour - I didn't want to bring Futurama back into my life. I liked the way I remembered it, and "The Devil's Hands" was the perfect conclusion to the series. I suppose there are good CC episodes but the two or…

My dear Sir:

That's a tough one. I think you should try just being straight-up with him, out of bed over coffee or something, telling him you can't go to work looking and feeling like you fell down the stairs, and you were actually scared for real lasting damage a couple of times. Also he could surprise you and be into switching…

Hinds was in line behind me at Target once. He apparently subsists on bottled water, frozen pizza and cat food. Could account for his vision of the world.

I read it as a tale of overconfident ignorant privileged people swagger into the bones with notions of the Noble Savage and get in way over their heads.

I remember as a kid the Alien poster implied so much dread and creepiness I was scared to see the film. There really was some amazing design going on in the post-war period. Saul Bass, Herb Lubalin, the Pushpin Studios crowd. I'd enjoy an entire book on iconic movie posters.

Clearly I have been going to the wrong Sweden and married the wrong Swede. I've found Swedes overall are super frank about sex, which is exciting until you realize they just aren't hung up on nudity and don't think of sex as dirty. And dammit it's more EXCITING if boobs and sex are "naughty" in my Puritanical American…

Cardigans ain't exactly one-hit wonders. Outside of the US they were and still are immensely big and in fact their later records, especially Gran Turisimo and Long Gone Before Daylight, which are great chilly twisted sugar-and-strychnine pop perfection.

Yeah, it's hard to separate that record from its ubiquity, but if I try to empty my ears and think objectively, holy hell OK Computer is just a flat-out masterpiece. In Rainbows is pretty great though. Funny how people forget Hail to the Thief but I still like it, perhaps because I saw them on that tour and during…

Proving that the most dangerous animal…is The Zookeeper.

I saw them on that tour too, in Atlanta with Pere Ubu. PU were really good, weird and fun. Dave Thomas looking huge and intimidating, singing into a big electric fan (the kind that moves air, not a large person who liked the band.)

Every one of us changes. Every day. Our priorities and hopes and fears and moods are in constant flux, sometimes subtle and sometimes dramatic. It takes real work to adjust so that you can let another's priorities become your own now and then, and when we move, take new jobs, see now people it's nearly impossible.

Maybe approaching with a positive? "Me remembering when we first met. Me so overwhelmed me forge to eat cookies for ten days! Me reminded of why me find you so tasty still."

It slightly bugged me that the restaurant reservations in a parallel universe joke was cribbed so obviously from Douglas Adams' Restaurant at the End of the Universe (which I'm sure was a huge influence on Groening and Cohen when they devised Futurama but, still…)

I suspect she just gave you a ticket to be close and talk. Sometimes these tickets have an expiration date, so my dear Mister Cookie, I suggest you find one little corner of The Problem and gently knock it loose. Then fool around!

Cookie, Missus Rickster and I were in a similar situation. We may still be in this situation but I think things are improving. We've a Little Rickie, and Missus Rickster even goes to a faraway land with the little one in summers as I slave at an allegedly prestigious executive job that has me flying to different…

My straight ex was hit on by women a few times, and it was usually after a friendly second drink with a chaser of "I just don't know about men. Frankly, I think I'm becoming more attracted to womennnnnnnnNN…. ???" and see her reaction.

In a creative writing class, a classmate wrote fairy tale erotica.

Yeah, the logistics are dizzying to contemplate, let alone the morality of that much adultery. I'm old enough to have seen a Miles Davis concert and my lifetime tally of sex partners doesn't begin to approach 20. I really don't give a rat's ass about others do with their nether regions, but the time spent seducing…

That was…interesting. Not what I'd picture as a title or art from the guy who did "Go All the Way."