I somehow got into Big Star bass-ackwards: I saw Chilton open for the Swimming Pool Qs in the late 80s and then got Third. Later I got the first two LPs, but in my mind they are a creaking, ghostly, beautiful mess of melody and mood, not the fine power-pop band that made the lovely September Gurls.

You're looking at my Way Huge® Swollen Pickle™ aren't you?

I see some overlap between age play and cuckolding and probably the majority of sex people classify as kinky. Isn't it all fundamentally about wanting to shed an obligation or status (say, being a responsible adult or being alpha male) and shift that to your partner(s) in a fun, naked, orgasm-y setting? It's even not…

"According to reports, this was intended to encourage them."

That's a tricky one. I think any good sexual relationship is a sort of Venn diagram of desires and you do what overlaps, with maybe a little grit-your-teeth-and-smile just outside your preferred areas, being GGG.

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That is absolutely delightful. I'm not usually into kitsch, but I'd read the ever-loving' shit out of that on a long plane trip.

This is going to be a quote bonanza, and I don't have a single quote. But man, this episode to me summed up the Simpsons when it all clicked: Homer's desire to be a good family man despite his weaknesses was the real emotional fulcrum of the show. When he gave notice during the assault on Globex's headquarters, it was…

I'm still getting adjusted to Tim Minchin as a beloved figure in mainstream musical theater. Yeah he is brilliant, but if you've head the Pope song, or Thank You God, you wonder why religious folk aren't picketing every performance of Matilda and Groundhog Day. I always figured he was too caustic for major stardom.

Yeah, exactly. A lyric in a song, like an action in a movie, is not inherently "bad." Look at context. Murder and smoking and Hitler and fetishization of a particular ethnicity are not nice, but they exist and they are referenced in art as part of the conflict driving a story. It's not like Weezer are Skrewdriver.

The '96 games were good for Atlanta. I don't recall the city having to build piles of new arenas, and people still use the Centennial Olympic Park. In fact, I think it raised the city's profile quite a bit, as the metro area has doubled in population since then. Probably would've doubled anyway, but some companies…

Cardigans have not made one bad album. What a weird band: brutally despondent lyrics over earworm melodies, against instrumentation that sounds like a pop band playing disco arrangements of country music on thrift-store instruments. I love them, and singing into Nina's mic at Tambourine Studios in Malmö was a pretty…

It's strong, really. More atmospheric and bleak than their 90s output, but strong, and they're a great live bend.

She's great! She also happens to be a dead ringer - albeit maybe ten years older - for my wife, who also is a singer from Sweden. Thus proving that time travel exists.

She's a really creative musician but one of my friends is Sinhalese and was working in the Colombo Central Bank when it was bombed by the LTTE. 91 people were killed. So not a big fan of the Tamil Tigers she holds so near and dear.

While I understand your queasiness with Dan's regular "Monogamy, are you sure?" angle, I think PaganPoet makes a good point. Dan doesn't really attack monogamy, but he does address what I think is an issue with it. In a monogamous relationship, there is a chance one of the two is either not quite monogamous or has…

For a brief, shining moment in 1986 I was relevant, as my band opened for the Descendents. We were scared to death of them. They wore diapers on stage and were loud and powerful, while we really WERE bespectacled nerds. I'm glad they never seemed to lose their way musically: it's a rare band that can at once mature…

I honestly read that as "biophobia" and had a sinking feeling that I had NO idea what the cook kids were talking about. Bi-phobia? Seriously? That seems, yeah, astonishingly narrow-minded for him but I'm sure Dan would say it was mininterpreted.

For some reason I read your comment in the voice of David Mitchell. You ARE David Mitchell, aren't you?

It's not that difficult to thrust one's penis head against a rectum when aiming for the vulva. If the moment is of the "Frantic urgent pounding lust" flavor, or there's a new and exciting angle or position, or of there's bee a request for a rough quicky, you might not aim perfectly, particularly if your hands are…