You're saying he's so virile his super-sperm plowed their way through the latex and impregnated his lover anyway?

I remember lurking around here back when sconn basically went totally fucking ballistic at Art Spiegelman because Art Spiegelman didn't feel like taking time out of his day, for free, to help sconn promote his comic.

I remember lurking around here back when sconn basically went totally fucking ballistic at Art Spiegelman because Art Spiegelman didn't feel like taking time out of his day, for free, to help sconn promote his comic.

Hello! ma baby
Hello! ma honey
Hello! ma ragtime gal
Send me a kiss by wire
Baby, ma heart's on fire!

Hello! ma baby
Hello! ma honey
Hello! ma ragtime gal
Send me a kiss by wire
Baby, ma heart's on fire!

And the pop music/classical music distinction has pretty much always been around, and it's always been the case that "young music" vs. "old music" is a generational thing rather than a stage-of-life thing — people tend to imprint on the music they like as young adults and pretty much like it their whole lives. I don't…

And the pop music/classical music distinction has pretty much always been around, and it's always been the case that "young music" vs. "old music" is a generational thing rather than a stage-of-life thing — people tend to imprint on the music they like as young adults and pretty much like it their whole lives. I don't…

What really disappoints me is how the headline sparked a vain hope in me that, as a nebbishy Jewish writer dude from Jersey, Joel Stein might feel some spiritual kinship with the great Jack Kirby and might be aware of the calls to boycott The Avengers to shame Marvel Comics for the utterly shoddy way they treated one…

What really disappoints me is how the headline sparked a vain hope in me that, as a nebbishy Jewish writer dude from Jersey, Joel Stein might feel some spiritual kinship with the great Jack Kirby and might be aware of the calls to boycott The Avengers to shame Marvel Comics for the utterly shoddy way they treated one…

I'm pretty sure all of the chest-thumping neo-machismo trendy trash culture out there is by people who are pretty obviously not very macho in the traditional sense and are defensive and overcompensating over it — and when called on this fact, play the irony card. ("It's *ironic* asshole misogyny because I'm actually a…

I'm pretty sure all of the chest-thumping neo-machismo trendy trash culture out there is by people who are pretty obviously not very macho in the traditional sense and are defensive and overcompensating over it — and when called on this fact, play the irony card. ("It's *ironic* asshole misogyny because I'm actually a…

It still comes across to me as the logic of a bully; he's pissed that when you talk smack about some group these days that group can respond to you directly, instead of that group being a scattered disorganized minority who just has to seethe in silence while the mainstream audience chuckles and goes "Yeah, those…

It still comes across to me as the logic of a bully; he's pissed that when you talk smack about some group these days that group can respond to you directly, instead of that group being a scattered disorganized minority who just has to seethe in silence while the mainstream audience chuckles and goes "Yeah, those…

Joel Stein built a career on making jokes about boobs in middlebrow publications.

Joel Stein built a career on making jokes about boobs in middlebrow publications.

Joel Stein of all people doesn't have a leg to stand on when talking about trash culture vs. high culture — his humor column has always been filled with lame jokes, low blows and the kind of smug "How 'bout that airline food, huh? Why does it taste so bad?" humor-from-ignorance that makes the stereotypical stand-up…

Joel Stein of all people doesn't have a leg to stand on when talking about trash culture vs. high culture — his humor column has always been filled with lame jokes, low blows and the kind of smug "How 'bout that airline food, huh? Why does it taste so bad?" humor-from-ignorance that makes the stereotypical stand-up…

Who defines what precisely constitutes "an adult life"? I know some ridiculously erudite scholarly people who do nothing but listen to classical music, read ancient mythology and write esoteric papers about cultural criticism. Many of these people, as a result of this, have chosen a life that means they will long…

Who defines what precisely constitutes "an adult life"? I know some ridiculously erudite scholarly people who do nothing but listen to classical music, read ancient mythology and write esoteric papers about cultural criticism. Many of these people, as a result of this, have chosen a life that means they will long…

It takes a tremendous amount of cojones to come right to the AV Club, Internet haven for tweedy intellectual discussions dissecting comic books, video games and Saved by the Bell, and say flat-out that you "cannot gain anything useful" from pop culture as opposed to reading ancient Greek tragedies.