Okay, but what was your saddest, most embarrassing, or most ridiculous concert? I mentioned the Ivory Stixx gig I was forced to see in another post, but I've got another. Some time in the mid-1990s, after The Commitments had been a sleeper hit, someone got the idea to send the band from the movie around on a tour. …

Don't be sorry, those were great stories. I'm laughing at a scene I'm imagining in my head where Larry David meets Black Uhuru, and says something like, "Do you really need 'Black' in front of 'Uhuru'? I mean, with 'Uhuru', it's pretty obvious you guys don't come from Norway."

My first "rock" concert was in 1986, when I was in 6th grade. It was at some church auditorium, where a fake-hair-metal band called Ivory Stixx was playing. They specialized in anti-drug songs. The lead singer was a woman who emulated Ann Wilson of Heart, who had a few top-40 hits at the time. My school took us…

In his mind, he's still Jim Morrison in 1968. In reality, he's showing us what it would be like if Jim Morrison were still with us today.

I am of the opinion that Val Kilmer is a bit self-absorbed and dickish.

I figured he was setting up a joke there, but Marah didn't catch it. I wanted to hear him say something like, "Yeah, I'm a vegan, but I eat bacon. It's called 'Vegan Plus Bacon.'"

"A possum" or "opossum"? And who the hell would ever say "opossum" unironically?

As someone who would really like to make a living as a writer someday, I'm not sure I'm ready to give up on the idea of protected intellectual property. But I do see the inherent contradiction you bring up: if you want it to be distributed widely, it's counterproductive at some level to protect it (thus artificially…

I think lots of artists might go for this, too, because they would rather be rewarded with fame and appreciation than with money.

Very well said.

I have, too. I think it's just a smoke-screen for the drug companies, who naturally want to milk us for all they can. I think drugs could be way cheaper for us and still be free or almost-free in third-world places.

This works on insurance companies, too, when they try to weasel out of paying for your medical procedures. See if there's an insurance commissioner in your state and make a complaint to them. Lots of insurance companies will start acting right pretty fucking quick when an arm of a state government starts acting like…

It just has to have two lines of 5 syllables with a line of 7 syllables in between. It's seriously that simple — but requires a deft and gentle touch to be sublime.

Some of these are better than others:

Of course — you said you were in Sweden. Though some of you do tan really well…

I really think that paradigm shifts in technology alter the ethics of a situation. Before streaming, people basically had the options of either watching something where and when it was broadcast, or watching it on tape, DVD, or DVR. Taping or DVR'ing something at home for your own use was eventually seen as fair…

The preferred nomenclature is Teabaggers, @avclub-ab60729bcbd8293eb5f31e5077c29049:disqus .

Sounds like we 'M'r'c'ns are paying more to subsidize you furriners. Typical socialists, mooching off the responsible people who play by the rules. See what all that socialized medicine and government-funded education gets you? Just a whole society full of people who don't want to pay for what they get. This is…

"He's the author of this article."

I'm no huge fan of the band Rush, but I envy Canadians in that the band is surely their immediate, reflexive association with that word, rather than many of us Americans who hear the word and immediately think of the most horrible hate-radio bloviator of the last quarter-century, who has single-handedly done more than…