i was the right age for what was either the golden age of heavy metal or its hair-sprayed demise, depending on whether Metallica or Warrant was number 1 on DialMTV.

the thing is, and bowlweevils has phd in psychology, the people who are dumb don't really know it because they don't know what smart is.

nope, correct, renaissance italian-style.

me too.

exactly. like i'm an asshole and a shithead. it just depends on who you ask, mom or dad. but trust me, i'm both!

Thanks for introducing me to this Nine Inch Nails guy! Where can I find more of his stuff?

I have not heard this album, and have nothing to say directly about Courtney Barnett, but, damn, grade inflation!

Also, not having read the book since it was assigned reading when I was 12, well nigh 30 years ago, and not being from a small southern town full of racial tensions, I did not know Atticus Finch was the default male role model. Then again, I also don't understand why people give a crap about The Great Gatsby or The…

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no dissertations needed for getting the JD.

well that's generally how it's done. got me a phd in a science and a law degree, and the main thing you do to prove or persuade is to write a book (or article). you might occasionally need to provide more tangible evidence, but we're dealing with a cartoon with an equation that some tv writer says he got from some…

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But naming your snotty little music venue after a god whom millions of people over hundreds of years devotedly gave reverence, and had drunken orgies in honor of, that's ok? right?

I thought the big guy told John Milton to explain the ways of god to man. It was so detailed that we didn't have to read all of it, and we were in AP English Lit. It also made reference to this Italian guy who wrote some rambling three-part trilobite about the scheme of things.

DIDNT ASK YOU!!! AKSED THE ARCHEMOLOLOGIST!!!

Finally a C. seemed like there was some grade-inflation going on in the music reviews section. thanks for making the brave decision to slap it on someone that anyone here might particularly be interested in hearing.

also, shouldn't that last word be "ammonite"?

well? don't you think? satan and the trilobites?? finish the story!!!

when i was married, we had some debates over the vacuum expectation value as well.

when bowlweevils was deciding which law school to go to in 2000, he reported that one of the reasons he preferred a certain midwestern law school over NYU was that he did not want to be in lower manhattan during a terrorist attack.