Determined or not, that cat must be long dead. That's kind of a downer.

It's time for me to come clean. I, too, struck my wife when she questioned my plan to redeem myself in front of the Avengers.

This is a wonderful story, certainly the best of 1995 Week and likely the best A.V. Club story this year to date, but because of the title, it doesn't show up when "1995" goes into the search bar. Just FYI.

A.V. Club is a grande dame of the Internet inventory, and they have always embedded video. You can find stories on this site that predate BuzzFeed's existence, featuring embedded videos whose host servers now lie dead in a pile of garbage on some Haitian coast.

Yeah, I look up and down these comments, and one of the most frequent reader suggestions on this story is some variation on your comment, using one or both of the Crank movies as the example. If A.V. Club does any sort of reader comment round-up, they should include your opinion.

Fast-motion is . . . you better be George Miller, I guess.

12. To ignore coherence, get subjective (Crank & Crank 2)

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^ this guy sucks

^ this guy sucks

(He also wrote the similarly ire-inducing season eight episode “The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase.”)

(He also wrote the similarly ire-inducing season eight episode “The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase.”)

I don't know why you'd think I was talking about you, then. And, yeah, I guess my parties are really more "blaze it and dance" than "travel to Salem, Massachusetts"? I don't live in New Hampshire.

A lot of people have done a lot of things due to m'cob.

People like little stories like that. They play well in sound bites, on the History Channel, etc. Ergot caused witch hysteria, lead in the water sunk the Roman Empire, and so on. I think perhaps it's comforting for certain people to imagine that people throughout history (and specifically white people, it seems) were…

I don't really see anything particularly special about those years. Are you sure that this doesn't reflect a form of confirmation bias?

I'm uneasy with the flip way these episodes in history have been reinvented by people adhering to a New Age religious tradition that dates to the early 20th century, when a number of strange and charismatic white guys invented a "pagan tradition" out of whole cloth. It's fairly certain that no such European "pagan…

I do?

Well, yeah, it's signaling. The entire "audiophile" hobby is an elaborate social pantomime, like wine-tasting, where no one actually hears the things they claim to hear but they all understand what they're supposed to claim to hear. Mainly, it has to do with competing with others over luxury spending and disposable…

Small speakers that rest near your ears? I know A.V. Club likes to stay on the bleeding edge but these head-phonic devices sound a little "hipster" to me. I'll consider it.