I saw Dashboard in their early days as the middle act of a hardcore bill in the bingo hall of some church. I will give him credit, coming out and playing an acoustic set of love songs seemed pretty damn punk rock when it was bookended by two hardcore bands full of screaming vocals and screeching guitars. It was like a…

Because we are all striving for ironic detachment.

Yes, but those bands all openly hated the term and ran from it as fast as possible. So it didn't quite stick.

Well, there was the time the Nerd rapes the Cheerleader and it's played for laughs.

There's also the fact that you didn't have access to nearly every song ever recorded, so you were sort of forced to listen to the CD's you did own over and over and over… until you knew them backwards and forwards, even if you didn't particularly like them.

It's pretty great. I'm surprised he didn't keep that one and purge everything after, as I've mentally done with their career. We'll always have that debut. Sort of like Stone Roses only with more disappointing records to follow.

Lily Allen earns bonus points for making incredibly dirty songs that my toddler will sing along to. "Fuck You" is the catchiest damn song, and I can't even get mad at my four year old adorably dropping the f-bomb. Repeatedly.

It's how you approach dark and gritty. The reason Mutant Massacre worked so well is that the dark and gritty was genuinely shocking at the time, but it also came at the price of their souls. Colossus isn't lauded for being a bad ass and going grimdark, but it is instead portrayed as tragic… something died inside of…

Hell, he made the ridiculous Inferno storyline work, mainly because Maddie is right. Her motivations (and Alex's betrayal) make sense. It's a fantastical story, but it's rooted in character beats that solidly hit. It also served as a logical capper to all of the previous mutant crossover events. You could argue it was…

It's great for the majority of its run, even if Claremont hated that it ruined Cyclops' happy ending. Louise Simonson was great. It's the first step to X-Men continuity becoming way too complicated, but it could support two books that rarely crossed over. I just pretend the X-Men stopped when X-Factor ended and the…

Mr. Sinister's powers were always ill-defined, but he was a far greater threat because he got shit done. Killing all the Morlocks and nearly half of the X-Men, enslaving Polaris, turning Madeline Pryor into the Goblin Queen (and retconning him to having grown her in a lab)… that's a villain. He didn't talk about…

It's a shame that the X-Men films are meant to appeal to the people who collected X-Men in the 90s… which is probably the single worst period in the X-Men's narrative history, for just the reasons you outlined.

Yeah, I didn't like that either. Keep your enemies closer, Sansa. If nothing else, take his army for now and kill LF later. Now, when they can't raise an army, when she goes back to LF, it is from a position of weakness. She'll be begging instead of taking. Take the gift now, it's not like Robin is a threat.

While hanging out in a tree for long stretches of time with nothing to do but warg, maybe the Three Eyed Crow could have mentioned at some point to Bran not to let the Night King touch you. I thought that was some lazy writing, as Bran could have avoided that invasion with a ten second conversation.

I read and liked the comics, though I didn't love them. The Posette has never read them. We both absolutely hated this show. It was just all over the place with no rhyme or reason. Additionally, the characters, particularly Jesse, just felt off. I'm fine with changing the text, but dumping the comic's first storyline…

Almost every suburb has a great dive bar with cheap beer and a limited menu in that strip mall no one goes to anymore. Yeah, the one with the f'd up parking lot that hasn't been maintained in about a decade. My local dive bar has the menu written in Sharie on a posterboard. The cheeseburger is three bucks. Chips are…

I honestly think nu metal was worse, but most everything on TRL was awful. I don't think it matters that much. So were the Transformers movies, and kids flocked to those things. Teens and preteens have a lot of purchasing power in pop culture, but we don't have to pretend they have discerning tastes. I don't think…

It's almost precisely the same. Top 40 music is almost always pretty terrible because it is primarily driven by children, who have lousy taste. Great stuff sneaks through every so often, but usually that's on accident.

I'll just go to King's Dominion in Virginia, just to limit my exposure to Ohio. I do enjoy woodies.

This is literally the only reason why I'd ever go to Ohio.