To successfully fly out to a relative stranger and keep them sufficiently entertained for a week that they won't require you to spend more than $10 would take epic-level gigolo skills. This guy…ain't there.

…guessing he hasn't volunteered that information? He apparently survived and found a way to start whining on Twitter.

Less the "magic" part, he was painfully honest.

He seriously needs to step up his con-man game if he doesn't want to spend more time in homeless shelters. Kee-rist.

Agreed, because then you aren't flying out solely to meet them. And in most of these stories, folks barely even had a Plan A.

Going long distances to meet people you only know from what they've chosen to share with you is a recipe for disappointment at best, "Next on Unsolved Mysteries" at worst.

One-way, that's how.

Whereas my aunt got her first glasses as a teenager, and thought "wow, everybody's a lot uglier than I thought."

The defining aspect of the traditional nerd is a terminal inability to code switch.

"I’ve long joked that rappers today look like the guys rappers used to beat up."

I'm disappointed Castlevania abandoned the "(musical term) of (goth noun)" naming convention so quickly.

Love how they mask the very slow, deliberate step off the hook by going into a dance with slow, deliberate steps.

Cool. And the article dismissing it as a "gimmick" is just unfair. Supporting your whole body weight with your *ankles* is nuts; I have to imagine most people's hamstrings would snap like a cheap rubber band if they tried to do it.

Possibly. I just remember that any attempt to do it without the right equipment was, as physics would suggest, impossible.

"Black or White" without the extended screaming and crotch-grabbing section, right?

Didn't it involve an apparatus and invisible wires?

So who's the GG Allin of mumble rap?

That honestly doesn't surprise me much. Hugh Hefner assembled a pretty impressive team of writers for Playboy…which makes it kinda sad that their primary purpose was making people feel better about buying nude photos.

20 years later…

The idea of your folks not wanting you to hear about s*x and violence, but being *totally okay* with a 6 minute expletive-laden wish for California to be crushed by a tidal wave is…weird.