The Beatles broke up nearly 30 years before OK Computer was released. Heck, the Beatles broke up before I was even born, and I'm a lame old dad who listens to dad rock.

Jeez, that sucks. I was under the impression that there was a lot more scrutiny w/r/t drugs like Ativan, and pain medication, in the past couple of years. Hope you're well.

Nope, Radiohead is totally quasi-hipster dad rock. All those brainy white dudes who went to college in the '90s, are now dad who rock out to Radiohead in their minivans while their kids roll their eyes. Radiohead is totally a white dude cliche. And I say that as someone who likes Radiohead, is a white…

What doctor gave a recovering addict an Ativan script? And without knowing more, what doctor would give anyone a long-term Ativan script (assuming that's the case). Ativan can be severely misused, and coming off of it after prolonged use can be hellish for some people. For an ex-addict it could be even more dangerous.

Can I just tattoo it on my dick? I mean, there'd only be room for them to initial it, but that's still legally binding, right?

Says someone who has clearly never had sex with someone they just met.

Oh man, I can't stand Bob Ezrin's production on that, it's been the main barrier to me really enjoying Berlin for years and years. In general, Ezrin's production on most anything gets on my nerves…

Agree. I was focused on Reed for awhile, and didn't dive into Cale's stuff for years. When I finally did, it was revelatory, and Cale's stature in my mind immediately surpassed Reed's.

First, that's not even correct. The concept of the white middle class cultural tourist absolutely existed before Lou Reed. Largely you saw things like whites appropriating jazz culture in the '50s, or blues culture in the '60s (see the Rolling Stones). The idea that someone would consciously put on airs for…

Everyone has shit in their life. Every. One. Life fucking sucks for a lot of us. Reed still made a choice. And he had the privilege to make that choice, when many others do not. The point is that David was born into the shit that Lou chose to live with.

I didn't overlook anything: "He also had a variety of personal problems to overcome, and I don't think those should be invalidated."

"And I wouldn't call Lou Reed a privileged art student"

That doesn't even make sense. It's a bad thing that people with niche interests have a variety of options available to them?

As a former J-school student, I can tell you without a doubt that none of my professors would've allowed me to hide behind a "he's just a college student" defense. I'm a relatively artsy-fartsy kind of guy, and even I can't stomach this "adults are supposed to encourage college kids to experiment with self-expression"…

Honestly, I have no trouble following Lonergan's writing and do not consider it poorly written. Go back and read Aberle's original editorial, which randomly veers into discussions of race and the inexplicable belief that "casting actors rather than stars" will enable productions to "avoid… sexual abusers" — and then…

Sam is actually very wrong here. Lonergan isn't writing in some quasi-hip slang when he says "dropping." He doesn't mean "dropping some science." He means drop like "lost," "not in possession of." He's noting the complete lack of the word "alleged" in sentences such as "Wesleyan University cannot insist on claiming…

Sam, it seems like you're missing a few things here that you might want to correct. Lonergan isn't using the phrase "dropping the word alleged" to mean "use of the word" - he's not writing in some quasi-hip vernacular. He means "losing the word." If you look back at the original editorial, Aberle writes, "[…]their…

Is it me or is this trying a little too hard? Archer is full of all kinds of cultural references, and some of the ones mentioned here aren't exactly literary (or aren't sufficiently contextualized). A "Chekhov's Gun" is a specific type of reference, not just Archer naming his gun after Chekhov. "Faustian" is…

Sorry Matthew, but Trump literally squandered all goodwill in his first two weeks in office. I didn't vote for Trump, but on 1/20/17 I was willing to say, "Hey maybe, just maybe, he'll treat this gift he's been given with the proper respect and decorum." Almost immediately, his inauguration speech made me do a double…

Essentially what McSweeny's did yesterday: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/…