I'm confused, I thought I was at the AV Club, not Slate, because this is as Slate pitch as I've ever seen.

Exactly.

Snuff was where I stopped.
I'm going to describe it as vile, only because I can't think of an appropriate word worse than vile.
Because, for fucks sake, that shit was fucking vile.

I can't even tell if they're making a point, but I was amused, so…

All of those things sound more interesting than any of the actual books of his I read.
Although option 1 sounds like a bizzaro fantasy version of Infinite Jest.

ooohhh…. you're THAT guy.
I'm sorry, I was giving you credit for being a person worth conversing with, not a non- sequiter posting, goalpost moving, semantics parsing troll.
My bad.

Except nobody you're responding to is ignoring them.
Did you read what we said?
Vietnam was a bad idea, poorly executed, that resulted in literally millions of deaths. Kennedy and Johnson deserve their share of blame for that.
But Nixon deliberately extended that war, actively sabotaged peace talks for purely political…

I'm with you on the first post. Which I will summarize as: cultural appropriation is an actual thing, but this ain't it.
I'm not with you on this one. Ponsonby's post is 100% correct and not all that serious, at all.
You're the one that inflated things with the slave trade remark.

E.T.! I hated that movie so much.

That's fair. I probably deserved that.

http://www.leonardpierce.com
I feel like you could have figured that out yourself, but it wasn't hard, so, yeah, there you go, link.

He's not dead.
He has a perfectly functional website that updates regularly and it's delightfully free of his AV Club apologia for shitty metal.
He earned the mockery he gets in these parts, but he does still write and well.

I am who I am.
I'm sure the typical Sabbath fan has much more diverse tastes.

Write a goddamn book, old man!

You're a braver person than I. I never got past the first 20 pages of the first book.

In no particular order
Dylan, The Beatles, The Byrds, Cream, The Kinks, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Mott the Hoople, The Velvet Underground, The Church, Echo and the Bunnymen, Psychedelic Furs, Screaming Trees, Stone Roses, Roxy Music, The Buzzcocks, REM, The Replacements, Guns n Roses, Prince, Ride, Robyn Hitchcock,…

That's not a miss. AC/DC and Black Sabbath were/are deeply awful and have had 40 years worth of profoundly pernicious influence on our culture

That was really great. Thanks for the link!

So, after posting such a harsh take, I felt obligated to actually listen to the song, and, no, I didn't sever a limb, and…enh.
It wasn't as awful as I remembered. I remembered a visceral hatred, a song so awful that I had to either leave the room or physically assault the person in charge of the music. What I actually…

On the one hand, I love this album. On the other hand, I might be willing to sever a limb to avoid listening to Oh, Comely. Jesus, that song is shit.