Historical tidbit: Charlie Burton and Ranulph Fiennes both suffered from bipolar disorder.

My bipolar shifted when I was 21 from being primarily manic to primarily depressive. I still take Lamictal and Welbutrin to control the bipolar episodes, but taking an SSRI on top of that has really helped the increasing bias toward longer phases of severe depression.

I just went on Selexa three weeks ago, and I'm really starting to see the benefits. Before I tried it, I had to take anti-psychotics to maintain any level of functionality, which have terrible side effects, like weight gain that forces you to buy all new pants.

I'm privileged enough to be able to afford a Babelfish, but I agree we should be funding trans-franchise literacy, especially among demographics with less exposure to these languages. Like jocks, for instance.

You know, the prevailing logic is that if she's dirty, she tastes bad. But I'm no seduction master like christophwaltz here, so what do I know? Boy's got game!

Let's all collect spores, molds and fungus, and mail them to Doug Belgrad.

Yes, but where is pancakes house?

Thanks for the solidarity. My issues have a terrible pattern of surfacing when everything is going wonderfully in my life, but it's much better now than it was when I was a teenager. Man, those years were like being face-down in the trenches of scorn against crazy people.

That one kills me. Some are pretty well-done, actually. "Brunette stares at GAPING asshole!" is museum-quality work.

Ok, that's just weird. When I watched porn as a teenager, I jumped in my seat and had a little jolt of adrenaline anytime I hear something that sounded like a family member trying to open my bedroom door. I can't relate to family porno night at all. It can't be a widespread thing, right?

Oh yeah, definitely. I hadn't even thought of general pop culture outside of porn. Mrs. Robinson must have had the same effect on that film's generation, and there was definitely mainstream porn in the 70s through the 90s that featured middle-age women, but it's interesting how American Pie popularized an acronym that…

I recently had a similar experience with my sister, except it was about my mental health instead of my sexuality.

I think that what popularized the "MILF" genre were sites like "MILF Hunter" and "MILF Whore" — remember her? — which featured middle-age women, and their canonization in the porn narrative through file sharing established what a standard for that a "MILF" is.

I used to troll AIM sex chatrooms, and so many IMs I got were just, "do u liek mudkipz?"

Good, me neither.

Okay. So my friend in college, along with one of his friends, made this website called "MS Paint Porn". As the name implies, it hosted erotica drawn with Microsoft Paint.

Heh heh heh … "Polish."

Yeah, basically the only works where these technical exceptions apply are documentaries and art films, whose box-office earnings certainly don't justify going to court or even settling a copyright dispute.

Thanks for your perspective on this. I'm a sucker for anything involving corporate missteps, so I find this whole fiasco pretty entertaining.

I love looking at Wes Anderson movies too, but symmetrical framing is, like, Anamorphic 101. His set dressing is delicious, though.