Huh, he told me he'd prefer not to. Bastard!

It only bothers me when their intellectually devoid parent tells them they don't really have to read it because of Sparknotes, Internet, they'll do it for them, etc. And then gives me a knowing smile like a bookstore employee wouldn't find that reprehensible! Ah well, the fact they're in a bookstore at all in 2014…

I lived with a Finnish girl and all of her drinking songs had to do with all Swedish men being homosexual. I'm assuming that's different because of it being more of a colony/colonizer relationship, though.

Amazing! Ugh. Do you remember Camo malt liquor? Tasted atrocious and was either 9 or 12% (non-ice, ice)? Anyway, when we were younger and found ourselves at a party we deemed shitty, my friends and I would each stick a handful of straws in a 20 oz can and suck it up like a mind eraser shot, one gulp. Instant angry…

Hopefully, and I do appreciate the note of positivity. If one shitty, entitled teenager becomes a little more conscious, it makes the rest of it a little more tolerable.

That Christmas tree scene is so great! It's difficult to write novels like these and still have those incredibly human moments as opposed to muckraking, broad type scenes. I work at a bookstore in the affluent part of town and when the kids come into buy it for school, inevitably bitching, I wanna smack the shit out…

Banana Strawberry or GTFO

Please come to Kansas City, that'd be killer! Will also accept St Louis although we are much less racist (by Midwestern standards, of course and unfortunately).

Yeah, still been a good run for ya these last fifteen years and a hell of a lot of season to go. Now, if you'll excuse me I'm going to start nervous drinking in preparation for the first Royals playoff game in my lifetime!

Yeah we were! Did you see the Onion article around the ninth week "NFL Decides Not to Let Chiefs Make Their Own Schedule Next Season" ☺️

Gotcha, I saw down below you said you didn't want to talk about it so I appreciate you responding, and wasn't rubbing salt, I promise.

Speaking of starting pitching (and I am totally biased) few have been better than James Shields lately, albeit not at Kauffman.

And that one was Haley starting something called "Tyler Palko" to spite KCs GM at the time.

If I remember right you're a Pats fan so I'll ask you: what's going on with Tom Brady? I'm a Chiefs fan and our secondary is shoddy at best, and should have been easy pickings but Brady looked like he wasn't even trying. Are he and Belichick squabbling or is it age, natural entropy, etc?

This has easily become my favorite part of A.V. Club, thanks for the great work! I wonder if it could work for longtime journeymen musicians, as well? Specifically, the session guys bolstering older acts who've lost original members or guys like Brian Baker who's played with Minor Threat, Meatmen, Bad Religion, Gang…

Excellent, thanks!

Excellent points, I recently read a book on the founding of the Royal Society and they quoted a historian who described that period in Europe as "a thousand years, a hundred baths" which I thought was funny.

Whoa, Seth…

I'm seeing them in two weeks, good show? I loved that latest record.

And yet you can't even spell Mistah Dawn! (Scoff)