It also helps to know that umlauts and other typographic and spelling fuckery were just another way to make your name & logo look cool during the glampunk scene in late-70s/early-80s L.A.

First, a work can be intermittently challenging so the qualifying usage "at times" in the original sentence is a valid subjective statement. Second, it's still the case that those commas are optional as they are not joining separate clauses and there is no fuse or splice without them. Such usage is common if the…

NBC would cut off all its managers' thumbs for the right to air mockery of themselves in the form of an eighth season of 30 Rock. It's 30 Rock that wouldn't have them.

There was, but it's not nearly as fun as you're thinking.

Or about "Tommyland".

January has been pretty well rehabilitated the last few years.

No commas are needed in that sentence. Commas are drastically overused in general.

That was a notoriously easy album cover to Xerox and pass off as real.

jeez, give a guy a trigger warning, will ya?

goddamn both of you…

"Live's a band I had to pretend to like to woo a girl in high school."
- Every adolescent male between 13 and 16 during 1994.

"Miami Vice" was my first, fully self-financed record as well. Well, it's a tie because I got Pet Shop Boys "Please" the same day. I was 12, and man did I like synthesizers.

Solve that problem and you will become one in-demand Con presenter.

My god, you're right. Superhero movies are so unrealistic.

He's been shown de-fatted and rather ripped in other, off-set photos. There's got to be an army of creepily effective personal trainers at Marvel's disposal.

SEE?!

2 other people are typing and I'm very excited to see what they are typing.

Yes, and it's baffling.

Someone did. The annoying result? They Came Together.

My wife is now making "grapefruit" noises from across the room/house at random intervals and it kills me every time.