I've been wondering about this too. I mean, you can only kidnap someone once, right? Maybe holding them for a certain length of time adds a new charge, like three months or something? Just a wild guess, I haven't a clue for real.

I am like you in thinking it's easier to pick who is going to survive the Game instead of picking who will lose. So just out of curiosity, who do you think is going to live? I have my own theories, but we won't know the proper ending for another two full novels anyway.

I have a name that is easily misspelled, and it has been an issue my whole life. Whenever I am in a situation like this where a server or barrista is asking for my name, I just lie and say "Mike". Since I'm consistent with the fake name I give, I still recognize that they're talking about me when they announce Mike's…

Maria Bamford is THA SHIT. I love her stuff so much and have followed her career literally from the very beginning - we went to the same school in Minnesota! (it was a Grade 7-12 school, she was a senior and I was a "sevvie") I remembered her as being the Prom Queen, the lead in a number of plays, always outspoken and…

I found a banana slicer, a horse head mask, and... a Katy Perry poster. This is like the most fucked-up version of scavenger hunt ever. Pardon me while I go scratch my head until it bleeds.

"Maybe if you don't have "a strong feeling either way," you should just shut the fuck up"

I have probably listened to Armchair Apocrypha about a million times (it's great for chillaxin' and/or gettin' blazed - seriously, just the opening chords of "Fiery Crash" are enough to put me in an altered state) but it never really occurred to me for hot lovin'. It just seems too... I dunno, earnest? Not sleazy…

Totally with you on the Black Keys. Our go-to album for sexytimes is Magic Potion. "Your Touch" is a great opening track, and thematically sets the mood as well.

You don't need to do that. Automatically labeling someone who disagrees with your viewpoint a "troll" really adds nothing to the discussion. If you don't want to respond to his questions, just ignore him.

The Internet is not really a good place to be when you're in that particular mood.

I'm desperately trying to come up with a joke here, maybe about gays hearing "crosswalk" and thinking it meant "cross-dressing catwalk" or something and then having uncontrollable spontaneous sex on the street that leads to so many traffic fatalities... I dunno, I give up. It's just too bizarre, too ridiculous. I…

Only in Minnesota do you seem to get the fascination with weather across the board from every type of person you might ever meet. Of course, there aren't many places in the world that have temperatures that vary so widely between about 110 degrees and 50 below zero (not in the same month, IF YOU'RE LUCKY).

Apropos of nothing at all, the name of the Men's Swim Team for my High School was - the Seamen. Their 'mascot' was a little teardrop-shaped thing that was supposedly a drop of water, but all the guys called it "Spermy". The two slogans I remember seeing on posters before big matches were: "The Seamen - always coming…

Do what I do: stick to small talk. TV shows & movies, sports (if you're into that), weather if there's nothing else. You're having kids soon, so that'll be enough right there to fuel practically unlimited conversations.

So... you're saying that you can't use literal to mean figurative, but you can use literal in a figurative way? Sorry, I guess I don't see the difference. It just seems like semantics to me.

I suppose literally can be used figuratively in much the same way that wet can be used to mean dry; which is to say, incorrectly.

Literally and figuratively are antonyms. So no, it really shouldn't be used that way. Unless you are *intentionally* going for doublethink? Meh, I went and overthought it now.

Time and a place, dude. Time and a place.

Just curious, how do you know if something is about to taken down from Netflix? Do they send you a notice if it appears in your queue?

Speaking as the parent of twins plus another kid of a different age, I actually find it easier to deal with multiple kids who are all the same age, as opposed to kids of different ages. The twins go through potty training together, get the same kinds of foods prepared, enjoy the same sorts of toys, wear clothes of the…