I'm absolutely seconding your observation about the pacing. It nearly killed my interest several times, but I managed to keep coming back. I usually binge-watch entire seasons of a show at once, but by happenstance I watched AoT every week as it was released, which I think was the saving grace that allowed me to make…

"You meddlesome hussy! Do not touch the sacrifices!"

Not exactly the same thing, since we ended up having the baby instead of aborting (this time), but before we knew the sex of the baby we couldn't give it a proper name but still had to refer to it in some way. It began as "Ziggy" the zygote, and eventually graduated to "Cletus" the fetus.

I've never actually played Mass Effect, and know almost nothing about the game series (except all the bitching my buddies did about the ending to ME3). I wanted to pick up the trilogy and run through it, but I was curious about one thing. Is there a difference in gameplay between the PC version and the Playstation…

The last time I did an oh-god-not-again-why-are-you-reading-like-5000-pages-in-a-row binge to prepare myself for Dance with Dragons, I came up with a policy to help move things along that seemed to work well: do a shot at the beginning of each Tyrion chapter. Highly recommended!

This term has now been added to my permanent lexicon when making reference to sexytimes.

Thank you for being of the few voices of reasons on this story. There are so many people who are assuming that Dad simply must be an asshole, and I just don't get it. If anything, I think it reflects more on the person making those assumptions that everyone else must be a selfish status-obsessed douchebag without any…

Scars make for great stories. My accident took 33 stitches to sew up my jaw, and 4 stitches to sew up my lip. I forgot to mention, I also completely severed my lip in half from the impact. It got sewed up and healed surprisingly well. I had a spot on my lip where the nerves were dead and I couldn't feel anything, but…

My friend and I were bored (and totally sober, believe it or not) and discovered that there was a ledge running all the way around the outside of the theater building on the university campus. Why did we decide to scoot out on this narrow ledge and follow it all the way around a random building? Because 20-year-olds…

I also had a situation once where I was the grossest thing that someone else had ever seen. When I was 20 years old, I had an accident and fell off the side of a building (don't ask) into a window well. I fell about 20-25 feet, onto concrete, on my face. I took the majority of the impact directly on the point of my…

Why are so many of these stories set in San Francisco?

If you are really feeling that lonely, then try this trick: tie a pork chop around your neck. That way, at least a dog will pay attention to you.

At least you're an honest hate-reading masochist. That's got to count for something, right?

Please tell me you're not serious. Did she really do that?

Yes, I totally get that now. In hindsight, it was a dumb thing to say. My only excuse is that I was young and naive, and more than a little clueless. Looking back on that time in my life, I can think of at least half a dozen conversations where it is painfully obvious to the today-me that I was being hit on by an…

Once while I was waiting for a bus with a coworker I was attempting to make small talk. "So, where are you from?" I asked her. She shot me a dirty look and replied "My family is originally Laotian." I wanted to stop her and explain that I literally meant to ask where she was from, like "Did you grow up here in…

I'm not sure if it still holds the title, but for some years Cudahy had slightly more bars per capita than Milwaukee did (Cudahy is a small suburb of Milwaukee which happens to be my wife's hometown, and also our weekend destination for the Veteran's Day 3-day weekend. A number of beers which is greater than 10 but…

No shit? That's awesome! Facebook randomly recommended to me that I should check out A Sound of Thunder about a year ago, and I have been digging their grooves ever since. I had no idea the badass singer was also a commenter here!

Sploosh.

Thanks a bunch! I'll go to YouTube later on tonight to try to find some videos and see what I like!