I was a shitty dude in a former life. @Persia is right, unfortunately.

Dear Savage Dik,

We also would have accepted "Do That To Me One More Time."

I read it when I was in middle school some 20 years ago and the thought of it still creeps me out. I went swimming out to a raft in Lake Washington last weekend and thought about that story.

Huh, I think I knew that. Securitas was my first job after I got out of the Army and I seem to remember some mention of Pinkerton during new employee orientation.

"When you someone eat it", also.

I imagine that when the Disqus people came out it was sort of like when King Joffrey took a stroll through the market.

Just like that gypsy woman said…

Ah, shit, you're right.

I think that's Poltergeist III, during the filming of which Heather O'Rourke (pictured) died of septic shock, giving the article/photo synergy an extra layer of creepiness.

I'm more interested in studies on the side effects of thunder-punching stupid scientists in the throat.

Only for like 45 minutes. And I had jorts on so it wasn't that bad.

Hmm, now that you mention it, my wife did call me "army jerk" and "camo turkey" a lot when we were dating…

Cake is a flat circle. Every cake I've ever eaten, I'm going to eat over, and over, and over again.

*internet bro hug*

Weird, I didn't get a notification for this.

I'm (very) late to the party — just now catching up on this show. Have to agree with you, but I still loved the episode. Still, some of the interpersonal stuff resonated:

Thanks! Too bad it didn't get picked up. Do let me know if you enjoy Great Game if you end up picking it up. I've liked it a lot so far; really the only criticism I have is that the author (Hugh Wilford) seems a little too sympathetic to his subjects, but even so he has seems willing to point out hubris and…

I haven't heard of that, but it sounds great. And Mrs. Balls and I just now got HBO, so hopefully we'll still be subscribed if that gets picked up.

I know what you mean. I read Lost Tales and The Silmarillion before that, and I seem to remember the Lays as being a slog. I flipped through it and it's all in Tolkien's epic-poem format, if I recall.