Thanks for the kind words, @avclub-fa3a6526569956b7e39960592bf0e30d:disqus. I've been seeing a therapist since January, and it's been helping a lot. Especially in noticing my conflicted thinking patterns and my kind of internal fight against myself when I'm feeling really down.

SHORTEST STRAW

Cool. Used to hang out there a lot (well, a little further south). Especially Meridian Pint and the Wonderland.

Which branch of the Methodist church? I'm United Methodist and they are surprisingly progressive about stuff like that. At least in the more urban/liberal churches.

Nice! Which neighborhood? My wife and I lived in Adams Morgan, just south of the zoo (the "quiet" part of AM).

Goddard? Used to drive by there occasionally and always thought it was a cool-looking compound.

When I moved out there I started with craigslist to get an idea of prices and then looked at the addresses on the DC crime map. I think I nixed a place if there were more than three stabbings/shootings a year with a quarter mile radius. =)

Ballsy's Depression Hovel

I have often remarked to my wife that I wish Tim Gunn could just follow me around and give me life advice a la Project Runway.

My little girl needs to see Daddy's Thing!

Me too! My wife (girlfriend at the time) disabused me of that notion pretty early in our relationship. Now, solely to aggravate her, I refer to any slightly exotic color that I don't know the proper name for as "chartreuse."

Temple of Doom is my favorite Indiana Jones movie. It's a campy, nonsensical romp with tons of cool set pieces and — when I was a little kid, at least — I loved the cultural peculiarities of backwoods India. Of course, I now realize how fucked up the portrayal of Indian culture was, but still, a really fun movie, with…

"Keep the Car Running" is still one of my favorite AF songs — I also love "Suburban War" and The Suburbs in general, though I've heard people pan it before.

Almost spat water out my nose when I read that. Well done.

Sweet Dee's gag reflex
Fight Milk
Charlie eating spaghetti in a theater

Or Fight Milk!

The wore is canceled. We canal go horm.

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I REMEMBER MY FRIEND TELLING ME ONE TIME THAT THERE WOULD BE A CHOSEN ONE.

I'm more excited about the sequel, The Rise of Wurmhat.