Whichever summer that this song was really, inexplicably popular was one of the worst summers of my life. Just the pitch he'd reach on "hey" set something off in my brain, like a dog whistle.

Castiel was introduced at just the right time, too. Just as I was getting a little tired of Sam's whole thing, wham, here comes Cas to play off Dean in a completely different but very fun way, and feed the plot of what I think are easily the two most engaging seasons of the show.

The finale of the anime School Days was postponed in Japan because a girl murdered her father with an axe. It's notable mostly because the station filled the time with a slideshow of random scenery set to Air on the G String.

I'll overnight any supplies you need, great one.

Do you think this skill of yours extends to long-running J-RPG franchises? If so, maybe you could start shipping Soriku for me before Kingdom Hearts III comes out.

Do they still run Supermarket Sweep? That was a favorite of mine for playing in the background while I did homework.

This is a great inventory, but I feel it's really lacking basically any of Spencer Krug's work. Hell, sometimes he'd reference songs across whatever four projects he was involved in at the time. But my favorite example has to come off his beautiful, woefully underrated Julia With Blue Jeans On—Barbarian and Barbarian…

Yeah, I skimmed the list first to confirm their inclusion. Only after I saw them was I able to read the rest…

I'm only a vegetarian, but I think I could help clear some of this up:

I was a little disappointed because, like you said, that premise should be gold, but it was rather uneven. However it really nailed some aspects (like the horror of the Blue Badger), and I found Phoenix himself to be perfect.

Also, half the quotes from the "Ghost Princess" episode of Adventure Time.

My roommate and I have our Spongebob routine when he's leaving for work.

Araby is so short and so, so perfect. I want it read at my funeral or something.

I shrieked so loud my boyfriend ran in from the kitchen. I think I actually had to stop playing for the day.

I'm still waiting for the LP's to come in the mail, but I listened to the stream on npr obsessively (and am sorely missing it now that it's down), and I really feel that it's a masterpiece. I will admit that I am probably biased; as a mentally ill woman raised Catholic in New Jersey, there was no way I wasn't going to…

As another complete mutt who leveled out looking just non-white enough to pique people's interest, I get people excited to guess, too. Most popular guesses are Mexican, French, and Algerian.

I agree. I also really related to the 'I didn't want to look for a solution, I just wanted to be angry' line. I'm no stranger to that feeling.

Alasdair's reviews were choice. They were probably some of my favorite on the site.

Finally, a benefit to my parents living in jersey.