They're not angry, they're just misunderstood! [rimshot]

So glad to hear somebody looks forward to the feature. This was the 50th Wiki Wormhole, and considering the feature was cancelled because of low ratings after the first 16 installments, it makes me very happy to see I've built up an audience. (and that the AV Powers That Be gave me another shot)

Really? The James Bond films taught me that you tell basically everyone you meet that you're a spy, tell them your real name, and take them back to your hotel room and have sex with them.

If British people didn't want to be characterized as pixies and wizards, then they shouldn't have given themselves ridiculous names like "Benedict Cumberbatch."

Funny, I very nearly linked to this from Pedestrianism. There was a lot of gambling on competitive walking (spoiler for next week), so I looked towards gambling for future entries, which led me to Baccarat, but I spent too much time reading about James Bond, and decided to go in a different direction for the "further…

Ha. That's perfect.

Great piece, Marah. Having grown up in Buffalo and fleeing for New York, I had a very similar experience, right down to my hometown starting to feel a glimmer of hope (just replace "LeBron" returning with "some jobs, maybe"). There's always this mixture of hope, and near-certainty that those hopes will be smacked down…

For accuracy's sake, I'm a freelance writer for the site. I don't work for the AV Club full-time or anything, and as such don't get the "staff" thing for my comments. I answered the open call for Newswire writers they put out last year, and they liked the stuff I had written elsewhere. Not sure whether being Cookie…

Did you see the one where he bricks up Henry into a tunnel because he refuses to work? It's like an Edgar Allen Poe story! What's worse is, it was a two-parter, and PBS kids didn't show them in order. So the episode would end with Henry bricked up in the tunnel, and then it was on to fucking Calliou or something, and…

"Innocence" usually just means someone's doing a good job of sweeping all the unsavory shit under the rug.

According to Snopes it's a legend, but they don't back that up terribly well (which is unusual for Snopes). http://www.snopes.com/colle…

All good points, but I'd disagree with women not having earning power. Upper class women were expected to be idle, but lower class women always worked — taking care of their own households, and then doing the "traditionally female" tasks that were beneath the upper class women — cooking, cleaning, child-care, the same…

I wonder if the werewolf myth actually came from these kinds of gruesome murders. It makes sense, in a way, for people to think a human being couldn't have committed such an atrocity, so it must be a monster of some kind.

"Well, come on, I'm not a monster!" — H.H. Holmes

I think if you were a man pre-1900 (in this country anyway), and you had uncontrollable murderous impulses, you just murdered Indians. You'd be more likely to get a paycheck out of it than a jail sentence.

Yeah, there were certainly loads of men on the list too. The thing about this column is that, most weeks there's just more stuff than I can get to in one article, so something or someone is going to be left out. Even a topic as seemingly thin as Top Hats a few weeks ago, I got scolded for leaving out Sir Topham Hatt…

I actually didn't notice that. I'll just say two things:

Many college buildings built in the 60s and 70s – dorms especially — have intentionally confusing layouts to make it harder for students to protest. Lots of entrances and exits, no main hallway that can be blocked to shut down the building. Of course, this backfired because they're all security nightmares — if someone…

Parenting, as we think of it, seems to be a pretty recent construct as well. Pre-20th century, if they made it to 18 and hadn't died, you did great.

Stupid Disqus! It's The Miniature Book of Miniature Golf, which is a working miniature golf course in book form. It comes with a tiny golf club and tiny golf balls, and when you sink a putt, the ball drops down to the next page. On sale everywhere! (I also put out a sophomore slump follow-up, the nigh-unplayable Pocket…