Tell me about it! Back when I was doing research on ants, bees, and wasps I started an online group called Hymenophilia. It did not attract the group of entomological professionals I had expected.

I’m actually going to two shows in different cities, months apart, so I can see it with my husband and my kid! (Their schedules don’t line up.) I can’t say I’m a huge fan of Phillips, but I like weird.

Damn it. Now I want Oreos.

Whoa, there... a call-out to Niles? Go Vikings!

I’m pretty sure I can still recite his “Sara Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out” that I learned as a tyke. As a teenager I heard “The Smoke Off” on Dr. Demento, and I think I still have that memorized, too. I was really sad when Silverstein died.

How does congnitive dissonance not make these people’s heads explode?

This joke reminded me that I am seeing Emo open for Weird Al in March. Something to look forward to if Trump doesn’t start WWIII before then!

So, a take on the classic Phil Hartman as Reagan the “mastermind” sketch?

Aww, I have so many good memories of driving around in my best friend’s Tercel SR5 in high school! We thought it was the coolest car ever. It had this weird indicator with a little picture of the car, that, for some reason, showed if the car was level? Or something like that; it’s been over 30 years!

I’ve been listening to Magic Tavern for about 6 months (based on a recommendation from AVC, I believe), and am up to the current episodes. Chunt gets to be less of a jerk at some point; at least I think so, or perhaps I’ve been listening long enough that I’ve just gotten used to it.

I must be a terrible person because every time I see the trailer, its treacly sweetness makes me a bit nauseous.

What is it about that wording? I thought the same thing!

Come on, the late ‘70s was all about treacly melodrama! This week in 1978, the Top 40 included “You Light Up My Life,” “Baby Come Back,” “I Go Crazy” and my all-time overwrought sentimentality favorite, “Sometimes When We Touch”!

I had a dream the other night that included a dreadful realization that the unknown person I was with was a huge Nickleback fan. As the band is pretty much a non-entity to me (I’m not sure I would recognize any of their songs), I’m not sure where that came from, but it made me laugh when I remembered it after waking…

I just realized that considering the quality of the characterizations and their “outsider” status, a show following the younger kids without the the supernatural angle would be a middle school version of Freaks & Geeks.

Huh. I was 15 in 1983, and have no memory of that game existing at all. I thought the game was made up on ST, and thought to myself, “what kind of arcade game looked like that in the 80's?”. Maybe it was a bigger city thing? I was no huge gamer, but I definitely spent some time hanging out in arcades back then.

With the exception of maybe Silence of the Lambs, I was never more genuinly and delightedly frightened in a movie than I was when I saw The Fog. Not that it’s the scariest movie ever, but something about the circumstances of seeing it in the theater when I was 16 that just primed me for it.

Same thing here. Somebody clue us in!

Eh, I was exactly Jonathon’s age in ‘84, and while the movie was popular, it seemed to be more so with parents than the kids.

People are dumb.