As soon as he said 3 months, I connected the dots, because I have been to countries with these visa rules. That said, all airlines should have something in their booking system that checks your expiration date against the visa rules for any country you are travelling to and then provide a warning to indicate you need…

If he had retired early, the alternative medicine movement and dietary supplement industry probably wouldn’t be as strong as they are now. He was one of the main people involved in declawing the FDA. He is responsible for the FDA having to wait for evidence that a supplement is harmful before they can do anything…

The band I’ve seen the most is my friend from Madison’s defunct emo band, Circus Fires. They were pretty awesome, with each member bringing in different shades of emo to the mix.

Manu manu?

I was thinking the other day about how we seem to have an overgeneralization problem in this country when it comes to institutional distrust. The FBI does something to abuse its power and all of a sudden, people are calling for the destruction of NASA, because “they’re all part of the government”.

Articles with titles like “Watch <person X> do <thing y> at <event that occurred>” that simply consist of links to other websites.

Below is Thursday’s “Understanding in a Car Crash”, to which I was listening while reading the article. At first, I thought the disconnect between the article and the song was funny, but then I fixated on the lyric “I don’t want to feel this way forever” and realized it was perfect.

JFCWTF

Another emo classic (and referenced in the song above)!

This is amazing

My replies are hilarious.

Full disclosure: I am a Bengals fan.

Paradise?

Hot take alert: Sparta is better than The Mars Volta*.

Somehow I didn’t know that John Zorn had put out a Christmas album until today. It was released in 2011 and has an amazing lineup of musicians, including Trevor Dunn, Marc Ribot, and Mike Patton. After one and a half listens, it’s my second favorite Christmas album of all time behind Mr. Hankey’s Christmas Classics.

Best Blink-182 song!

I cut my nails to the quick
But still I was caught with my hand in the till
Red-handed

Bingo. The patriarchy isn’t just an external force keeping people down, it’s also internal. Plenty of people internalize it and view it as the way things should be. I’ve known women who were cheated on who blame themselves. They view men as  being unable to resist urges and they feel they didn’t do enough to keep…

Bought At Action Park on vinyl today. Such a good album. Albini forever.

Minor correction: all of RtL is great (except Escape).