My dad was basically Ron Burgundy in various major markets when I was a kid and young adult. He’d sometimes talk about whatever celeb or politician he’d met that day, but I was shocked when he came home and wouldn’t stop talking about what a great guy David Crosby was. “You mean, guitars and guns and cocaine David…

“The position that I’ve always held is that we’re attracted to individuals, not types, and it’s wrong to have expectations of people based on race—especially when it comes to sexualizing/fetishizing people.”

We all have types, and we all have some attitudes that can be seen as stereotypes. That doesn’t mean those stereotypes are particularly malignant. I do admire darker skin, but whether the genes causing that pigmentation came from Sri Lanka, Cote d’Ivoire, or Sao Paulo doesn’t really matter. I just think it looks nice…

I honestly did think back to my teens, finding a tattered bit of an old Penthouse in the woods, with the section full of letters starting with “Dear Penthouse. I’d always assumed these letters were fake, but last week I met two stewardesses...”

My partner threw a game of Jeopardy.

She won twice - I think they recorded three shows a day? - but couldn’t miss work the next day, had a long trip home, so just kind of lazed out for the third game. This was in another country that does the game, so don’t try to guess who it was.

Still, it gave her enough money to…

Bondadder. James Bondadder.

While I may not agree with what you say, I heartily endorse your articulate, raging contempt.

Since no one asked... I’d love a reboot with the series as a period piece. The early 1960s is chock full of (well-exploited in the Connery run) Cold War spycraft, with no mobile phones, nanobots, or “Enlarge. Enhance” satellites ‘n’ computers nonsense. Or, apparently, venereal disease.

They were surprisingly great live. Fun, tight, all bouncing around like wind-up toys. It’s strange to see them all glammed up in that photo. I’m going to guess the new album has been similarly glossed. Definitely worth checking out.

I don’t believe it’s too modernized. The production took over half my town for four weeks, so I was explaining to my daughter what phone booths were, as there were prop phone booths, some bike racks with 80s-looking beach cruisers, that sort of thing, in addition to the usual new street signs and storefronts.

Oddly, a friend was pretty involved in both the Del Toro movies, and loved working on them. While another friend plays a witch in the new one: she reported that it was a very pleasant production, and Jovovich was nice to work with. But they probably saw the different movies through different filters, perhaps the same…

Yes, I saw him in LA, doing What About Dick even earlier. It was pretty remarkable seeing him with Eric Idle, Tim Curry, Eddie Izzard, Tracy Ullman, Russell Brand, Jim Piddock, and Jane Leeves (just had to look up Sophie Winkleman, sorry) all trying to upstage each other. He and Ullman were the two who most clearly…

People say stuff like that all the time in some contexts, knowing it’s ridiculous. I doubt either of them mean it as a manifesto. A great friend of mine, who is female, happens to not be monogamous while enjoying sex and being very popular. She’s jokes that she’s a bi man in a woman’s body, and I in turn have joked…

Oddly, you didn’t say a single positive thing about your couch-dwelling guy, apart from his financial solvency. Why do you love him? Do you love him?

I’m motivated to rock harder when the audience are ursine.

And written in rehearsal rooms that are the band-biop equivalent of the 90s NYC apartment. Real bands rehearse in a dimly-lit cinderblock warehouse space the size of a broom closet, stinking of cigarettes, bear, and piss, with scraps of discarded carpeting on the walls and am ancient sunn ((o)) mixer with two…

Decatur here. Mayberry meets Portland, just with more barbeque.

Yeh, as reprehensible a shitheel as Kemp is, it was 70% of 53,000. Let’s not slide into GOP alternative facts.

None. None more dark.

I swear she started gigging in about ‘91 as Cat Power. I knew Chan just a little, and she was a really nice person, but yeah, not exactly swaggering with self-confidence. I dunno if she’s fundamentally changed, but knowing what she was like kind of predisposes me to liking her albums, as they do seem like authentic sel…