Don't think the dude in the avatar would look good in a skirt, so I'll go with the former.

Yeah, it's like, I can only listen to one song at a time, and it's not like I want to listen to them only once, so what's the point of hoarding? I've only got about 4,500 songs in my library, but they're all there on purpose.

I assume it's an Office Space/Michael Bolton situation.

Honestly, for me the used CD place usually balances out to much cheaper than iTunes' or whoever's going rates. And it's close by, so why wouldn't I?

They'll take my copy of Tragic Kingdom when they pry it from my COLD DEAD HANDS!

Franc/Off

Just leave me on the island of Babilonium from Abarat. I'm sure I'll find something.

It took me a while to come around to FSF (like someone said downthread, stuff like DND and Secret Smile are just so corny, although for whatever reason that never bothered me with Closing Time), but I eventually kind of got it as an example of what Wilson's talking about here: a sort of fearless sincerity and openness…

I'm a bit more on-board with that philosophy than I'd like to admit, so that wouldn't keep me away. But it sounds like crap regardless.

I bet the blurbs on the back cover would be awesome, though.

The parents don't complain about Grey because they want to make sure it's still around for them to read.

And them Game Boys and the hippity hop I tell ya what.

There aren't many other genres where praising it and taking the piss out of it sound like the same thing.

I'm of a mind with you on this topic (likes anime, doesn't like MLP), so really now…glass houses. Stones. Etc.

I'd be willing to tolerate a lot more of these shenanigans if the show itself was any good. Putting aside the stuff about fandoms and gender roles and whatever, I hate that style of animation and it's not like the stories and dialogue are anything brilliant, even by kids' show standards. But whatever, there's a lot of…

Revy from Black Lagoon.

Oy, you're tellin' me? I assume the editors cut out a few lines of "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! Please forgive me! This is all my fault! Everything is all my fault!"

I like my rappers more ghetto and ratchet sounding. Personally, I like
more melodramatic, ignorant rap where they’re talking about violence and
anger and it’s just evil. I don’t like when it’s too conscious, I don’t
like it when it’s too smart.

I bet it would be instructive to chart the amount of angst/number of characters killed off in YA/teen genre lit over the years, and I also bet these books would cause the trend line to jump.

I agree with a lot of this on principle (No means no, no exceptions; women are not prizes to be won through perseverance, and so on.) But I can't help but feel that the meta-conversation surrounding these tropes is shifting from "Men shouldn't harass women who have clearly told them they aren't interested" to "Men who…