I play piano, I can gladly make this happen

"has finally conquered the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 of food critique"

I freaking love you.

Put me in the "die-hard fan with deep ambivalence" camp. I'd love to see the mythology mostly eschewed in a re-boot, with more of a focus on Monster-of-the-Week stuff; Mulder & Scully solving crimes in some damp dark place that is obviously BC with witty repartee and nerdy sexual tension. And bring back the Smoking…

In addition to his aesthetic appeal, he is a doctoral thesis away from holding a PhD from Yale. Smart is sexy.

It's nice to see that David Duchovny is still effing fine and it wasn't just all the teenage hormones talking back in 1997.

That Sondheim was spot-on.

"What a privilege, to concern yourself with seeming good while the rest of us want to seem worthy of life."

This line hit me right in the gut.

There are so many fantastic moments on this show it's hard to pinpoint just one, but "33" is a masterpiece of storytelling, mainly for the reasons you mentioned. Gotta give some major love to Bear McCreary for his work scoring this show. That score was groundbreaking in so many ways, and so effortlessly integrated…

She has great pitch and a really nice folksy timbre. Dig it.

Wow, thanks skymall. This is a great link. My dad is so much like the guy I mentioned above (I know I know...it's a cliche) and definitely shows some of these tendencies and I wrestle with feeling like a bad kid or being unloyal for acknowledging it. Like my therapist tells me, I just have to find a way to walk away…

Thank you for sharing. I struggle to reconcile those two sides too. I was complicit, I enjoyed it, I was so prideful about landing this man who was so out of my league. But he abused his power and authority (he was one of my college professors, I was sort of a non-trad student, starting college at 22) and if he had…

Thanks for all the kind words. I've been waiting for 10 years to tell that story.

I have always felt like a poacher or a homewrecker, but ours was a mutual pairing. He was running from his marriage and I was flattered that he was interested. He laid it on so thick about being miserable in his marriage, that made it easy for me to take an active role in the affair. There is no way I would have…

Thanks for that. When he broke up with me I was a mess, as you might understand, and didn't take it well. And everyone we knew acted like I was crazy, and that I just needed to get over it, because he was such a "nice guy" and had a position of power in the community and was well-liked. But under all that he is…

When I was young (22) and stupid and easily impressionable, an older male authority figure showed interest in me. He was married, but knew just how to play me - he talked about how unhappy he was, how his wife withheld emotionally, and so on. He did a marvelous job of getting me to feel sorry for him and this was my…

Damn ninjas chopping onions in here this afternoon...

Aww, you took mine! Starbuck is my all-time favorite. As more of her backstory came to light you realized that she did what she did because she'd experienced some messed-up shit and was that classic case of needing to tightrope along the edge of death to be functional. Her self-destructive tendencies were most obvious…

I got sucked into this hokum a few years ago because I was trying to figure out why I had terrible heartburn all the time. So I jumped on the trendy white girl train and went "gluten-free" for, I dunno, a week? Then I realized my heartburn was gone, but it wasn't the gluten that caused it in the first place - it was…

Migraines are no joke. I've had them since I was 11, with aura, which includes shimmering lights, watery illusions, and what they call monocular blindness (where you can't see out of one eye). Migraines with aura are often mistaken for seizures because of the visual symptoms. AND migraines with aura present an…

Can't wait for the "Hashtag Great Potato Famine" sign when Notre Dame plays Boise State