Just gonna say that $40,000 isn’t that incredibly high for a truck these days. The base price on the F-150 is $28,000. Pickup trucks are a luxury-heavy market these days. None of that suggests that this car isn’t ridiculous, but it’s not THAT expensive for a truck.

I completely understand with Spider-Man films, but I did want to pause to make sure that you have seen Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse, because that is one of the best movies of the last decade with no qualifiers or “good for a superhero movie” explanations added onto it. 

Always courageous of a man, upon hearing that someone hasn’t had sex lately, to volunteer to solve that problem. Women love that.

Agreed.

I’m probably revealing too much about myself here, but yeah, nightly Yahtzee would bother me too -- really anything involving people coming over every night. But I concede that I interpolated the “strangers” part, which may suggest some subconscious judgment on my part. Consciously I think the whole idea of guests…

I generally agree that the particular activity is irrelevant, but I would also be annoyed if my roommate had random strangers over every night for sex. It would especially bother me if that involved an hour of preparation in the bathroom for the sex act. That does seem like a lot.

YUP.

Very interesting point, and I’m sure that could be a motivation too. I guess my point is that I think people identify with what you might call the “Dateline” type of crime — crimes of passion, etc. — because people are more or less “rational actors,” and they like the idea that crimes happen for “reasons” that can be…

One of the biggest ethical problems with the true-crime genre is the focus on salacious murders and serial killers. These cases, which make up a tiny percentage of all crimes, make us think that any one of us could cross some thin blue line and be the victim or perpetrator of a crime in the blink of an eye. It’s a…

Maybe not the most exciting part of this for most people, but I will watch anything with Thomasin McKenszie in it after Leave No Trace. That movie was devastating and she was so great. 

You should just run the song “Golden Hour” through the ol’ Spotify and enjoy your day a little more. She’s a pretty cool lady who is trying to forge a more inclusive vision of country music.

Man time really gets away from you.

Ouch. Not a big fan of the “r-word,” but sounds about right for 2003 or whenever that was.

I remember once Chris Rock was hosting and he introduced a performance by Good Charlotte. He just said, “Good Charlotte? More like mediocre Green Day,” and then the curtain opened on Good Charlotte. What an incredible burn, and an oddly accurate statement, but something that nobody at MTV would have pre-approved.…

Yes, couldn’t agree more.

While I think it’s rare, and infinitely more rare than such cinema would suggest, there are women who REALLY enjoy this. If I had to guess I’d say it’s getting off on the objectification/subjugation, but I don’t know. I’m not disagreeing with you, just leaving the door open for the notion that women are “allowed” to…

“Legit claim to firsties” is a pretty hilarious way of saying “wrote it.” I approve.

That’s a really interesting thought, and I’ll have to mull it over a bit. My brother pointed out to me that this stanza is a bit of a joke on the very etymology of the word “stanza,” which comes from the word for a room or a stopping place — a place to rest. I think you’re right that a lot of his songs offer only a…

I learned about the Silver Jews in the late 90s/early 2000s the way everyone else did: through people who have way better taste than I do. Later, I used to hang out at Springwater in 2003 or so and he’d just show up and just walk on stage and play, already a legend. I got to talk to him once or twice. I had sort of…

I work in criminal defense now, and all we talk about is opioids these days. But I’ll always remember that this song was the first time I’d ever even heard of fentanyl.