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1. about 1 hour ago on Agnes

   “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.” — Genesis/Douglas Adams

2. about 2 hours ago on Agnes

   “In the sermon I have just preached, whenever I said Aristotle I meant Saint Paul.”

   — The Reverend William Archibald Spooner

3. about 3 hours ago on Agnes

   “Sunshine” is pronounced with three syllables? Sun-SHEE-nay?

4. about 3 hours ago on Agnes

   I don’t loathe the name my parents gave me, but I never had any attachment to it. Neither did they, from what I’m told; they knew they wanted a son named “Michael,” and my older brother got that. When I came along they had to name me SOMETHING, but what they gave me wasn’t a family name; since it was neither German nor Dutch (nor from the Bible), probably nobody on either side of my family had EVER had it.

   I was about 15 when I decided my name was Fritz. I just came across it and decided I felt like a Fritz (my middle name is Frederick, but that had nothing to do with it), and most people agreed that it suited me (there were a few hold-outs, but I wore them down), and so I’ve been Fritz for about 45 years now.

5. about 4 hours ago on Agnes

   So long as the sound is right, there’s nothing wrong with having an ironic band name. But Cute Kitten Maniacs would probably be a better way to go.

6. about 4 hours ago on Agnes

   There’s a big difference between Psychobilly and Heavy Metal. The granddaddy of the genre is the Cramps, but some other prominent band names names are Demented Are Go, the Switchblade Valentines, Young Werewolves, Frantic Flintstones, and so on.

7. about 5 hours ago on Agnes

   Leave the rest to Trout’s Mom. Although she can rock and roll, too…

   “As long as there’s, y’know, sex and drugs, I can do without the rock and roll.”

   — Mick Shrimpton, This Is Spinal Tap

8. about 5 hours ago on Agnes

   The Cramps. R.I.P. Lux Interior…

9. about 7 hours ago on Agnes

   I think it’s a song from “Dumbo.”

10. about 7 hours ago on Lay Lines

    I see killing the stepfather as part of the fantasy. He WANTS to do it, or perhaps (at age 21, wishes he’d killed him 6 years ago).

    But, if he HAD killed the stepfather as a juvenile, it’s possible that he’d be out by 21 and working as an odd jobber.