Yes!!!! True Blood Recaps are back! The summer has officially started!

I’m sure this will get lost in the SEA OF A BILLION COMMENTS, but here goes:

- I, too, lost the thread of commenting in the redesign. It IS a pain to relogin every single time. And for a while I couldn’t change my password so I literally had the string of letters and numbers saved as a folder on my desktop so I could easily copy and paste it. I just ended up giving up. That being said…
- I still read Videogum everyday. It’s the first thing I do when I get home from work (site is blocked at work). And that’s part of the issue re: commenting. Now that commenting is a game for Chuck E Cheese tickets, there’s no point in commenting on a story posted hours earlier — no one will read it.
- I know this is going to be a VERY UNPOPULAR statement, and I’ll take my lickings. I miss Lindsey. There I said it. I don’t mind Kelly, but I resent the false justification for cutting Lindsey and now there’s a replacement? What, was Lindsey too tenured and you had to bring in fresh blood who would be lower on the pay scale? Sorry. That’s a low blow. But it’s more than just Lindsey…
- I miss the way Videogum was BEFORE Lindsey left. It was absurd and adult and little post-modern. Now, I feel like all of the older commenters have graduated and I’m still hanging around the high school. It’s like Saved by the Bell the New Class up in here.
- And my last point, and this is 100% true. Gabe, I think you are an extremely talented writer and an authentic voice for this generation. I think you sell yourself short by committing to this blog. Really, I expected you to have abandoned it for bigger and better things by now (and I kinda feel like you may have had opportunities you turned down). You are my go-to pop culture guru. You tear it up. You’re not afraid. You “get it”. You are on my list of “top 10 people to have dinner with” (No, Stalker.) I hope you blow this joint and make something of yourself!

Yeah, further proof she’s the worst: I live in East Nashville, home to many of the places she cited (including Ugly Mugs, which she claims she went to “every morning”), and NOT ONE PERSON in this neighborhood ever saw her! Not one! There’s a very active neighborhood listserv here and we all confirm that there were no sightings. Liar!

Then I have lived.

Okay, well here’s some trivia for you: the school made them change “Hitler hairdo” to “hateful hairdo”. (Likewise, my brother couldn’t sing the Nirvana lyric “and I don’t have a gun…”). Stupid schools. It’s Woodland Middle School in Brentwood, TN, btw, which is where I was imprisoned the last two years of high school. Brentwood is the Orange County, CA of TN.

OMG… I was actually at that Middle School performance! My little brother was also performing (some misguided Nirvana cover, I believe). My family has been looking for our tape, so we can burn it. Seeing it on Videogum is like looking through the Lost lighthouse.

I think you mean POISON.

It would be nice if, in America, we didn’t put human rights up to a vote.