Sometimes seeing a shrink for the first time makes you've triumphed over adversity. And sometimes it just makes you feel like adversity is your permanent lot in life.
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Al reps for all the "Crazy Mennonites" on the Luddite anthem that sparked the "Weird Al" Yankovic-Coolio beef that defined a generation.
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Nathan Rabin's Happy Place is now a podcast! Join Nathan Rabin (that'sa me!) and co-host Clint Worthington for the very first episode of Nathan Rabin's Happy Cast! Topics discussed include the Juggalo March on Washington, Thor: Ragnarok, Harvey Weinstein, "Weird Al" Yankovic's new tour and listener mail. LISTEN!
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You will not believe what the cute little boy from A Christmas Story looks like now.
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Conrad Murray, the "Thriller killer" who went to jail for Michael Jackson's death, also wrote one of the most amazingly terrible show-biz memoirs ever. This sick fuck inspired one of my favorite Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club entries.
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I want desperately to believe that Trump's downfall is imminent, but I've lost almost all faith in our political system and the American people.
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Heidi Klum "won" Halloween this year with an outrageous costume that, alas, did nothing to halt, or even slow, our nation's long, dispiriting march into madness.
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If I write about feeling like a failure a lot here, that's because that's often how I feel, but it's not the whole story.
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Al closes Alapalooza with an eminently "worthy" polka take on a Queen classic beloved by both Wayne and Garth.
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Louis C.K. is one of my favorite comedians and TV auteurs, but in the current cultural climate it's hard to give him the benefit of the doubt when it comes to the transgressions he's accused of.
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