Last night, I had a dream that I was at an event where you were the key-note speaker (don't recall the context). When they opened the floor to Q&A, the room fell silent. So, I shouted from the back of the room "PLAY WHIPPING POST!!!" It wasn't well received by the audience. Pizza! Pizza!

PL: I can only surmise this is why you were not allowed into the debate last night. I'd have paid $500 for someone to scream that at those two chuckleheads.

"What about green technologies? We can change the whole economy by starting a green revolution and I want to know what you think about that Senator--"

"WHIPPING POST! WHIPPING POST!"

Brokaw: "I apologize to the audience. It appears an inebriate is repeatedly demanding the candidates play a twelve minute jam anthem by the well known Southern Rock band, The Allman Brothers.

"Tom, I, uh-- I--"

"Excuse me, Senator Obama?"

"Tom, if you have a harmonica, I can do 'Elizabeth Reed.'"

"I don't think we have the time. Perhaps 'Rambling Man?'"

"Ramblin', Tom. It's 'Ramblin.'"

"That's what I said."

"MOUNTAIN JAM!"

"Please, security, remove that man. I apologize to the viewing audience. We didn't hedge against streaking."

"You see, Tom. This is what's wrong with America!"

"Senator McCain, please, give us a moment."

"No, Tom. This is what's wrong with the country. What kind of man dies his pubic hair green?"

"Oh, uhhh... that is, uh, awfully disturbing."

CUT TO KEITH OLBERMANN IN STUDIO: "There you see it, ladies and gentleman! An obvious McCain supporter threatening the life of Senator Obama and everyone in the audience! Brandishing an axe and dual machine guns, and screaming about black helicopters and killing Democrats! Anything to save McCain from losing the debate!

CUT TO RACHEL MADDOW: "Everything you said, Keith. I agree. Tune in next hour, where I will parahprase everything you have said and offer it in an almost identical inflection."

CUT TO CHRIS MATTHEWS: "Oh, my God! He's tackling Brokaw. The humanity! The depravity! In all my years I've never seen ANYTHING like this! Senator Obama, do something!"

"Look son, you ate some orange sunshine. But just remember... You're a living organism on this planet, and you're very safe. You've just taken a heavy drug. Relax, stay inside and listen to some music, Okay? Do you have any, uh..."

"Allman Brothers? Is that what you were going to ask me?"

"My, we've come full circle here."

I have been a reader for two or three years and I am really enjoying this series of interviews. I am counting the days until my pre-ordered 'Happy Hour' arrives in the mail.

I'm a student at a Big Ten school and am "a creative thinker, but not exactly a math mind (or at least not interested enough in right brain work to major in Economics or Business or do a Pre-med program), college is cruel. [My] friends go off to work in finance and [I]'ve been raised at a certain standard of living that requires a sizable salary, but what's [my] skill? [I] can write, but what's a journalist make? [I] can speak, but what good is that? Law's the default career."

I find your experience and advice in the field incredibly valuable, but am afraid your book might do for me what "Jarhead" by Anthony Swofford (a book very critical of the Marine Corps, modern war, and military life in general) did for my twin brother a few years ago - it inspired him to join NROTC as a Marine Option for a career in "the suck."

PL: Make your own decisions. I'm but one writer riffing one way. Others have different opinions. Absorb them all.

Just thought I'd let you know your shrinktalk link has the wrong address.

On another note, I'm not one to douse people with the same old praise they get from everyone else. And while I'm sure you don't mind all the ego stroking, I feel like you couldn't care less about what people think. Just figured if I was going to finally make a comment I'd let you know I've been reading since well before you moved to Rudius and I've rarely been disappointed in your writing.

But, I still have trouble accepting that you think AC/DC is the greatest band of all time. Don't get me wrong, when I hear "It's a Long Way to the Top" I'm ready to rock out with the best of 'em. There's just way too much riff recycling, and nothing AC/DC did will ever rock in the way that "No Quarter" rocks.

PL: Thanks for the heads up. On the AC/DC thing, consider it this way. I make fun of advocacy here, and that is partly a play on the idea of advocacy's absurdities. Clearly, AC/DC isn't the greatest band of all time. But they "arguably" are, and I happen to like them as much as any other band, including Zeppelin. And if you can argue it, well that's all that matters in America anymore, isn't it?

I think, if I recall it exactly, Donika's observation when we started writing that piece was, "AC/DC is a like a big cloud - omnipresent culturally and never addressed." I figured they were a perfect "middle" for most people from which I could make fun of lesser and greater bands.

Personally, however, they are one of my favorite bands of all time. Yes, above Zeppelin. I know, I know... That's heresy.

Thanks for reading all these years, and thanks for reading that piece. I love the opening dialogue, the brief, everything about it. I still say it's the best oddball social commentary I've done yet.