Ok, I admit it. I sometimes read Dan Savage's "Savage Love" column that appears in one of our local artsy-fartsy "Bush is Evil" weekly newspapers. Aside from the fact that the sexual freaks who write in to his column make me feel good for being so damned normal by comparison, I've found his advice for these poor souls surprisingly sensible and his politics fairly libertarian.

This week's column had a line about the goth scene that struck me as really funny:

I've never actually seen an extremely beautiful goth girl myself--most of them seem to have weight problems, which has always struck me as strangely contradictory. From the neck up, the look cultivated by goth girls seems to say, "Oh, we despair of this world and long for the sweet embrace of death!" From the neck down, their look seems to say, "I'll take the bacon cheeseburger, two orders of fries, and a Diet Coke, please."