The Venture Bros. Season Three
"Shadowman 9: In the Cradle of Destiny"
"The Doctor Is Sin"
"The Invisible Hand of Fate"
"Home Is Where the Hate Is"
"The Buddy System"
"Doctor Quymn, Medicine Woman"
""What Goes Down, Must Come Up"
"Tears of a Sea Cow"
"Now Museum, Now You Don't"
"The Lepidopterists"
"ORB"
(cont'd)

Irrevocable Shackles
My congratulations to Skeeter upon her engagement to Jimmy From Queens! The tricky bit will be making it down Mexico way for the nuptials. Hmmm, perhaps something involving smuggling....

The larger matter of course is that the ranks of Team Bachelor seem to be thinning even more quickly than my hair. *rimshot* Skeeter is becoming Mrs. From Queens, The Watergirl is cohabiting with The Giver... these girls were Team Bachelor's stalwarts! When such as they are seduced by the power of The Marrieds, what hope can there be that the light of bachelorhood is not going out from the universe? Fear not, hope remains, endures in contradictory nature of Team Bachelor. Recall the wisdom of the Bard, "The lady doth protest too much, methinks." The Watergirl railed more fiercely than any other against the insidious conformity of The Marrieds. Skeeter ever described herself as "not the type." Yet we all know that treason is at the very heart of Team Bachelor. None wishes to submit to the tyranny of The Marrieds, but all yearn for the splendor of wedded bliss. Mayhap their ferocity was a smokescreen, a guise to obscure covetous intent. Mayhap in their hearts they never owed allegiance to Team Bachelor. And thus are they absolved, for one cannot betray that to which one was never loyal.

And again, this contradiction is woven into Team Bachelor's very fabric. Every well intentioned member of Team Bachelor looks forward to the days when his comrades forswear their oaths and join in common cause with The Marrieds, those curs. I am very happy for Skeeter, as I will be for The Watergirl should she formalize her defection. There is no sadder fate than to be a lifetime member of Team Bachelor. And though things are beginning to look a little lonely up here in the senior division, there are new generations of Team Bachelor being repulsed by the excesses of The Marrieds every single day. Hope endures. Team Bachelor endures!

The Rebel Black Dot Song of the Day
Nirvana, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" from Nevermind (T.L.A.M.)

Commentary: And so concludes our "Smells Like Teen Spirit" triptych. My thanks to Paul Anka and Tori Amos, and most especially to the late Kurt Cobain. I would hope that he found in death the peace that eluded him in life, but of course suicide is a mortal sin from which there is no forgiveness 'til kingdom come.