Everybody’s favorite page from “Body Talk,” including mine. When I read this piece on tour, boys told me that they’d felt the same way about Sailor Moon.

Everybody’s favorite page from “Body Talk,” including mine. When I read this piece on tour, boys told me that they’d felt the same way about Sailor Moon.

On New Year’s Eve in 2012, John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats tweeted:

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This echoed the Mountain Goats’ song “This Year,” in which Darnielle sings verses about being 17, when his stepfather beat him, and he tore himself down with booze. Then he gets to the chorus: