Cleaning Out Our Closets

In another world and under another identity, Reason's editor-in-chief Nick Gillespie and I used to write for a fondly remembered web site called Suck.com. One of our little jeu d'esprit's done for the site involved predicting the swift self-neutering of the former bad influence Eminem aka Slim Shady aka Marshall Mathers aka that really boring guy who used to produce inexcusably fun music.

Viewers (and I sympathize with each and every one of you) of Eminem's video for his latest sententious, tedious serioso tearjerker--what did youthful hellions ever see in this guy?--"When I'm Gone" will recognize this scene, hideously envisioned by Nick and I with the brilliant cartooning skills of Terry Colon well nigh five years ago. Don't ask us to play Criswell again--the knowledge we hold is too hideous to be freely shared.