Welcome to another episode of the Savage Love podcast—your one-stop for all the gritty, skanky sex column advice you could ever want. Today’s golden question: To fuck, or not to fuck?

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This week on 3-Minute Limit, your non-robotic unit host known as Lance Chess pops open the door on the control panel and runs a diagnostic on week two of the Robotica series. Listen to songs by Apparat Organ Quartet &Servotron and rock out with your clock out.

Lets face it, reading the Mercury is hard. There are just too many words, not to mention the ink that coats your fingers with every page you turn. So in an effort to stop the plague of literacy, we bring you Easier Than Reading, a musical podcast dedicated to the bands we cover in each week’s issue. Hosted by professional mumbler, and music editor, Ezra Ace Caraeff, this week: Songs by The Gossip, Arbouretum, Brand New and more!

Matt is dumbfounded that Magenta can’t remember the first guy she ever danced with. Magenta is dumbfounded at the way Matt weeps every time he plays the Clash. Songs by The Exploding Hearts, the B-52’s, and a special DEVO-licious dedication to the Slingshot Lounge on episode 11 of PURE POD FOR NOW PEOPLE!

This week Dave Allen has an indie-Americana feel—lots of good stuff! Here’s the playlist:

01. Imaad Wasif - “Out in the Black” from the CD Imaad Wasif.
02. Rickie Lee Jones - “Long Journey Home” from the CD Ghostyhead.
03. Son Volt - “Slow Hearse” from the album The Search.
04. Wilco - “What Light” from the CD Sky Blue Sky.
05. Bonnie Prince Billy - “Dreaming my Dreams” from the EP I Am Drinking Again.
06. Son Volt - “Methamphetamine” from the album The Search.

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