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At 6-foot-4 and 270 pounds, Rod Harrison was not a person you'd ever want to fuck with. People literally crossed the street when they saw his hulking figure walking up the sidewalk. He stepped into my life when I was 7, looming larger than life. My mom often recounted the first time she saw him back in high school, delivering a lightning-fast round kick to the temple of a classmate who dared challenge him.

Because everybody makes mistakes, but if you’re lucky, yours are not fatal. Karl found me after hearing my band OXBOW in the early ’90s. “I hated your first record,” he said. He took it back to the store, but the record’s compacted existential horror drew him back. He bought the album again, recorded it, scratched it and took it back for a full refund. He told me this later, earnestly, honestly and with a trace of a smile.

The first time that my mother threw me out was in 1968 on my sixth birthday.I don't remember what I did that set her off - was unkind to my younger brother? Refused to eat food that I didn't like? Looked at her the wrong way? - but whatever it was, she expounded at length on my unworthiness to exist, much less to be a member of our family.

EUGENE, SIR: I didn’t really know what a threesome was. I mean, I wasn’t sure when my 27-year-old sister told me that she and her boyfriend had had one. Even after I figured out what she was talking about, it didn’t shock me very much. I was, however, shocked when I found out she had it with our mother. They all have alcohol problems, but the problem is that everyone is calling me a prude because I think what they did is gross at the very least, and crazy and dangerous at the most.

The Tick lands (with a bang) on Amazon Prime on August 25. The big, blue, eccentric hero (of the super variety) is joined by his reluctant partner in thwarting evil, Arthur. Before the pair come crashing through your ISP, they've stopped by OZY to curate our Good Sh*t section and share with us some of their favorite things.The Ticktick fave thingsSource: Amazon PrimeHello, world! This is the Tick.

Following her showstopping performance at OZY Fest, 19-year-old Swedish star Zara Larrson - fresh off this year's hits "So Good," "Never Forget You" and "Ain't My Fault" - sat down with OZY to discuss her experience in finding singing success at a young age, her biggest fears about the future and the thing she would most like to change about the music industry. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW? I'm listening to a lot of U.K. hip-hop. A lot of J Hus, Young Bae, Yungun.

Join OZY as we travel through all 50 states to uncover the challenges and meet the innovators reshaping a country that's more divided than ever. In this occasional series, OZY takes to streets and neighborhoods across the globe to ask a simple question: “How was your day?” This as-told-to account has been condensed and edited for clarity. Busy. Hectic. Things happening that you’re not really prepared for. But you just have to deal with things as they come up.

As days go, this one was fairly unremarkable. I drove to work, I worked, I came home from work. My wife at the time was out with my very young daughters, and I, having gotten home before they did, had made plans to fix dinner. I pushed through the outer gate of a redwood fence a buddy and I had built around the front yard.

My ex-wife had a crazy sister who rescued animals and talked us into adopting a stray cat. Not an exotic or expensive animal. Just a regular white female cat with brown blotches. My ex named her Tessie and proceeded to neglect her, barely remembering to give her food and water. Those jobs fell on me, the bleeding-heart member of our household who also sorted the recycling and drove my two stepsons (from my ex's first marriage) to their soccer games and medical appointments.

EUGENE, SIR: A friend of mine is in misery. For the past 10 years of their marriage, her husband has not managed to give her an orgasm. He also cannot last more then five minutes in bed, according to her. She’s 35 and tells me she dreads having sex with him. “Why get dressed up for a party I’m not going to?” she says.