We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it’s time we paid some damn attention to them.

So we’ll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day’s work. Maybe two comments, even.

This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involving wit, clarity and whatever else we feel like at the moment.

We pointed to an old interview by alleged ex-wife dismemberer Grant Haze, a singer who said his greatest influences were Sting and Lionel Richie (in terms of music, not ex-wife dismembering, we assume.)

One reader noted a similarity to a fictional character.

Katy wrote:

Lionel Richie and Sting, huh?

Reminds me of “American Psycho” and its discussion of Genesis and Huey lewis…

What is it with (real and fictional) killers and 80’s pop?

This article appears in Jul 21-27, 2011.