Are you a true ad-dict? You can keep abreast with everything that happens here via email, simply choose to get notifications on your account page. Click "my notify" and you'll find a page full of cute radio-buttons like so:

Once you choose to enable this, an email will arrive every three days telling you what's up, if you've chosen to be notified of posts only, that's all you'll get. If you also want to check comments, you'll get links to the posts where everyone is chatting as well.

There's a lighter version of this, you can pick and choose which threads/posts you want to listen to as well with the similar "subscribe" option, explained in the next Q.