Thank God for Miley. The VMAs have been boring as fuck for a decade.

I figured it was the easiest way to provide people with the title, ISBN and any info they might need to look for it locally.

I will caution that I am seriously biased as I:

Gossip Girl, but that was after the show had been on the air for a couple of seasons, and from a ratings perspective, it was never a hit.

Huzzah! In that case, I imagine it'll be available in the next 6 months or so.

Nah — it literally came out yesterday. It'll probably need to win a major literary award to get stocked anywhere outside of Western Canada, but we'll see.

Sorry, c/ping:

It's based on the editorial staff of the school paper at my alma mater, SFU. From what I understand, it's meant to be an updated "campus novel" — booze, drugs and serious over-statements about sexual activity coupled with a hipster-y, out-of-touch writing staff trying to blame a free local paper for "stealing" its…

You know, people point to that all the time, but where were the other opposite-parallels that came true?

If we want to start talking about books for fall, I'd like to make a shameless plug for the first novel from an amazing Canadian reviewer, writer, dad and feminist.

Actually, the best example of that is probably The Confidence Man, his last book. If you read them both as allegories about American arrogance, they make for interesting reading.

There's more homo-eroticism in Billy Budd, to be honest. And it's about 1/100th the size of Moby-Dick. So no, I don't buy the phallus theory.

If anyone has David Morrissey's number, I will gladly call the Governor.

Was it the Paley Center panel?

I hated Tara, too, but mostly because I felt like the "Willow is suddenly gay" thing seemed forced and Tara was kind of a non-character. Not that Oz wasn't a non-character, but... you know.

Yep — immature and, frankly, subscribing to silly notions of masculinity or leadership.

Judging by Robot Chicken, I'm sure he does like the material. And I'm also (sadly) sure you're right about the "real" him. But Oz is Forever, man.

Yeah — exactly. But the male students especially couldn't understand how a weak character might be someone's favorite.

Yeah — our Professor told the class that Starbuck was his favorite character, and when we finished the book someone said, "But, uh... Starbuck's a wimp and just lets everything happen. Why would he be your favorite character?"

The snob issue is annoying. Nobody would call an engineer a snob for knowing more about engineering. Or an IT Support guy isn't a snob for knowing more about computers. 150 years ago, novels were considered trashy and insubstantial and now they're high art. It's all relative.