I think Lonesome is a better record but man do I like Long Drive just a little bit better. I guess it was from all of the drives I took across the Midwest when I was in college. That is the perfect record for driving across the wide open skies & plains of the Midwest.

I think you've really hit on why I haven't really liked much of their stuff since Good News. Its not bad its just a little too polished. I think Moon and Good News really played well with the line between lo-fi and surprisingly perfectly polished that the departure from straight lo-fi (all their earlier work). I mean…

1. Lonesome Crowded West
2. Long Drive…
3. Moon & Antarctica
4. Good News
5. Building Something…
6. Sad Sappy Sucker
7. We Were Dead…

and?

Its not a new book edition. Its a book regarding the exhibit put on regarding Watterson's work as a cartoonist. It's title is literally Exploring Calvin and Hobbes: An Exhibition Catalogue. Seriously go to the Amazon page and click look inside: http://www.amazon.com/Explo… It's pictures of the exhibit and the full…

Congrats on not reading the article at all

I got to sample some Macallan 25 thanks to a well off older cousin last Thanksgiving. Damn that is some good scotch.

I read the Hobbit in 4th/5th grade or somewhere around that time and I loved it so I picked up Lord of the Rings not long after and it was the perfect time for me. It was the first "long" "adult" book that I really read. I had loved to read growing up and plowed through all the prerequiste "children's" literature at…

A dash Olive Oil & Vinegar too and maybe some fresh cracked pepper and a sprinkle of sea salt? Or are we assuming that oil-cured sun-dried tomatoes have enough moisture to make up for it

That's reminds me of the Homer vs PBS episode with the Fresca/Bull Urine. Though I do quote "I'm not not licking toads from that episode often.

You can't have a Kent quote without "And I for one welcome our new insect overlords. I’d like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves."

I say that one regardless of parking situation, in fact I say that most times I leave a car.

A classic amongst my friends was whenever someone was getting upset we would quote this line.

Sorry - my sarcasm detector broke - apparently something to do with Poe's Law

Wait - why do you feel bad for them? You said you felt bad and then proceed to give a huge explanation about why they are the worst.

We got a live one folks!

I hope this is good I don't want to go off on a tRantor on it!

That sentiment really applies in a lot more places than people actually use it.

Wait - the average person can only hold their breath for 30 seconds before passing out? I'm glad I spent countless minutes of my childhood practicing holding my breath just in case a situation arose where I would have to be underwater for long periods of time. I think I almost made it to 3 minutes at one point.

The only autographs I have come from authors. Living in Austin, we have a giant independent book store here that has book signs at least a couple times a month. They are notable enough that we have had quite a few big name authors come through. So for myself I've got Jeffery Eugenides signature on The Marriage Plot,…