Infinite Jest-adjacent upvote!

Ill-fitting or no, I'd watch Zombie's Rambo or a Coen Brothers Little Shop in a heartbeat.

I picked Clive Barker's Books of Blood off my shelf yesterday after having some trouble deciding what to go with. 50 or so pages in and it is exactly what I needed following a crunch of academic reading.

Physical nausea from a piece of pop culture is a high bar to clear for me, but it has happened. I read Robert Graysmith's book on the Zodiac Killer when I was young — 6th or 7th grade — and terrified myself to the point of feeling sick. The tire iron scene in Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door did it, but I finished…

I had a thing as a kid where I refused to watch cartoons I deemed "ugly," so I skipped Rugrats, Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, Ren and Stimpy, Rocko, Angry Beavers, The Wild Thornberries, et al. Left me with a lot of material to discover as a 420-friendly teen/young adult.

I have a couple different opinions about that one, but I'm torn.

I read Lightning in middle school and it hit so many buttons for me at the time: Nazis, time travel, various graphic and heart-wrenching deaths, a badass female author as the main character. I re-read it a couple years back and it is still good, pulpy fun.

Death and the Maiden?

I paid the extra couple hundred bucks (a decent chunk of change, to me) and dealt with the hassle because I couldn't bear to put my cat in the hold on a flight between coasts. I sedated him — not a fun experience in itself — 'cause the vet said he'd sleep through the flight, but for the majority he was awake,…

My esoteric hatreds are numerous.
The A.V. Club

Mike is definitely the worse of the two.

Fair point, grain of salt is always necessary when talking about reality TV. Specifically, it was the episode in which they bilked a WWII vet —
who did not seem all there, upstairs — out of the sword he brought back from Japan that soured me on them. Even if they're invited into these peoples homes / barns / whatever,…

The two guys from American Pickers are manipulative assholes.

A pedant's pet peeve, but "loathe" in the second paragraph of the essay should be "loath" and it bothers me. Possibly the word is undergoing one of those descriptive shifts where the meaning is changing to suit its usage, because I see the error a lot.

I was convinced for a while that I only liked it best because it was the first of theirs I listened to, but no, there's something going on there that is missing from their other albums.

Holy shit, Uniracers. Haven't thought about that game in 15 years.

Kill Bill 1 & 2 together make my favorite Tarantino for a bevy of personal reasons, but Jackie Brown is objectively his best film. *cues up Across 110th Street*

I can understand finding him slight in comparison to the praise he gets, especially in this last round of laudatory press for Bardo. Tenth of December is indicative of his other shorts, but the extended length and historical fiction angle differentiate it from his pet themes and structures. I personally didn't think…

I haven't gotten to The Fireman, but from having read his other books I can confirm that he is able to stick the landing on endings. I read - probably on here - that he helped with the ending for 11.22.63, which would explain why it was better than the back end of most late King.

Anything in particular putting you off the Saunders other than whom you got it from? I haven't been reading as much as I'd like lately, but I listened to the audio book and was impressed. I'm a fan of his, though, and would have been surprised if I hadn't liked it.