I, too, wholeheartedly approve. That little dollop of sweat…makes me want to add a little dollop of my own.

Off topic but…
am I missing something? Where are my Daily Buzzkills? Have they been moved? I've got a pretty serious buzz going here and it needs some killin'!

@True Story: I haven't read the book yet so I can't comment on whether the AV Club grade is inflated, but I'm glad you mentioned the similarities between Kill Bill and Vineland. I wonder if Tarantino read the book…

Nice to see all the Pynchon love…
Also nice to see this book got such a solid review. Pynchon truly is an author worthy of all the superlatives.

All this talk of hand pussy and dozy twat is given me a hankerin' for a wankerin'.

@Henry: Thanks for that Werewolf Barmitzvah reference. You just made my morning.

Where is everybody?
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The Color of Money 2: Hey guys, Paul Newman don't look so hot.

Cocktail 2: Don't act like you wouldn't still fuck the pants off Elisabeth Shue and Gina Gershon.

@Bzudo2: that comment just about had me spewing coffee all over my desk. Very nicely done.

@TomWaits: That was a truly depressing list. Seeing all those things mentioned in a single sentence made me die a little inside.

Ha ha! You're probably right. But a man can dream can't he?

@Ravenpen: You're right about Nabokov; he's pretty tough to beat when it comes to the style/substance balance. Still, if I had to choose, I would prefer to read a book that was a bit heavily weighted toward the style end of the spectrum than one that sacrificed style for substance (like a book that was little more…

@Shane Danielsen: I agree with the Faulkner comparison, too. I guess the influence from Hemingway is more in the dialogue than anything else (at least it is in the Border Trilogy).

I can understand just simply not liking McCarthy because he's not to your taste, but he's an undeniably great writer. I think a lot of you are mistaking style for affectation, and seeing writing that's carefully pared down as being overwrought. And 'purple prose'? Whoever mentioned Anne Rice was way closer to the…

Chasin' Chubb
I'm just waiting on the day Mariah Carey gets super, grotesquely fat; I'm talking so fat, Kirstie Alley will look diminutive beside her. And when that day comes, my friends, I will do all that is humanly possible to pound that ass senseless. I'm not talking metaphorically senseless, either. I mean she…

JCrowemancer: I checked. You're not people anymore. It's time to move on and stop buying cds, too. You'll get over it eventually.

Switters, is that Al Swearengen in your avatar? If so, you're all right in my books.