The first book is OK although I couldn't stop thinking of the parallels to Battle Royale—and I say that not as a huge BR fan or anything, just watched that movie once years ago.
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Second and third books are much weaker.  Very adolescent focus on bogus love triangle and transformation of the central…

Another highlight was the dirty sorority cheer—

Elliott Smith
Waltz #2 and Southern Belle and Roman Candle come to mind. I'm sure there's like a dozen other examples

Recall the episode 5, when Arya is lost in the dragon skull room while chasing cats, and overhears Varys conspiring with Magister Illyrio (the guy who was helping Viserys negotiate Daenerys's marriage to Drogo).

Wearing minks and eating golden ice cream cones
isn't half as wacky as Ghostface's apparent belief that the big time involves owning a clarks wallabees manufacturing plant.

I can't disagree with Rabin more on this one, too. Forever is a stone classic. I skip like 5 tracks (everything after Heaterz, plus plus the intro/closing/wu-revolution type stuff. That leaves a 80-90 minute long album of tunes as good as anything they produced.

Mr. Troll, Rabin's panned two of the last three Devin albums. I liked Waiting to Inhale well enough. And Eminem's last album was pretty weak.

"Ron will show you around."
"Um, right this way… is the exit."

Why this show didn't take off:
It's called "Better Off Ted." Not only do Americans rightly hate puns, but it doesn't even make a lick of sense— why would a corporate satire call for a pun on the phrase "better off dead"? It might make more sense if it was set in a mortuary or something.

You left out O.J.'s two legacies.
Heisman trophy winner, Naked Gun.

Forever's a totally solid choice. Enter the wu tang might have less filler but, you know, in the age of digital music, we can all make a wu tang forever playlist that skips black shampoo.

For guys like me who was into the whole noise rock scene (homestead records, touch & go, bands like scratch acid, foetus, swans, killdozer), big black loomed large. Not really nerds, most of the other fans of this sort of music I knew back in the 80s were more intellectual and cynical than usual ex-punk rockers.

"Bad Houses" is far from mediocre. "Jordan MN" and "Kerosene" are Big Black's greatest songs. Atomizer has better songs than anything on Songs about fucking, although I agree Songs about fucking is a little more consistent.

No, I was employed at the time. Pretty much all I was doing was going to work, coming home, and reading for 8 to 10 hours straight for those weeks. And reading all weekend long. I was pretty captivated by the book, especially once I got past the first 50 pages or so, which I admit was a bit of a slog.

You guys skipped the best gateway
from your sister publication: