I'm just a simple country lawyer. I may not work in a fancy skyscraper like them "big-city lawyers," but I know the law as well as them

What a great toon. It won an Oscar

I just read the NYBooks piece about her. Wow. She did live quite the life

Answer to Leonard's question
I did not enjoy the book but I didn't feel like it was pretentious. (A short side note: I would actually would have preferred the book with a pretentious vibe, as it is now it was a book I did not enjoyed and I can't even feel good about myself for reading something sophisticated.) I think…

And both are available at my local library!

I have been waiting a long time for this article! I just wish it was written a year ago - before I set out own my own- to serve as a guide

Fivestring, I feel the same way. I don't mean to sound like someone who hates something just because he doesn't understand it, but I didn't understand this book and I hated it. I had trouble following who was talking, but thanks to that interview I see that was not important. What I got out of this book was that the…

Thanks Rowan!

Secrets
My favorite "Celebrity Secrets" on Conan was his: I used to think the "M.C." in M.C. Hammer stood for Michael Caine. When I found out it didn't, I had his career destroyed.

I thought tobacco did survive. Were rizlas just the tobacco paper and not any tobacco?

I completely missed any mention of people escaping to space. I was planning on re-reading this later anyway, I'll have to watch for that. And I agree about it being a localized world. Most people would have no reason to venture far away from home; there's no herds of animals to follow and with the transition to…

Post-apocalyptic
I am a sucker for post-apocalyptic stories (even Waterworld). I think it is because they take places and things that I am very familiar with and change the rules and customs into a world I would not feel comfortable occupying. I found it interesting what aspects of civilization found there way into…

As far as super popular (even your mom knows about them) bands go, Coldplay is probably the best out there right now. So even if you don't like them, be glad that their existence is preventing another Nickelback from hitting it big

I understand your concern that a writing can be too complex to truly enjoy reading if you spend most of the time trying to decipher just what you are reading. Luckily for me, I managed to "get" the language before I was too frustrated to continue reading. The outside sources were a very big help as a supplement to…

Maybe because Life Pursuit was my exposure, it is my favorite album of theirs. If I had followed the band since the beginnings I may have the same feelings, but as it is I LOVE every album except Fold You Hands and even that gets a C+/B- from me.

I'm only through three chapters right now and luckily I do have a free weekend to try and get through this. It it taking me forever to get through because I have to read almost everything phonetically. Does it get easier once you are used to the style?

@Binky

I spent the day with my boss's 18 year old son the other week. He listens to Sublime and 311…and he was born in 1992! He was 4 when that guy died. There's no reason those bands should be popular with high schooler kids now

Second the love for Fat old hairy white guy's Hercules comment. I also recognize very very little from this CD. It was weird to finally hear one of Jessica Simpson's songs.

Damn right Tasha. The sad thing is I mumble my speech LESS when I drink. And the "too" was no typo. I admit it was placed in a part of the sentence that made it seem like a typo. What I meant was that you could add alcoholic in addition to the other ingredients (two o's).