breakfast table
lunch table
dinner table

boy, i'll bet spike lee deplores the turn this thread has taken.

Bobby Darin's "More"

Honest and Popular don't go hand-in-hand
My first thought was "is that line from "Clothesline Saga" but O that reference made me happy. Great song! ISHTAR 4-eva!

RE: "he's never done anything this unique or wonderful before or since"
The book of poetry called "Pallbearers Envying the One Who Rides" comes close—and Cold Dog Soup is pretty unique, as well.

applause for Victor Mature

Millicent, you're magnificent.

It is truly terrible

I have a crush on Lovecraft in Brooklyn

Not trolling: Can someone explain to me, briefly or at length, what is great about Bag of Bones? That's the Mike Noonan one, right?

And along with the tragically-killed brother, the neglectful/wistful/"wish it had been you instead, son" parents

Couldn't finish Desperation or The Regulators; the short story about the evil dead rock and roll town is just terrible; Black House *stinks* (especially since I really like The Talisman) Insomnia—pretty bad, except I did kinda like that the protags were oldies…Bag of Bones, wicked bad and nearly senseless. But I like…

I should have paid attention to the wavy red line

Nick Cave has begun to use the Mad Lib Nack Cave song generator and we all know it.

It's that Cadillac ad that gets me. But then, a Cadillac is a good car to drive after a war.

Rose City Rollers!

The Year of the Flood
Anyone care to discuss both novels over a bucket of ChickieNobs?

well not wikipedia, but a set of 1969 World Book Encyclopedia.

haysoos & custer's revenge—-i'm glad this is cleared up for me, now. i can unreservedly love this song again.
and the word ossicles is just adorable. win win win for me!

anybody ever see that saturday night live with sigourney weaver, where they accidentally shoot E.T. & then panic and douse him with booze and put a gun in his um paw & say he came in threatening them? that was great.