With all due respect, Phodreaw, law school is becoming much and much less of a sure thing. The legal market is utterly tanking and leaving people either unemployed, in massive debt, or both. You've really gotta go in with your budget done, and your eyes wide open, knowing right away that your grades better…

Thanks! Sounds about right to me. I've wanted to eat at a Batali-owned place for a while now, and Babbo seems like the place to start.

I keep waiting for Deadwood to come around on the HBO recycler (their on Demand thing) much like the first season of The Wire. I'm about to give in and just mail back the Netflix videos to move the queue along.

Aren't they the same thing?

@Fast Zombie

A similar book in tone is Camus' "The Fall," though Camus is arguing for something radically different than Dostoevsky.

Notes From Underground's narrator reminded me of Eminem, and I'd read the book before I'd listened to him, which was back when Marshall Mathers LP came out. A national pundit also once said something about it (independent thought here, though) and I've been unable to shake the similarities of tone, meta-commentary,…

I stopped watching MacGruber halfway in — even the irony couldn't carry it — and thoroughly enjoyed Hot Tub, so…

I also fail at Gravity's Rainbow (I said it above, sorry) and Arrested Development. Arrested Development I can see people enjoying, though. I just have limited time in my life to invest in unreal and self-absorbed characters that teach me little, or don't bring me joy in some way.

I couldn't make it through ten pages of Gravity's Rainbow. I didn't want to fight through abstract pop culture references the whole way. The first line is brilliant, though. A real grabber. I also keep resolving to try it again and keep failing to do so, so I'm lowering the bar for myself.

*a longboard

Limeade Youth,

I think "They'll Need A Crane" most overtly lends itself to the pun/pain thing you all mention, by the way. When I finally started to appreciate TMBG as more than a novelty/humor band, I was blown away by the bleakness and cleverness of it.

If you can tell from my avatar how I feel about this album
(plus it gave me an anon pun) well…