The main thing occupying David Lynch's time now is his weather reporting on Twitter.

Yeah, I've been kind of pissed 0ff by Mila's continued presence. It's not that her clothes were particularly ugly (though they often were), it's that they look so rote. She never came off to me like a designer at all, but as a particularly talented amateur. I complained back in the day about how Laura's clothes…

"Totally Wired: The Rough Trade Anthology" is also a great early-years comp, with some nice live versions thrown in as well.

My way of getting around The Fall's intimidating back catalog was to shop for their albums at used record stores and letting the hand of fate dictate what my next Fall album would be.

"This Nation's Saving Grace" is a good start point, I think. You get the big poppy songs like "Spoilt Victorian Child" and "Barmy" as well as the repetitive, long-winded (in a good way) tracks like "Paintwork" and "I Am Damo Suzuki." And the CD reissue comes with "Cruiser's Creek" and "Rollin' Dany," two of the…

Collaborations
There could be a whole Gateway to Geekery for Mark E. Smith collaborations and side projects (Von Sudenfed, anyone?) alone. "I Want You" with Inspiral Carpets is probably my favorite collaborations. MES totally makes the song, especially when compared with the Smithless version on the "Devil Hopping"…

AV Club, make it so.
I don't know why there have been so many Sean O'Neal-written Newswire articles today, but I can only hope this signifies the return of Daily Buzzkills.

Judges
This review matched my feelings exactly. I love the idea of "Top Chef Masters," and I liked last season, but this episode didn't make me excited for the rest of the season. First of all, I HATE the idea of pairs for the first stage of the challenge. I'm not the biggest fan of pairs challenges to begin with,…

Huh, somehow an antecedent vanished during posting. In the third paragraph, I'm of course talking about Anthony's co-win, not Jonathan's.

WORST EPISODE EVER
Other than the welcome return of Miz Sassafrass, this episode was dire. I've stuck with Lifetime-era "Project Runway" because I still think it's an interesting show at heart. But this episode … wow. There was the return of the "design for a celebrity … OMG it's Heidi!" for the second time THIS…

Thanks for the verification, Ape.

D'oh. I completely missed that Michael was a child of the leaf sex cult, although there's no way Dobyns could have made it any more obvious. And I forgot about the leaf being the symbol of the cult. I read the novel in bits and pieces over the course of 3 weeks, so I hadn't remembered that Violet's tattoo had…

While I'm thinking about the tattoo now, what was the significance of the baby Michael having the leaf drawn on his chest in lipstick? And how did Violet find out about it? She clearly already had the tattoo before her conversation with Beetle.

Rose/Violet minor point
In my copy of the book (first edition hardcover from the library), on p.385, Dobyns refers to Violet as Rose. I'm not sure whether it's a typo or if it's the author sneaking in a bit of foreshadowing. Is this present in other editions?
*****
Violet unbuttons the top of her dress, exposing the…

In old news, Mila still has terrible taste and designs fugly clothes.
I thought Jonathan was a goner for sure. Not for his outfit, which was one of his weaker efforts, but because he dared to refute Her Majesty Michael Kors's pearls of comedic fashion wisdom. I can only hope that Jonathan's Kors impression will fill…

Swing Heil = looks like Christian Bale in Swing Kids

One of the castaways, probably MaryAnn, will be really into horrorcore
Someone's been watching Law and Order: Original Recipe!

Clearly you weren't a preteen girl in the '90s. Contempo Casuals existed!

Ann's new love. She has a habit of leaving boyfriends for the shiny new guy.

What about Maturin claiming to Dillon that he was his own cousin? I found it difficult to believe that Dillon would fall for that. Although, reflecting on it now, perhaps that was characterization as well. What point it was to make, though, I'm not sure. Did Dillon believe Maturin, showing Dillon to be the type of…