Only if its Holy Schmalz. Accept no substitutes.

I've read Life a dozen times, it's one of my all-time favourite books. Perec is one of those authors who make me wish I was fluent enough in French to really appreciate the original. W I liked, but I found A Void near unreadable - too much of a constraint. I wish he had time to finish 53 Days, it held a lot of…

I agree - I laughed out loud several times reading this one. I give it an "A"

I've actually got a package of non-consecrated hosts that I plan on using for canapes if someone ever comes to visit me.

Is it short for fUCKinG?

It's the slickest gig you've ever seen.

"Hard Times"
- puts the Dick back in Dickens

The Old Curiosity Shop of Horrors

I'm totally with you on that Lovecraft. I had been into those Robert A. Wilson books as a teen but when I read Foucault's Pendulum I realized just how laughably shody they were. Eco is actually *smart*, which no other writer on conspiracies seems to be.

Awesome first job, I agree. My first job was shoveling wet sand in the bottom of of a deep hole in the blistering heat. Coincidentally, I stank and was full of bugs.

Rogue film school
Yeah, they're dangerous when they go rogue. They'll be out there on the plain, grazing peacefully then suddenly snap and trample a whole fine art college to the dust. Seen it happen before.

It seems to me that there is a problem. Those that believe the characters and situations are well founded in reality don't think the movie is mean-spirited, while those that think the movie is cartoonish think it is. Its either a lovingly detailed examination of this world or a nasty send-up of it.

I thought Pedro symbolized Emperor Maximilian, the Napoleanic puppet. Was Pedro a Hapsburg heir? How does Manet "Execution" fit into this?

I didn't love this movie, but I did quite like it. And like many people have said above, the characters are utterly believable - there were easily a half-dozen Napoleons in my circle of friends. I even know a Kip who's married his LaFonda and are raising their first child.

@udjibjmasmdf (sp?), you mean you don't view this as some terrible guilty secret like the rest of us do?

She would drink half a bottle of Grand Marnier and have a meltdown, stagger weeping into the street and then start screaming at neighbours and passers-by "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU LOOKING AT?" like a giant, brightly coloured Courtney Love.

As a counterpoint, I want Burl to do a commentary track on Crank 2.

That's what you get for going out with an opto-dentist.

My kid's school forbids them from playing *tag* - too violent, somebody might get hurt.

There was a girl in high school we used to call "painful rectal itch"