My usual technique is to put a bottle of wine in the freezer, crack open a really good beer, have like six or seven more, then forget about it because by then I don’t really want wine anymore.

It’s a little carb-heavy, but I have a fuckin’ awesome beer bottle cap collection.

Before tackling Gravity’s or V and the like, get your first taste of Pynchon with The Crying of Lot 49. It’s my favorite Pynchon, if only for the inspired parody of a Jacobean Revenge Drama.

Inherent Vice is actually quite fun and one of his most accessible books.

This stuff comes in threes.

You have to patrol Lake Titicaca. Otherwise who will protect you from 8 year olds making jokes?

A related joke that ties into both navies of landlocked nations and Igny’s recent post about humor in totalitarian regimes:

a reed canoe (not the navy’s lone boat)

Good luck to you, Russell! After my divorce when I auctioned off my possessions- lawn mower missing a wheel, blade-less blender, an ‘88 Taurus with punctured gas tank, nearly-complete set Police Academy posters, etc. I got money for a night in Vegas which I actually had to send on bail as I got pulled over on my way…

In Marilyn Manson’s defense, it wasn’t great at the time, either.

“Hurray!” ~ Dads

Hopefully they’ll torrent it.

“... and he disrespected the Wu-Tang Clan.”

...off of a killer album. That album seriously melts my face off.

The Libertines’ “Up the Bracket” is goddamn joyful. I love that album. Also, “You Forgot it in People” is perfect, from beginning to end.

It made my day to see “To Hell With Good Intentions” on here. Absolutely killer song.

Troy McClure fans, eh?

Psychocandy gets all the hype, but I’ll always like Darklands more. 

Kate Bush - Cloudbusting

Spoon - Anything You Want