@Chuliost: Every single thing (and I present this categorically) that is created for the purpose of persuasion is propaganda by definition. Whether it's Goebbels-level propaganda or Moore playing with the facts or even someone just making an honest political film (or trying to), anything persuasive is propaganda. It…

I call Charles Manson.

Er, I mean I was using A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering genius as something that is VERY pretentious and precious

I don't much care for the HDB canon myself, but the next two selections are hardly hipster d-bag. We've read Master and Commander, remember? Hardly hipster material. Riddley Walker? Little, Big? Although the day we pick Lowboy is the day I leave.

Is that a joke? Because I thought Chicky Hines was male. Anyway, that seems to be old news.

I was kidding, I'll read anything the book club picks, (except Destroy She Said, just couldn't do it). Just mocking the people who, on every single WUiB post, take the time to post suggestions. Failed joke.

Not being a lawyer, does this only apply to selling a product? What if I just wrote a book and used the word droid in it? It's derivative of a real word? Wtf?

Great, I'll keep an eye on those places

I think it was an OD. I remember being crushed when I heard the news-I had the hugest crush on her back in the day. But after the recent AV Club review of Todd Bridges memoir, every time I think of her (admittedly, not often), I picture him piping her in the living room while Coleman watches.

Meh
Don't really feel like reading either of those? Can we pick another? I'm what counts around here anyway.

Was anyone on that show not fucked up or a fuck up in some way? Textbook young idiot celebrity. Todd Bridges, Dana Plato, fuckups and idiots, all of them.

I don't know if its the kidney problems per se. I knew a guy about Coleman's size in high school with heart problems. The hormonal (or whatever) medication stunted his growth.

Ah, I blitzed through Inherent Vice last summer, but if it comes to it, I'll reread it. Pynchon is one of the few authors who has infinite reread value for me.

I think actually that one of the most poignant means of character development/partial redemption/self-discovery for Dexter, if it's not done in a ham-fisted way, would be at the end of the series, where Deb finds out and he's essentially in a position where he has to choose between self-preservation and Deb's life.…

Don't forget the grandparents. I hate to give the writers too much credit, but it seems, in retrospect, like they were setting up for the kids to go live with Rita's parents. I'm not sure if they could legally force them away from Dexter, but I doubt he would fight them. He'd probably think it was in their best…

I wonder
What they've come up with for season 4. I hated season 3 and loved 4 when I watched them, but I've come to appreciate the slow burn yet somewhat weak Smits season. As awesome as Lithgow and Hall are, 4 has no rewatch value to me-way too much Angel and LaGuerta and Quinn go nowhere bullshit subplots.

Speaking of Pulp/Mystery/Crime
I've damn near exhausted Chandler and Pelecanos and Leonard (yes I'm lumping them together).

Did Vadim Rizov
Write a preventative firstie?

If you can track it down, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown is one of Almodovar's earlier ones (late 80s?) and my favorite of his movies. But I'm not sure if it's available outside of Europe (I only managed to see it because my college cinema screened it). It's more restrained than his more silly (but still…

Crosstalk
As long as you're linking to one, I have to say you guys are overdue for another; I love those