Word to that, I miss the big lug, as well. I know the writers had big plans for him back in the day before he asked to be written off. Maybe the first encounter was when he was a candidate and the second was just "we need to kill this guy." Of course, they will need to explain that within the logic of the show at…

You can't kill "him"
The little boy just said you can't kill "him" not Jacob. My friend and I worked out a theory tonight that Smokey needs all the candidates dead before he can leave the island. However, he cannot kill a candidate directly. Every time he approached a castaway as the smoke monster, he was scanning…

Kevin Allison does teach at the People's Improv Theater. I noticed his photo on the wall when I went to see Comic Book Club live.

Didn't Hardcore TV start out as Pirate TV? I think they were the same show. At any rate, no one knows what I am talking about when I mention these shows. Thank you, fellow clubbers, for letting me know I am not completely mental.

Sexual Disaster Quartet
Is the name of an Irvine Welsh short story from Acid House (I think). So, somewhat literary and that has to count for something?

Also…
I have only read Magic for Beginners from this list so I can't say if these are more or less worthy of inclusion but…

That bugged me in High Fidelity because that is exactly the sort of mistake those characters would have mocked someone else for (mistaking some piece of pop culture trivia for something close but wrong). It was either the most brilliant irony ever or a complete cock up.

Just me?
I went through this list to see how many of these albums I owned (19 in all) and of those 19, about 9 or ten were albums I bought because of positive buzz that I ended up not enjoying at all. Grizzly Bear, Amy Winehouse, Sufjan Stevens, TV on the Radio, Death Cab for Cutie, etc. are all artists I have been…

I was wondering if The Fiery Furnaces "Gallowbirds Bark" would have made the list if the Dirty Projectors weren't taking up a slot. Seems a shame as that first Furnaces album got me much more excited about music than Bitte Orca.

I drove to and through Wisconsin recently on a 16 day driving tour of all 48 contiguous states (visiting haunted locations). I stopped in Madison at this old Sanitarium that had been turned into government offices. The graveyard and woods behind the building were really amazing in that a doe walked right up to me…

If you guys are in upstate South Carolina around Dec 5th (and really, why wouldn't you be?) feel free to drop in.

Halloween and my birthday
Every October for the last three years I have watched 31 horror movies during the month (old favorites and lots of stuff I have never seen). This year I had to fudge it by counting horror stories I read as part of the 31. I still think it counts.

For those reading averse types
I don't think anyone has mentioned Librivox.org yet but they have the public domain works of Lovecraft available for download. On a long car trip recently I listened to all the stories in about two sessions. The Nameless City and Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and his Family…

There is also one called "N." that was in Just After Sunset that is quite a good Lovecraftian effort.

I concur with the Girl Talk love for workouts. For some reason, when I set my ipod to shuffle it will choose a Girl Talk song 80% of the time even though I only have "Feed the Animals" amidst 3.5 days of music.

I enjoyed the books as well as the phrase "spurned love" at the end of the feeling-word paragraph. That made me laugh.

That Ziggy Stardust thing flashed up again for a split second at the very end and it leads me to believe we are missing further material while Comedy Central trumpets their ads over the ending credits.

It is only 12 issues long (with one page per story per issue) I believe so I imagine it will be one or two volumes when collected. Each collected story will only be twelve pages long, though, so I doubt there will be a "just the Batman" trade or anything like that. I wonder how the art will work reduced to standard…

I really liked it but I felt like it covered some of the same ground as Alex Robinson's Too Cool To Be Forgotten.

Discontinued
You all probably know Archway's Lemon frosted cookies but for a brief span in my childhood, they were all about the orange frosting. The cookies were so soft and delicious…the frosting so plastic-y but good. Those were the days.