oh boy clickbait

or palo alto

honestly idr either, but "poc given embarrassing noun for a name" is pretty standard chain-email-from-that-one-uncle humor

sam lipsyte's actually pretty awful at writing about anything other than straight white men — e.g., i didn't think naming a black lady character in the ask "vagina" as a gag was especially funny/edgy

one possible issue w/ his criticism is that his writing voice is ignatius reilly to a fucking tee

pretty over nyc literarilywise atm, doesn't seem to produce much beyond bad sam lipsyte clones

the great leap forward captured the chinese market too

the circle reads like a promising first draft of a ca. 1999 michael crichton technothriller

no prob

you know i have never had this much trouble avoiding spoilers for a tv program before — the god damn dvd case spioled kay, bollander, et al getting shot

bayliss is a scumbag who literally robbed a convenience store and also tried to defend his racist ass cousin who shot the turkish trick or treater pembleton would never get with that

it's like i'm really in syracuse

the man who loved children by christina stead — just make sure you bill it as a heartwarming abc family/hallmark domestic dramedy

should have been gandolfini

each review earned you a coupon for 10% off your next maxi skirt

I Know Why The Caged Bird Zings

and the tv series based on friday the 13th and nightmare on elm street were so good and not embarrassing

using brats for pigs in a blanket is a righteous idea

your mother and i are very proud

there's an episode of julia up on youtube, it's pretty interesting — like the theme of it is that prejudice and stereotyping are wrong (because the stuffy old lady down the hall thinks julia's son drew on the wall) but then like cindy brady guest stars and julia's son is playing with her and another boy and says…