Eh, I see your point, but other novels have been written about nuclear holocausts in which nobody was afraid to use the term. Although Beckett would have agreed with you: he specifically directed that "Endgame" be about an unnamed disaster and not about The Bomb dropping. But that's also a much more self-contained…

I haven't read Yu's short stories, but I liked his novel. Made me nostalgic for the lo-res internet of old.

Iris Murdoch A Word Child
Julio Cortázar Todos los Fuegos, El Fuego

I seem to be one the few people out there who thinks it's overheated, overpraised nonsense. I didn't like the fact that the author hid the name of whatever disaster befell his literary landscape. (We've had disasters and talk about them using their names!) I didn't like the fact that he proposed, in all seriousness,…

The word "neat" probably doesn't describe that experience — or its various residues — very well.

Look Who's Blue, Too

I'm not saying that the guy doesn't have a problem with self-aggrandizement, but I'm on his side when he says that big-time seventies rock was the friggin' worst.

I thought that fell under the list of things people secretly knew but couldn't say. Like, "John Bonham was great behind the kit, but 'Moby-Dick' is still way too long."

I bet the Pistols put on a great — or at least fun — live show, but they didn't sound too tight on record. The production, which is overtly glammy, is part of the problem, maybe. You could make the case for Lydon being a great punk vocalist, though.

I know that John Lydon hung around London in a "Dark Side" t-shirt with "I hate Pink Floyd" written on it, but Dark Side's a collaborative, flee-flowing jam record compared to the stuff that came after it. "The Wall" has to be the grandest experiment in unnecessary navel-gazing that's ever been released by a record…

All the President's Giant Fucking Asshole Crypto-Fascist Motherfuckers

Darnit, Bill, "tributed" is not a verb. "Received a tribute from" would have worked much better.

Nah. James Carville (sp, possibly) really has the look of a villain. Or a praying mantis.

In Bolivia you can get a t-shirt bearing a picture of a llama on a motorcycle that reads "Llamaha".

Great Haven't Had a Job in the Past Three Years, Internet!

A gramática, pra a vitoria!

La gramática, para la victoria!

Llamame "Señora Forman," maleducado.

Not my joke, but down here in Argentina, I've seen a t-shirt that featured that logo and font we all know and love and words Estar Guars

Dang, Battlecar beat me to it!