My wife loves that song.  But I still love her.

Thanks, ClearChannel!

Agreed.  New country is pretty pathetic.  No more outlaw country—halk of the songs are about how people love their kids, go to church, support the troops, pay their taxes on time, etc., etc.

Dark Side of the Moon, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Bloom County

Try The People Who Eat Darkness.  Not as good as In Cold Blood, but still good nonetheless.

J-Men Forever owned.  Completely.

Reminds me of Strobus, the Greek god of light and dark and light and dark and light and dark and light and dark and light and dark and light and dark and light and dark and light and dark and light and dark and light and dark and light and dark and light and dark.

HEY WOOKIE, GET OFF MY LAWN!

MTV = Bravo for 14 year old girls

Diamond makes good points, but his writing style is brutal.  Sometimes feels like reading a term paper.

In Cold Blood is one of the best books I've ever read.  You won't be able to put it down, and you'll be surprised how much you've seen Capote's style imitated.

Stop reading Dark Tower after Book 3.  You'll be happier later.

You need to read another book about how to back get that time you lost reading Gravity's Rainbow.

Cat's Cradle really is excellent.

The part at the end—and I think you know what I'm talking about—had me in tears.  As the dad of a boy about the same age, it's part of the reason why I never watched the movie:  I just don't think I could see that on screen.

Recently read Suttree, and I'd agree with your assessment.  It's decent, but it's not nearly as captivating as his Border Triology work.  It doesn't really seem to go anywhere, and if I'm going in for Southern Gothic, I might as well go all the way and read some Faulkner.

That's exactly how I felt about it.  Like most post-modern work, the real joy is in the smug satisfaciton of getting all the inside baseball.  It's sort of like Pynchon's stuff—most people like being known for having read it far more than they liked actually reading it.

Recently read The Terror.  Good read, especially considering the tight setting and the length of the book.

It's readable in the way that Finnegans Wake is readable.

You're not missing anything on Arthur, at least the first one.  I haven't seen the second one.  And it was everywhere.