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The King James version of American Pie

It's 2016, Garfield!

Yeah, his zines were pretty good, but I could have swore he posted this stuff online years ago - maybe not the actual final book, but tons of tour diaries.

Nocan really outdid himself with Jimmy the Burnout and I'm looking forward to his new album.

For some reason, everyone I hear talk about Rocky pronounces his name "Aesop Rocky" and it totally grates on my nerves.

It's like Kenny Powers, but significantly more pathetic.

Search Party starring Thomas Middleditch

I thought this was about that terrible Thomas Middleditch movie and wondered what we'd done to anger TBS.

Have you read the White Boy Shuffle (his first novel)? It's fantastic too. I haven't yet read the novels in between, but The White Boy Shuffle and The Sellout seem to be the ones with the most acknowledgement so they're presumably his best.

You can buy the whole show on DVD (with no special features and probably too many episodes jammed onto each disc) for just over $20 on amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Larr…

Glow in the Dark, Thank You and You're Welcome, or Through the Wire: Lyrics & Illuminations?

I'm not entirely sure. I guess I mostly see who is touring with the artists I like, who is signing to the labels I know, and just names I keep seeing crop up.

no chance of what?

the trailer looked funny

Evan Rachel Wood? Super-gross? Does not compute.

Roxane Gay has a wonderful, though incredibly dark novel called An Untamed State and a few essay collections namely Bad Feminist. Paul Beatty recently released a great satirical novel The Sellout and has a few others along with a couple books of poetry.

She just put one out last month. This has been a really fun way to read a bunch of different authors without much commitment: http://www.one-story.com/in…

I'm reading White Noise right now and it's really funny.

No, I had not. Jesus. And I know there are idiots out there who truly believe it's par for the course - you put yourself out there and people are going to "troll" you - as if there is no difference between the way a woman, especially an outspoken woman, and a man are "trolled." I had a white male co-worker say it was