Do you think she ever saw Humble Pie back in the day?

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Jewball is great read, but it's about basketball, not baseball You should fix that in the lead-in!

Note: Poochie died on the way back to his home planet.

I remember both—I went to High School in the St. Louis are and Gravity Kills was HUGE. Not a bad band by the standards of the era, but looking back I think they didn't have much to say.

the "I Alone" video
Is worth it for one of the funniest 2 minutes in Beavis & Butthead history:

@Sherbert—Beyond the Sunrise is so bad it erased itself from my memory.

I think both Arab Strap and Fold Your Hand are hit & miss. With Arab Strap I'll go for about the first half, plus the title track. After that I just don't feel it. Fold Your hands has mostly good songs, but the bad ones (Waiting for the Moon to Rise, Chalet Lines, Don't Leave the Light On) are real stinkers.

I've been just getting into Nerdist lately—I think they'd be better served with a decent studio. I don't know where they tape (Hardwick's house?) but they talk over each other, which almost never happens on either Earwolf show, which manage to balance a professional atmosphere with some really funny shit. Probably…

They're not actually refunding the money spent on web albums—they're giving Itunes credits in the amount you'd spent. I hate iTunes (for PC) and so I'm kind of annoyed. BUT I agree with Domino88 that it Lala was rad for comedy albums.

That's interesting but (to me) not convincing. I like the notion, Scar, because it redeems the movie through complexity, but to me it seems a little too diabolical/coincidental. The whole process of convincing Leo that he's insane seems quite a bit more trouble for little gain than just shooting him in the first…

As for the totem pole, it's hard to say. I hope Leonard called him out on that one in the interview 'cause now you've got me curious.

I'm with you, Mike—on a first read I enjoyed this book quite a bit but considered it kind of a lark. Now that we've picked it apart I find a lot more depth than I expected. It's also a book I never would have picked up off the shelf, so I'm really happy it was selected. This was the first Wrapped Up in Books that…

Do you think Joe was just putting up a front when he claimed to the rest of the gang that Tom "only thinks he knows me," or does he have a point?

Speaking of Joe, what did you all think of his justification—the story about being part of the crowd while his friends beat their classmate with a hose (or whatever—something to that effect)? Did that seem legit?

I think it's hard not to hate Karen Woo—I don't recall her ever doing anything nice. Mostly I recall that she was the one who started the whole staring at Janine phenomenon, which to me was the most nasty (almost unrealistically so) adventure the bunch got into. But you're right, she wields a lot of influence and…

Genevieve of the hyphenated last name I can't remember
She wasn't the most interesting of the bunch by any means, but she's who I "identified with" in the sense that she tends towards good behavior, but is never quite able to escape the gravitational pull of the We collective, and I guess I see myself the same way in…

I agree Swibble—I felt like the suspense in that scene was pretty artificial.

Mike, I like the notion that the plot serves the PoV and not the other way round. Everything in the is filtered through one or more person's perception and then dumped into the collective sphere for Us to chew on. Most of the plotlines can be framed as inquiries into what We are supposed to think of…

@Farmer John: Interesting take—I'd have to go back to the text, which I don't have in front of me here at "work"—but I don't know if I'd go quite so far as to blame the dotcom bubble on the lack of productivity in ad offices. Ferris' We may be frivolous and short-sighted, but I felt like the collapse of the agency…