I've been thinking about getting Crooked. I loved Soon I Will Be Invincible. How was it disappointing?

A whole week of that at the beginning of every school year in my freshman World History classes…
Also Homo Habilus accompanied by the International Wanking Gesture…
I'm more or less numb to it, now.

"Are you Moist?"
"I'm afraid so."

Also Lord Vetenari's ascension to Patrician. Another of my favorite fictional characters of all time.

Guards! Guards! was my entry point and I never looked back. ;-)

I'm thoroughly enjoying Philip Blom's Fracture.

You have to use the brains, too.

This week's Fuck It, You're Going To Eat It episode was brought to you by Soylent Green: It's Made Of People! (tm)

Someone already bought the rights to that.

Mean Old Mr. Mike didn't like anyone.

NO! I'M GONZO, GOD DAMN IT!
[SNORTS RAIL OF COKE]
AND IT ONLY OCASSIONALLY INVOLVES FUCKING CHICKENS!

Goon. It's an old family name.

"Playing the ponies" didn't really mean going to the racetrack, either, did it?
I'm going to have to spring for that Friends of Dorothy Dicktionary,
I guess. ;-)

Did you notice that Hat Man Crothers didn't even deign to address police corruption and the Code Of Silence? That's very telling.
Look, I was a Soldier during the Gulf War of 1991 and I was in combat. I was a mercenary for the country I was born in. I've killed and maimed people and destroyed things. It was also a lot…

"Mushi, Mushi!" We're not going for Mickey Rooney in Breakfast At Tiffany's, here!

I was trying to show some refined delicacy and taste in my comment.

It's an irrelevant disputation. His audiences and profits will be fine.

And all of the bent and crooked ones snaffling through evidence lockers for drugs to use or sell or guns to "drop" to CYA after they've incompetently killed or maimed someone, plus an "Omerta" code that puts the Mob to shame. If you want to criminal big, join the biggest gang: the government.

Except when it's murder.

That hat is an absolutely shitty outside-of-the-box idea, you maestro of real-und-weltpolitik, you. Burn that thing with your head inside of it!