How weird is this? I checked bookfinder.com for Venus on the Half Shell this morning. There are plenty of copies available, and they're not all overpriced.
Burroughs' Tarzan books, though okay for their own time, come across as pretty racist nowadays. Very escapist.

Weren't those Karen Carpenter's last words?

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This video is like watching the emergence of a new Bill O'Reilly.

Michener's books
The first one I read was Hawaii, which is a big read. Good, though. Michener was okay.

Rosinante is also Don Quixote's horse, I think. A nice allusion, if that's what they meant.

Excellent interpretation. Not funny, but accurate.

I thought it was a giant toad.

It hasn't dated well? Gosh, we've all made that kind of mistake. As long as no one has photos, don't worry.

Better if Stallone sent McCain.

Kelly Ripa was on Ed for a while.
Then maybe he was on her.
Either way, not a pretty picture.

Norman Mailer is a competent writer, occasionally brilliant, often a drudge, but also a giant prick.

She Move Like Rambo?

Not effective with dead whales, though.

If he shows up with shellfish and the month doesn't have an R in it, it could be both.

Anybody remember the Wild West Cowboys of somethingorother Mesa? Anthropomorphized cattle, dressed up like cowboys and doing a version of Gunsmoke. They even had cattle drives with regular cattle where the cannibalism thing was glossed over with talk of "happy pastures." And even the bulls were cowboys. There's no…

career revival
This must be due to the popularity of the "Arthur Smith Sings Leonard Cohen" show on BBC Radio.

Get Fuzzy

The robot was the master and the human thing was the pet. There's that. (In the original story, anyway.)