Shelf Life
It's an odd book because I read it probably at just the right time (around 17 or 18), loved it and it obviously had a deep effect on me - the next summer I set out on a multi-thousand mile cross-country road trip of my own. But I never picked it up again in the ten years since then, and I have no desire to.

All My Little Words, Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side, The Book of Love.

Also, as far as 'capturing the pure elation of love and its near-complete positivity' as i and 1 wondered: look no further than If There's Such a Thing As Love.

Luckiest Guy is my karaoke song. Or it would be if any karaoke machine in the world contained it, but fortunately none do, saving me the embarrassment of ever having to sing karaoke.

I love college football, but I can't work up more than the faintest interest in NFL. Likewise, I'm a college basketball fanatic - I watch just about every game that airs - but once players enter the pros, they're dead to me.

I love Jim's implication that you must be a weirdo/pretentious if you find having a pair of plastic glasses draped across your ears and nose less discomforting than STICKING A LENS DIRECTLY ONTO THE CORNEA OF YOUR EYEBALL.

I'm not much interested in the Superbowl but my gf is a football fanatic. Sadly, she has to work Sunday while I have the day off, so I'll probably watch it and she'll have to miss it.

You don't want to know the shit that I've done on porpoises.

Recording Banter
They discuss in the DVD commentaries of both Home Movies and Dr. Katz how important it was, both for the actors and in terms of the feel of those shows, for the cast to voice their scenes together, in person. Having actors like Jon Benjamin and Brendon Small be able to play off in each other in real…

West Coast Feed Just Ended
Any other dorks like me who got shamelessly choked up along with Conan during his closing "serious moment" about NBC, opportunities and cynicism?

Also, how does it compare to the 1962 Antonioni film L'Eclisse?

For Parnell's role sure, but no way I could see anybody but Jon Benjamin voicing Archer.

Two Boots
Anyone ever have the Tony Clifton slice at Two Boots Pizza? It's pretty tasty.

Yes, now we may never get to hear scintillating chatter like Kate Hudson's take on the situation in Haiti! (Hint: she thinks it's a bad thing)

Stagnating is that very special time in a young boy's life. . .

To be fair, the balls ARE very funny.

It actually would be quite out of place.

By an "older version of the Joker," do you mean a "completely ravaged by age version of the Joker"?

I'm with you too. It's a lot of fun with some great moments, but one of the best comedies of the last ten or twenty years, as some are debating up there? Not even close.

Among the Righteous
An interesting counterpart and pretty good read is Robert Satloff's Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands. While it acknowledges the many instances of collaboration with Third Reich forces, it also chronicles some of the untold stories of Arabs and…