Currently about 80 pages into American Pastoral. All of Roth's books sounded boring as shit to me, but I finally started and if nothing else, the man can write the hell out of a sentence.

Whoa, that's awesome! I've recently moved to NYC and am trying to get into the history of this fine, smelly metropolis. I am holding off on the most recommended title, The Power Broker, until it is available on Kindle. Do you have any book recs on NYC history? I'm especially interested in stuff from the end of the…

I didn't find it as cohesive as Nixonland. I felt like Perlstein didn't have as cogent an argument as he did in Nixonland and Before the Storm. Still some of the better nonfiction I've read the past couple years.

I don't remember AV Club being full of so much preening sanctimony. It's not a phrase I'm a huge fan of but it's a well-known reference to Tropic Thunder.

Would it be ok to skip ahead to LA Confidential, or is it necessary to read the rest of the so-called LA Quartet first? I'm not really much of a completist, just interested in reading the best one.

God, that line "Billy's Restaurant, Your Neighborhood Toilet" damn near made me piss my pants laughing. And that one guy who got (understandably) super pissed off when Nathan told him he was being recorded in the bathroom.

Yeah. Rose is a pretty decent interviewer, although considering his competition it is a very low bar. He seems to step on his dick whenever he manages to get his guest to say something interesting.

Native New Yorker = ok to like the Yankees.

Yes! I especially loved that Golden Monkey song. Saw the dude smoking outside the Bowery Ballroom and winked. Still haven't seen Dean Ween Group.

I could not get one of my stoner friends into Ween, but I finally managed to sell him on the band with Pollo Asado. He thought it was hysterical.

Glad you guys like it.

Missed that detail, that's important!

I usually hate explanations that go "Your problem with an element of the story is THE POINT!" because it's generally too neat and used to condescendingly handwave legitimate criticism.

Not an unfair assumption, Molina is not exactly a stereotypical English surname.

Jim Belushi's not fat enough for Scalia. Next time you come heavy or not at all, Jim.

Wow. I flew Jetblue in early June and this movie was already playing. Must've been cheap? Holy shit, I could barely watch it.

Yes, of course, but Rand Paul will be different! I just know it!

Last I heard Paul was in favor of massively increasing defense spending and opposed marijuana legalization. Some libertarian, huh? Dude's a Republican with a very, very thin libertarian veneer, and people fall for it.

I saw a late show with Jefferies at the Best Buy theater in NYC. Bunch of drunks. Jefferies was drunk too. He was good at dealing with hecklers but got way too sidelined. This woman in the front row center kept passing out, and he kept telling her to wake the fuck up (fair enough, I'm sure it's distracting to have…

You must have watched a different videos. I didn't see comedians "complaining," I saw comedians shutting down idiots who were ruining the show for everyone else.