I was taken aback by that as well since I've always kind of liked Stockard Channing. She really made the film version of 'Six Degrees of Separation' worthwhile.

I disagree. I watched the first few episodes of 'Arrested Development' and thought it was obvious and predictable—as if its apparent bad taste and mean spirit mission statement were a blueprint. But you know, everybody raved and all that, so I gave it another go this past weekend on IFC and again I got nothing from…

I don't know if he's got enough rope yet, but he's doing a pretty good job with that tie.

If you have any prominent buttons I know a troll who likes to push 'em.

May I be excused? My nation hurts.

I don't "have to" but I'd sure like to sleep for days on end.

I don't often agree with Lobsters, but he is not contrarian merely for the sake of getting attention—which is, I believe, the case with a Grey Man. And Just Idiot is correct, the main reason Democrats have been so deft at losing for so long is because they tend to believe they are too good to go on the underhanded…

"If she gets elected"

Point of Parliamentary Procedure—
Rabin, since you're onto k.d. lang already, I have to ask—are you going to do (or have you already done without my noticing) a write-up on Glen Campbell? And while I know you did Dolly, did I miss Patsy Cline, Tammy Wynette and Tanya Tucker?

mr apollo—I suppose it's giving her songwriting cleverness too much meta credit to suggest that maybe the omission of an expected third verse was an attempt to induce in the listener a kind of, as it were, constant craving.

You can say that again.

Double entendres be damned—camembert is just a better semi-soft, surface-ripened cheese than brie. Brie to me is slightly nuttier, while camembert is like buttah baby.

"in the comfort of his own king size bed"

It's a Chip 'n' Dip!
The Pete and Trudy collaboration is my favorite part of 'Mad Men' currently (and my Sundays have been dismal since the end of season three—at least 'Breaking Bad' is not too far off). They started out being really unlikeable—she was kind of shrill and demanding; he was immature and unfaithful—but…

Summer Glau…makes me feel fine…

They get so much done in a day…
I have to confess I didn't fully sign on to kd land until 'Ingenue'. I had the volume of Just Say Yes that had 'Black Coffee' on it (and loved it), and I thought her duet with Roy Orbison on 'Crying' was the only worthwhile thing to come out of the quasi-Hughes movie 'Hiding Out'—but…

Check out Corso's "Marriage," one of the funniest damn poems ever:

Kerouac's verse poetry is pretty hit or miss (he's really a prose stylist) but 'Blues and Haikus' I think is the place to go. I'm not the one to recommend a Bukowski book. Sylvia Plath has a collected poems that is worth getting, but she really inhabits her full Confessional mode in the 'Ariel' poems.

Frank O'Hara and the New York School were contemporaries parallel to the Beats in time, and with some similarities, but distinct enough to matter. Both shared a street level democritization of poetic subject matter and at times a kitchen sink inclusiveness, but whereas the Beats used these subjects as launching pads…

"Other than a really fine ginger ale, what do you have?"