Pitchfork-hating is dumb. It's a decent music site, and has introduced me to a lot of good music, and you don't have to agree with it all the time.

I LOVE this show.
My favorite thing on TV, no question. The characters all make me wish they were real and I knew them, particularly Amy Poehler's; April's expressions never fail to crack me up; and the tone is just pitch-perfectly balanced between comedy and pathos. Here's hoping it stays around long enough to…

I've just spent some time reading online about Johnny Rebel, and it leaves me feeling as if I've gone down the rabbit hole. Here's hoping he doesn't get a Nashville or Bust entry.

Hey, FJ, that's what I did too. But I cast my barely informed vote for CLOUD ATLAS.

No, sir. No, you are not.

"And NONE of them were appreciating it ironically. Very disturbing."

I'm friendly acquaintances with the polygamous family of Alex Joseph, of Big Water, Arizona, and Joseph's truly wonderful wives told me that David Allen Coe stayed with them for an extended period of time, sometime after the time of their big stand-off with the FBI in the 1970s. Apparently, Coe was interested in…

I guess you haven't gotten to the part where they wake up as bugs yet. And then the white whale wrecks their ship. (Hang in there, cat! It's almost Friday!)

We could not hold onto her
very long.

True. I suggested 2666, but I guess people can't make a little time to read 1,000 pages of geniusness.

If you can't finish it by Monday, that'd be weird.

I read T.C. Boyle's A FRIEND OF THE EARTH, and I'm really in no hurry to read any others of his. CLOUD ATLAS, ftw. What's wrong with LOWBOY? It sounds interesting to me.

My Top 3 Choices
1. CLOUD ATLAS
2. COMING THROUGH SLAUGHTER
3. LOWBOY

Look, it's time you take charge of your life and just ORDER one! Be proactive! Sharpen the saw! Remember the P/PC principle! Books don't just order themselves!

I VOTE FOR SEVEN BOOKS THAT AREN'T ON THE POLL.

PANIC ROOM was basically HOME ALONE, but with Jodie Foster instead of Macaulay Culkin. And with a metal room. HOME ALONE, but more defense than offense.

This might be all right (the Fincher one, anyway)
but isn't a large part of the appeal of this story that it's something amazing and impossible…going under the sea in a boat…that really is pretty commonplace now? I remember reading and watching this as a kid and thinking, "So it's just about a submarine?"

Here's a photo of a former gas station turned tent city in Haiti that reminded me a lot of Riddley's world…

The covers look so awful, but this isn't the first time I've heard good things about them from seemingly intelligent people.

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one antsy about this.