My favorite interview was the one that Laura Miller of Salon did. In it, DFW takes aim at postmodern writers whose books are long on intertextual references and short on story (someone who dislikes DFW would see irony in that, but I don't). As it is, I was so impressed at the parallel he drew between writers who blame…

The moment in "Infinite Jest" that made me guffaw out loud on an airplane in the middle of the night was Hal telling his therapist what his first thought was upon entering the kitchen where his father had just committed suicide. I can't decide whether the scene is funnier or more grotesque in light of DFW's suicide.…

He didn't so much pass information as get the enemy stuck upside down until they get the DREADED SHRINKS! It's a perfect a perfect a perfect a perfect crime…

Yeah, let's get that uppity woman back in the kitchen where she belongs.

You're wrong, DM. There haven't been any high profile cases yet, but that's because the archives cave to all creators who are techy about their content. F'rinstance, the largest archive out there (fanfiction.net) doesn't have a single bit of Ann Rice fic. This is because Ann Rice has threatened to sue anybody who…

Naw, that's what all the wand imagery is about. Don't get me started with scoring hoops in Quidditch or the Golden Snitch…

Miller, Steve Vander Ark's website, the Harry Potter Lexicon, is available online for free. JKR has no problem with making the material available and easily searchable- she freely admits that she used the Lexicon herself when she was writing the later books and has even plugged the Lexicon on her website. The problem…

Wait, Dumbledore's gay?

Lacking "the will or the heart…" to write
Oh come on, JKR. Don't be a whiner like Stephanie Meyer. Write the damn thing and show that you're the class act your fans think you are. 10 points to make a swipe at sparkly vampires…

Exactly. While the Lexicon website has loads of original content- essays, commentary, maps, speculation, etc.- , SVA couldn't use it because it was written largely by volunteers whom he didn't wish to pay with his cut. Thus, his book wasn't sufficiently "transformative" to give it value apart from JKR's content, which…

Uberfans have already done that, and she's allowed it. The folks at Mugglenet published "What Will Happen in Book 7" and did a freakin' book tour. The difference is that nobody would read Mugglenet's book instead of Deathly Hallows. However, multiple Harry Potter encyclopaedias would definitely compete with one…

Ahh, perspective. Some might say that Steve Vanderark is an entitled prick who already makes his living attending Harry Potter conferences and acting like the second coming, despite the fact that all the original content on the Lexicon was written largely by unpaid volunteers, none of whom would have seen a dime from…

Backwards Man, his atoms and their components flip to an entirely new conformation. If this were on the molecular level, they'd be optical isomers.

He's blue because his jaunt in the "intrinsic field" chamber caused all of his atoms to flip coordinates, three dimensionally speaking, which induced a criticality accident. The reultant chain reaction makes all of his being radioactive, and the newly generated fissile material releases neutron radiation, which…

So this year at Comic-Con…
there was a wonderful panel on the physics of Watchmen, AKA "Why So Blue, Dr. Manhattan?" byJim Kakalios, a physics professor at the University of Minnesota, who was actually hired as a science consultant on the "Watchmen" film. He answered such questions as "what ARE quantum powers," "why…

Seconded. Link to blog or rumors site bitte?

Mr. Clifton appeared onstage…
…when R.E.M. played the Hollywood Bowl with Wilco in 2003. He dumped water on Michael Stipe. Who hasn't wanted to do that?

They must have watched "The Little Mermaid" at an impressionable age.

Dr. Laura and Dr. Ruth?

…the best thing she's ever done, hands down. No wrinkly-forehead acting and no crappy accent!