My Summer Reading List (SF/Fantasy Edition)
—The Blade Itself, Joe Abercrombie (just finished it the night before last, very cool stuff)
—Someplace to be Flying, Charles DeLint
—Coraline, Neil Gaiman
—The Ghost Brigades, John Scalzi

I was just watching The Thing yesterday afternoon (great hangover viewing), and I kept thinking how well the effects stand up. Genuiinely freaky stuff.

RIP
Tim Russert was a consumate professional, and always had an obvious passion for his craft and trade. for good or ill (probably the latter), we're seeing the end of long-form television journalism (and punditry, even), and his death is another brick in that wall.

Do you work at the DMV?

It's a good shot, but you have to go easy on them. Hangover city, you spend most of the next day picking those pesky little baby bones out of your teeth, and nothing will ever clean up Sharpie vomit.

I love …
… that he called Hamlet "boring Shakespeare". Overtaught, over-produced, and overwrought. I'm with him all the way.

It is if you do all your commenting at work.

Well said. Futurama has irrevocably changed my perceptions of Richard Milhouse Nixon. Now, anytime anyone anywhere so much as mentions his name, all I can hear is "Arrooooo!!"

I'm afraid you'll have to settle for Crown Royal, kittens, and Krylon, my prosimian friend.

That album cover looks rather familiar.
Remember, kids: Jagermeister, babies, and Sharpies don't mix!

I like Platoon. It's not exactly subtle, and everything about it screams OLIVER STONE HAS SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT VIETNAM, but it's got Willem Dafoe and Tom Berenger. And Bunny. Can't forget about Bunny.

Sounds like a properly fun Douchocaust to me. I'd watch it.

Hair + Ebola = Umoja

I wish I didn't live in the sticks
I would like to see the film in question immediately. I guess that's what I get for a 15-minute commute.

Look, Ma! I'm in the future!
June 9! Woo hoo!

The Wiker Mannix?

Paxil's for kids. Effexor's where it's at.

Apparently, it's genetic.

Hey, man, as juvenalia goes, that's pretty good. Beats anything Longfellow did in high school, especially the notorious "Things I Found in my Nose Yesterday Forenoon" and the execrable "Fourteen Things What I Want to put Up her Skirt."

To Immaculate Misconception: