yeah, that was another plot point I found implausible.

yeah, I thought I recognized him. I hope we see more of him.

I thought she was really good in Friends With Money. Also, she's in a lot of stuff that makes a shit-ton of money (Marley & Me, Bruce Almighty, Along Came Polly). And she's super-famous. So while she may not be synonymous with great cinema I can understand why she gets cast in movies.

fuck no.

I don't think it's on DVD but you're so very determined I might just have to buy in on VHS.

Keith pointed out that there's a big chunk about time from the book that was cut out of the film (which was re-edited extensively after a disastrous Toronto screening) but still figures prominently on the movie poster. Could someone who's read the book go into more detail about this particular discarded plot…

I was a total fucking cliche. Pretty much all the folks I listed: Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, James Baldwin and some genre fare like Jim Thompson. I realized at a certain point that non-fiction was more my bag and have been a happier, more prolific and indiscriminate reader ever since.

The Godfather is the king of movies that are better than the book. In no small part because they cut a subplot about a man with a freakishly large penis.

I've actually already written up "I'll Do Anything", the musical version (a reader was kind enough to send a bootleg copy to me, a practice I very much recommend) as a MYOF Case File but it's for the book. It's something. Nolte sings! Brooks dances!

I've also got a book my Dee Dee Ramone's ex-wife on tap. It's achingly essential!

We'd written about it four times in the last year so it seemed a little redundant to include it in this Inventory. It's a great divorce album but again, we've covered that ground an awful lot as of late.

Dumbledore. Are you acquainted with my friend the Vice Admiral?

I've heard that Kevin Smith is a fan.

Nah, I'm paraphrasing. The actual dialogue isn't much more subtle or natural.

No. He and Bentley go into business together running a service for people who want to hurl malfunctioning electronic devices off a cliff, then have them explode in mid-air.

Riff Raff, thanks for reminding us of his big speech from "Ghost Rider".

In the film he says that his clients only kill themselves about 30 percent of the time and that often the writing of the suicide note of the note proves therapeutic and cathartic. Also, the film cheats a little by having Bentley climactically reveal that Ryder's brother (who she'd drifted away from) was terminally ill…

Yes! Why isn't that show on DVD?

SNL had a really funny bit with Ray Romano as a guy trying to become a Sportscenter anchor whose ab-libs and catchphrases were all amusingly inappropriate and/or offensive. He tried very hard to make "Sweet Sassy Molassy!" into a catchphrase. And failed.

B.K Yun used to smack his pupil's asses with a wooden board and cackle maniacally, if I remember correctly. He was kind of a weird dude. My martial arts period didn't last too long (though long enough for me to have a certain fondness for "Foot Fist Way") but at one point I was able to break a wooden board with my…