Glad to hear it. I am super-proud of it. Can't wait to spring it on the world.

Thanks.

So far I will be doing readings in Chicago, Milwaukee, Madison, New York and possibly Detroit. Big book tours are out of fashion in this recession-ravaged day but I'd love to visit as many places as if possible without bankrupting myself in the process.

I would love an Anchower book. He and Teasdale have always struck me as the Onion's deepest characters, in part because they're so rooted in real life.

That article is one of my favorite Onion pieces of all time.

We've had seventy years to get used to Nazis and everyone else speaking with British accents in movies but it's still weird to hear Nazis speaking good old American english.

I agree. The conventional wisdom on the LOX is that they're a group that never attained the commercial success they deserved but their placement here doesn't exactly back that up.

I am serious as Cancer. Shit will be going down in the next few weeks.

Done! Violent J at least.

Rustlas is the prequel, since it takes place over a hundred years before Hustlas. Confusing, yes, but that's just how these clowns get down.

Pluto Nash is coming in 15 days. Tomorrow brings Dune, then Pluto Nash as the next Case File.

Me too, but the mask thing proved a deal-breaker.

yeah, his Twitter is great and he was a holdout for a long time.

No, it's incredibly dour and pretentious. Even if it was trying to be a comedy (which it's not) it's still incredibly unfunny and insufferable. I never go into a movie wanting to hate it; I want to enjoy movies, but this was one of the worst films I've seen in recent memory and I've seen my share.

I tried to get a picture of Gates dancing (heaven knows people were shooting him like a motherfucker) but couldn't find any. If the publicist who got me into the show sends me one I'll definitely post it tomorrow.

Four Lions is a pretty terrible name for the film. It sounds more like a costume drama than a provocative, ballsy satire.

There has not. I'm not sure I'm even allowed to give out an F- but holy living fuck did I hate this film.

Amusing postscript
Li'l Austin was arrested not too long ago while pursuing Britney Spears (for professional reasons of course). I guess he hasn't grown up or abandoned his super-aggressive ways quite as much as Grenier's film would lead you to believe.

You know
that you've made a strange film when the revelation that Kate Beckinsale is Jewish is the 17th least likely element of a movie.

He's a dwarf!
I'm a dwarf! Everyone's a dwarf, dwarf!