I wanted to focus on the deep cuts and more obscure stuff rather than the hits.

It wasn't mean so much as affectionate. Yankovic liked it. He's been a huge friend/fan of the Onion and AV Club for a long time.

I've been thinking about whether my dad, who was also a single father, would enjoy the show. I don't really know. He's got a strange sense of humor but there are a lot of things in the show I'm not sure he'd know to process or understand. My father likes for everything to be very accessible and sometimes that's just…

Lots of great suggestions. I would agitate for the Richard Gere remake of BREATHLESS, the awesome carnival noir NIGHTMARE ALLEY and the 1940s THE FOUNTAINHEAD. All super-weird shit that needs to get written about.

Yeah, Tasha's brilliant. I am perpetually in awe of her and her intellect.

I'm campaigning for BLACK DYNAMITE with Scott myself. Hopefully it'll happen soon. It'd also be a super-fun movie to show an audience for Scott's awesome New Cult Canon film series over at the Biograph in Chicago.

It isn't just the Saved by the Bell cast Diamond says horrible things about
He's incredibly bitter towards pretty much every child star. He hates Fred Savage and derives some weird glee in suggesting that a young Neil Patrick Harris had an underage fling with the guy who played Max on Saved by the Bell.

One of the big ironies of the book
is it was written primarily because of Diamond's hatred of Gosselar and Gosselar actually comes really well, as much brighter and more interesting than you'd expect him to be.

Diamond is proud of things no one should be proud of. He devotes a lot of print at the end of the book to crowing about what an awesome bad guy he was on "Celebrity Fit Club." In Diamond's mind it was a triumph of acting, not behaving like a giant douche in the saddest possible context.

Backstory
This was supposed to be published by a major publisher and got a six figure advance but the manuscript was rejected by the publisher (something that happens very rarely I would imagine) and sold off to a smaller publisher. Apparently Diamond collaborated with two separate ghostwriters on it. The more you…

If you're feeling really masochistic
I live-Tweeted this book a few weeks back so you can find an ocean of incredibly sleazy and stomach-churning excerpts there if you're so inclined. I felt dirty while Tweeting and dirty when reading the book and dirty now.

I love the guy. I just worry that his characters might wear out their welcome if he trots them out too much. Dunno bout others but I'm always super-geeked when I see Kroll's name pop up on a podcast.

Arsenio would be a great WTF guest. I always like it when they go a little outside the box. Paul Mooney would be good too. Just ran into that guy in the Port Authority in Manhattan. It was weird.

Advice columnists use pseudonyms? But what about Miss Manners? Clearly that's a real woman, though not, apparently, a woman married to Mr. Manners.

That was fucking funny.

Yeah, the Wade podcast will be covered next week (spoiler: it's one of the best). There was an interesting tension between Maron being interested in her primarily, if not exclusively, because of her relationship with Carlin and her need to assert herself as an autonomous individual, not just the soulmate of a great…

I will check that shit out, Never Gonna Register. It boggles the mind to imagine that it gets even darker.

Yeah, I reviewed this when it came out on DVD a while back and was underwhelmed. I really dug it this time.

I bought it on Amazon. It's not easy to track down, which is part of its cult appeal, I would imagine.

Foley has been adopted by the pod and alt-comedy communities
which is nice but he also kind of seems to need that validation (we all do), which makes me kind of sad.