Still making my way through Infinite Jest.  Also reading Kevin Powers's The Yellow Birds, a terrific novel on the Iraq War.

I would never have pegged Michael Keaton for "The Chris Anderson Story"

I just have to say that watching that with the sound off (I'm at work) was one of the most scarring experiences I've had on the internet.  It was like watching a David Lynch Saturday morning cartoon.

-try music superstar!

We're gonna have a TP party tonight!

Who would have thought a Carl Barks/Joan Collins mash-up would be this popular?

Erik Adams-The Otis P. Lord of the AV Club

I do think the use of second person perspective is pretty clever.  You have to read some sentences a few times, but it gives the sense of being inside Cromwell's head while still seeing all that he doesn't know.  

I read Wolf Hall and BUTB back to back and now can't wait for the third book.  Thomas Cromwell is just such a compelling character, and it's amazing that Mantel can create such tension when the reader already knows how things will largely play out.

I'm tackling it too, finally.  Huge fan of DFW's essays and felt it was time to tackle the beast.  I'm a little over 200 pages in , and basically its becoming my daily mental workout.  Somedays there's great passage or the equivalent of a runner's high and other days its just a slog.

They are actually going to rotate between Van Halen and the Pointer Sisters for 45 min.

Didn't you read the intro, they are "demystifying" things for us.

Didn't you read the intro, they are "demystifying" things for us.

Uh, this is the AV Club.  I think the Mathletes are down the hall.

They may take our lives, but they'll never take our ability to turn already mediocre movies into unwatchable exercises in faux-nostalgia.

They may take our lives, but they'll never take our ability to turn already mediocre movies into unwatchable exercises in faux-nostalgia.

What does it say that when I first read this headline I thought it was possible that Brown put up these posters himself?

What does it say that when I first read this headline I thought it was possible that Brown put up these posters himself?

I'm reading through it now, and it is fun to have the fly on the wall view of the Marvel bullpen.  It does suffer from the lack of reproductions and photos.  Either the publisher didn't want to pay for the art or Marvel didn't want to cooperate.  In any event, it's strange to read a book about art and not be able to…

I'm reading through it now, and it is fun to have the fly on the wall view of the Marvel bullpen.  It does suffer from the lack of reproductions and photos.  Either the publisher didn't want to pay for the art or Marvel didn't want to cooperate.  In any event, it's strange to read a book about art and not be able to…