Oh, let's see:

Favorite Episode: Debate 109

Oh, Lord, all must be still, a Unicorn has appeared in the glade and he is carrying plans for a cathedral.

Actually, if Fake Bashir was working the angles on that one that whole chain of events makes a lot more sense to me.

We shall see.

I would read the Hell out of that comic.

Yeah, interpretation is a feature not a bug. You need touchstones for foundations not manacles.

Yeah, I think 01/02 is when the darkness may have really begun. Though I'd submit that there have been some clusters of years where the number of stand out episodes rendered the seasons decidedly not bad.

I'm trying to decide how well that fits with his ideas on meritocracy.

Any Neil Stephenson novel. When that get's done at all well, that's when we'll know the modern-ing will be at hand.

Never would I pray harder for peaceful rest than for the corny Dane. Zombie Dane Cook would be a scourge unimaginable.

You, sir, are in great shape for a good time.

Do the Esslemont books too, or even during, they range from fun to a great complement.

That may be a weird disconnect in our circles. The deconstructionists I know do study Heidegger, but the Heideggerians I know are not the deconstructionists I know.  And just as or more frequently cited by the deconstructionists I know are other sources - the structuralists themselves, obviously, and then the…

Well, not by accident so much as happy coincidence. Flann is great.

That would be true to the period.

If you want a straight up hierarchy of the guys you mentioned plus the Malazan writers, plus the other Jordan author:

He's well within the tradition of folks like Martin and Hobb (in both larger genre terms and in trappings) but he's working at a different scale. Of the old names he's probably closest to Wolfe and Cook with a little bit of a throw out to Gaiman (though I'd argue he actually does Gaiman's themes better than Gaiman…

It's a more than a little off to say that Heidegger is the basis of deconstruction (A) and (B) it's much farther off to say that his fascism is the basis of deconstruction (or that his ideas were all the influential among the fascists) and (C) post-structuralism certainly isn't encompassed in its entirety by…

Crypto is a fantastic read.