Man, the mind reels at what an interesting film career River Phoenix would have had if he lived. Somehow I doubt he would have ended up doing godawful reality shows like some of his peers.

Man, I would love to garden, but my thumb is as black as they come. I did have some minor success growing herbs on my kitchen windowsill, but my cat insisted on trying to eat them.

I took a class in bookbinding the other night. My first try was a bit shabby, but it's still holding together!

It's hard. Really fucking hard. Submit queries. Become intimately familiar with websites that you like and for whom you want to write. Make sure they accept submissions (a lot of them don't). And try not to get too discouraged.

Anything by David Rakoff. Seriously, if you love any kind of creative non-fiction or humorous essays, read him. Such a huge loss for book lovers when he passed away.

Artsy Craftsy Thread!

Anyone going bread products free for Passover? I'm not Jewish but Master Sporks is, so I usually go along for the ride with him.

I can only drink like half of one before I start regretting it.

I know this is a dead horse, but mentioning the return of the Shamrock Shake three days after St. Patrick's Day is some awesome, up to the minute journalism, let me tell you.

Funny how the people who are the quickest to describe themselves as sweet and lovable are really kind of hideous. I guess it's a form of narcissistic personality disorder, where they fail to recognize that they even have negative aspects to their character, let alone that they act out on it.

Wait, so I'm going to have to look up who Rory Bushfield is? Gee whiz.

It's pretty high up there for me too.

Silverchair probably would be remembered a little more fondly if not for that godawful song they did about eating disorders that every messed up chick on the internet adopted as some sort of personal anthem.

Oh, definitely agree on "Change," haven't heard that song in ages.

Oh, they weren't that bad. "Letting the Cables Sleep" is a great song, and "Mouth" has that perfect alt-90s stripper song sound to it.

Was going to say the same thing, that's a great song.

I just can't get past the "Norman hangs out with cute teenage girls and goes to a rave" thing in the new version.

Well, that's about the most depressing thing I've read here in quite a while.

First, Peter sees how subservient Mahmoud’s wife behaves, and that convinces him to convert to Islam.
Much like when Peter decided that he should convert to Judaism because they're good with money. When you're that blatantly recycling your own shit, it's time to call it a day.

The sequence from Six Feet Under is one of the finest bits of television in the past decade. The look of panic that comes over David's face as the background music takes a more foreboding tone still gives me chills.