Good points, Cardinal Kid.

Leave some of that breast for the rest of us, Frito.

Bob Dylan gave me AIDS.

"Prexy" is the new Hollywood slang for "president" that tacitly assumes that all presidents are, or the very act of being president is, sexy.

The community tearing itself apart is the subject of Needful Things, but I think only parts of that book, like The Tommyknockers, are very good. The magic trick scene is one of the best things King has written, but I was exasperated with quite a lot of that book.

Put some garlic butter under the Fieri skin, Frito. It moisturizes the tanning bed-hardened skin and the meat beneath, and complements the Axe undertones very nicely.

I tweet a twat; a twat I tweet; and in my tweeted twat I sheet.

And I the complete adventures of Jon, Kate, and their buoyant brood of eight!

Can we not have a hog over for Thanksgiving and feed it Paula Deen?

Wassup mah prexy?! Wan' totes go instay in the back yard, brah? Thill'll be like the hottest staycation ever, brofriend!

Words/phrases it could have included that would have been more annoying:

I thought the cascading perspectives had a cumulative power and that their effect was a great dammed sadness that was released by the last section. I thought it was just brilliant.

The Savage Detectives draws much of its power from the accumulation of the failures of its protagonists through the perspectives of its many narrators. As we watch their dream die, we watch a whole concept of art wither and be mocked, but in the final section we witness the trauma that led to their collapse and the…

What about the bit with the seal-covered airplane? Even the Dali-choking scene might have come from a tall tale.

Have you read him, Asshole? His sentences are like pothole-covered dead-end roads that wind up in front of trailers with scary rednecks in them.

What do you guys think of The Savage Detectives? I think it's one of the finrst novels I've ever read.

More or less. The world is charming enough to sustain the formulaic and poorly reasoned plots. The series is never boring.

I found the nephew to be very realistic; I have had experiences very similar to a few of his (not the locked in a room and not bathing ones, though I have met such people; the disillusionment with college and my intellectual idols and the self-destructive behavior resulting from it ones). The ending was a bit obvious,…

Pirates are definitely the better buggers, for good or ill.

I found the wife and son to be fantastic constructs of a middle-aged highbrow's imagination. I might need to just plunge into the book and ignore my thoughts long enough to get into what it has to reveal to me. I've resisted it tooth and nail so far because of its prose.