I'll check it out.

Yikes!

I wouldn't say MP is the weakest of the three, I just think he was shooting for something different.

Many of those stories probably appeared on "Tales of the Unexpected," a British answer to "The Twilight Zone." Dahl introduced the episodes for its first couple seasons.

Is that any good? Well, I guess I know it's good, but my question is more, if all I know of "It" was that silly miniseries with John Ritter (which means I also know the basic plot), would the novel still yield rewards?

'True 'dat', as the kids say. I read "Gravity's Rainbow" 10 years ago, and I couldn't really tell you a damn thing I remember from it.

I just re-started my habit of going into used bookstores and getting obscure paperbacks from decades past, impulsively, and reading them.

While spending the last few days helping a loved one recover from surgery, I needed a break so I went out to a few different places I like to go. One was my favorite used bookstore, because I so totally lacked anything to read, or at least anything that triggered the desire to read it.

He goes there because it's the one of the only media outlets that treats him with an auspice of credibility. It's like, he's on the phone ranting and there's a graphic of his name and all three hosts are just nodding like they're listening to the Sermon on the Mount or some shit…

Didn't that dude write a lot of porn?

I seriously think I just broke the CD from playing it too much in my car.

I've never heard one way or the other if it's a decent music venue. I've only seen hockey games there.

True story: My brother and his very pregnant wife went to the Red Rocks show. Her water broke (or whatever) some 20 mins. before Soundgarden took the stage. So, they both missed the seeing them, obviously.

In that one little, ten-second joke, an entire, thriving genre of stand-up comedy was cut off at the knees.

Just last night I watched "Lawless." Despite my deep hatred for SL, I thought he was fairly well-cast, then I watched the 'making of' extra, and had a bunch of cast interviews. It went on pretty predictably (i.e., the actors complimenting each other, praising the filmmakers, etc.), and SL didn't seem too bad, but then…

Esquire is known for shit like that, i.e., constantly pontificating on what men should and shouldn't do. These pieces are usually sandwiched in between fashion layouts showing what sort of multi-hundred-dollar pocketbooks "men" should purchase.

I guess Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton weren't in that many movies together. For some reason I always thought of them having been in more than three.

"I suggest you get a 'pen'!"

Since the door has been opened:

"My Anorexic Roommate" was one of the better coming-of-age memoirs I've read.