Ah, I apologize then for implying that you were using illicit substances whilst watching Wishbone.  Although I don't think most people on A.V. Club really give a shit about other users smoking weed.

Yep, there were Wishbone books, and I enjoyed them a lot more than the show actually, which I liked but didn't love as a little kid (I was more of an Arthur fan).  Some of them were about some of the same classics as the show IIRC, in the same format (i.e. Wishbone imagines himself as the protagonist of a classic…

So what was it like watching Wishbone drunk and stoned?  I was in my mid-single digits when I would watch that show, and thus didn't tend to be under the influence of any mind-altering substances while watching it (you know, because I was five).  I remember seeing an old episode when I was like 14 or 15, and thinking…

"The Giving Tree" is great.

Children's Book:  I'd say "Harry Potter", because I've loved those since a few months before PoA came out, but that's kind of uninteresting, so can I say that, while they're certainly not as timeless of classics as most of the books being mentioned here, and I haven't really revisited them as an adult, the "Wishbone"…

I'd forgotten about the "Redwall" books.  There were some pretty great ones in the early going of the series.

"Iron Man 2" was "dismal"?  I'm not sure if I'd have been that harsh on it.  It wasn't nearly as pretty-great as the first one, but it was a generally enjoyable, pretty fun movie.

Marc's contract is up after next year.  A lot of people are expecting him to join the Canes in free agency at that point.  Oh, and we have the youngest Staal brother Jared in our minor system.  We brought him up for two games at the end of the season (he played on the second line with Jordan), and he looked like he…

Well, Calvin and Hobbes is several orders of magnitude better than "The Hunger Games" trilogy, so I can't fault you there, but "Mockingjay" was, in my opinion (and probably most people who've read the book's opinion), the best book of the trilogy by far.  So I'd give it a chance.  Plus, it's a pretty quick, light read.

I don't have anything constructive to add to your comment, but I just wanted to say that, as a Canes fan, I find your username to be one of the most awesome ones on this site.

As an ex-Catholic who grew up in kinda-the-South, I look back on O'Connor's short stories that I read in high school fondly.  They were some of the most nuanced and least heavy-handed works by an overtly religious writer that I've ever read, which, given the moral absolutism of Catholicism, is pretty goddamn…

With Stephen Fry or Jim Dale?

Are first editions of the new-all-time-bestseller-era Potter books really worth that much?  I mean, I'm sure a first addition copy of "Philosopher's Stone" is worth a fuckton for a book that's under 20 years old, but aren't there millions of first edition GoFs floating around out there?

That's because they cut out the large bits of Harry being an annoying whiny teenager, and the Dumbledore vs. Voldemort battle (and to a lesser extent, the other action in the Ministry) managed to transcend spectacle and be one of the most legitimately cool/badass scenes in the series.  Also, Gary Oldman's awesome, and…

Yeah, as far as the Potter novels go, I'd probably put GoF in the middle in terms of quality (better than the first two and OotP, but not on par with PoA, HBP or DH).

@avclub-e95a45d0b1f5afdf0ab9cde82b4b1d06:disqus Douglas Adams wrote footnotes for "Good Omens"?  That is amazing.

I'm also about halfway through "American Gods," (and I'm very much enjoying it thus far) and I've been meaning to read something by Murakami for a while now, so I think I might resolve to do that this month.  Any suggestions on where to start with him?

I've been pretty busy this past month, so I didn't get a ton of reading done.  I did manage to read "The Sound and the Fury," though.  I probably didn't give it the attention that it deserved, but it was incredibly impressive to read, and pretty brilliant, although probably the least accessible thing I've read by…

As long as we're doing "The Room"-themed A.V. Club-staff-departure speculation:

Andy's farewell to Jerry on last week's "Parks and Rec" upon learning that it's Jerry's last day before he retires.  "OK, see you tomorrow Jeremy!"