Faulkner is the fucking best.  I know that's not particularly insightful analysis of one of the greatest authors in American history, but it's still true, and it's 5:45 and I'm too tired to think of anything useful to say.  But yeah, Faulkner's great.

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami and Brief Lives by Neil Gaiman.

@avclub-bc9c8c705927bf419147ab7491c54896:disqus Normally, I'd agree with you.  Of course the kids watching the show will realize that the fantastical elements of the show are fictional, but given the "science vs. religion" can of worms that was opened in this episode, if the moral of the story had been PB needed to…

"Not that I can really see AT as the type of show to cater to the people who were actually invested in a PB and Finn romantic relationship."

I wasn't sure what to think of this episode at first.  It seemed like it was building up to PB having to admit that sometimes baseless superstition (i.e. magic) is more valid than science, which as I mentioned in an above comment strikes me as a shitty message to send to kids.  In the end, I don't think they really…

Seriously, she breaks the Ice King's finger and puts Finn and Jake's lives at risk just to get some medicine for Starchy's cold.  I love the way that nobody questions the risk that they had to put themselves to to treat an extremely minor illness.

I'm going to take a "Magic's just science that we don't understand yet," Arthur C. Clarke approach, and say that it's a good thing that they had PB be right in the context of this episode.  Honestly, I was going to be really pissed with this episode if the moral of the story had been that magic was real within the…

I haven't read Micro, but I read a couple of Crichton's later works, and they weren't that great either.  Prey was pretty good, at least legitimately creepy, even if the premise was absurd.  But after that…State of Fear was an awful, boring diatribe against the idea of climate change, and Next was a boring, unfocused…

And The Decemberists' 22 minute musical adaptation of it is possibly the best thing they've ever written.

Has Christopher Tolkien ever done anything that could be classified as "his own work", or has he just spent his entire career editing and releasing posthumous works of his father?

I don't know a lot about Sekera, but from everything I'm hearing he is significantly better than McBain, and actually a pretty solid, under-appreciated player (so if he ends up being pretty good for us for the next two years at $1.75 million per year cap hit, I'm actually pretty pleased with that, given how we're…

That was probably actually the the one twist that actually kind of surprised me.  So yeah, that's a really good point.

True, these are all fair points.  They were all takes on played out conventions, but I guess they did take fairly unique angles on them.  And GERTY probably is more of a tribute than a ripoff.  I didn't hate it or anything, I just didn't think it was that good either, which is clearly not the popular opinion on the…

So is the GoT board game pretty much like Risk?

Yeah, I think that this trade will be good for Schneider.  He deserves a chance be the unquestioned starter, and the Canucks won't have to deal with the headache of not being able to choose between two starting goalies.

I didn't realize until they were showing prominent past picks by the Blackhawks on NBCSN during the draft that Bickell was drafted all the way back in 2004.  Kind of a late bloomer, but when a 41st overall has the kind of season that Bickell just had, it was a good pick.  What's the cap hit on Bickell under the new…

Looks like you guys did pretty well for yourselves with the Bolland trade.  It seems kinda odd to trade a guy who scored the Cup-winning goal, but you know, I imagine he was only a second or third line guy.  He's also only got one year left on his contract, so if they were looking to trade the guy, this summer would…

Holy living fuck.  I had no idea it was that many people.  You guys have a crazy devoted fan base (even at Game 6, it looked like there were a good thousand Chicago fans who made their way down into the lower sections to watch the Cup presentation).

Awesome, I saw a photo of the Cup Parade; looked like there were a ton of people there.

I started reading Infinite Jest earlier in the week.  I didn't do a lot of reading this weekend, and I'm only about 100 pages in, but it's good thus far.  I'm amazed and somewhat overwhelmed at the amount of detail that Wallace goes into at times, like the single 15 page end note detailing the filmography of Hal's…