I just finished Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehesi Coates. As a white dude, I am chewing on it. It's hard to put into any coherent semblance of order the thoughts I have about the issues he raises. I know most of the racism/history/inequality/institutional discrimination he details and discusses is true and has…

" In all of these, the menace is ever-present, unsparing, and eternal. It’s to be endured, not conquered."

"The Dead" is so great, thanks for reminding me of it, I'm going to read it toonight

Just read Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion. Wow, was I not expecting what that novel was about. It's hard for me to put it in the correct context from when it came out in 1970, and I don't think it aged very well. It was powerful in parts but it was so disjointed and bare that I had a hard time connecting with the…

I would pre-order this but I already have 2 tix to the Terminal 5 show in December

why the honey?

on rdio too. that is all.

I'm here only to say that everything about Wet Hot American Summer is garbage. The movie was terrible, I turned it off after 20 minutes. The series is god awful, watched the first episode and never again. I am absolutely ripe for this show, born in the early 1970s so I remember the camp movies it's meant to ape, but I…

The Little Chef-Man WHO Cooks

thanks Person Man, this was exactly the kind of reply I was hoping I'd get. I will keep reading, and the idea that Heller was using the inanity of all the details and the horseshoe pit and everything that is so ridiculous to show the ridiculous aspects of it all, had occurred to me. I really appreciate it.

I am about 80 pages into Catch-22 and stuck as all hell. it's the chapter on Major Major Major and I can't find it in me to get through it. What am I doing wrong? I know people on here talk about how much they love it, so I'm kinda baffled that it has lost my interest.

so if you like it, follow it up at some point with Invisible Cities (assuming you haven't read it) same trip, weird as hell, but there's a point you reach about 2/3 of the way through where a bit of magic comes out of the story. It's not something many writers can do, but Calvino definitely can.

wait! is this the internet?

the stumbling block I had w season 2 was just the fuck-all bleakness of the opening episode where you learn about some terrible terrible things that have happened and it doesn't look like anyone on the show has an ounce of goodness left in them. I get it, anti-heroes and all that. But man, this was like anti-heroes to…

this stream was a bit more red than I like this morning, then I remembered this and felt ok

I've got a stream for you, AV CLub

I'm sorry, HuffPo is not a source I'm willing to accept. I was in the Valley in LA when Moon Unit Zappa was doing unusual things with a spoon. I know my teenage expressions circa 1985 :)

two things

you know, I had never considered that. and people are always telling me how considerate I am.

I don't know, man, Eddie always asks me what I'm reading when we hang out.