That was the line that made me scroll back to the top of the review to note the author to add to my "Ignore" pile.

When Gary told me he had found Jesus, I thought, Yahoo! We're rich! But it turned out to be something different.

Cavemen!

I still don't know what The Master meant, and I don't care to. I look forward to having the same reaction to Upstream Color.

So the podcast for which he's entirely responsible is good, but not because of him? The guests just magically show up in his garage and say interesting things they don't say elsewhere for free of their own volition? Or due to some intrinsic magic of the WTF brand? I'm curious to whom I should give the credit I've…

Community under Dan Harmon was a friend with a drug problem who was incredibly funny and unpredictable and interesting on drugs, but also self-destructive and a little dangerous.

Been reading through all of John Swartzwelder's books that the Simpsons guys all pimp on the DVD commentaries. Finished The Time Machine Did It, The Exploding Detective, and How I Conquered Your Planet in the past week or two. Reading Earth vs Everybody now, planning on churning through the rest. I reliably laugh…

I don't know if I'd go that far… I always felt like he was more ambivalent, that he liked a lot of things viscerally but then grew uncomfortable with his liking of them upon reflection. Off the top of my head, he also liked David Lynch, the first Terminator, and Tom Clancy novels, along with other "airplane" fiction.…

You would.

The Simpsons, Seasons 3-8
The Wire, Seasons 3 and 4
Breaking Bad, Seasons 2 and 3

Thanks, Morgendorffer! (Couldn't reply directly to you for whatever reason) Just added those to my endless Amazon queue but they sound right up my alley. Appreciate the recommendation!

The reception to his essay collection makes me suspect your fear may be somewhat justified (not that they were trashed, necessarily, but feedback seems much more reserved compared to his short stories). Still going to give them a shot though.
Agree on "short fiction is awesome." My great accomplishment that I left off…

Best of luck to all the IJers out there. Hope you're enjoying it as much as I have.

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