Try Dubliners. Lit snobs tend to slight it because it's his most accessible work (like accessibility is a bad thing), but all the stories range from good to staggeringly great. Ulysses is good too once you stop trying to parse out all the virtuoso shit he's doing and plug into the real human story underneath. I don't…

Oh my God. Excuse me while I go kill myself.

Hey, that's Ms. Lazy Bones to you! But I did break down and read it. I stand by my rebuttal. The dog got to see him again before he died. On a scale of Big Red to Hachi, that rates somewhere between White Fang and Incident on Hawk's Hill.

I'm sorry you've attracted the attention of a creep, Waffilicious! I haven't seen any of the kerfuffle but if I spot any comments, I'll put my flaggin' finger to work!

The poster showed THAT?

Jesus, what's the message of that movie anyway? "We're different and thus can never really be friends, but at least we can decide not to actively try to kill each other"? What the fuck, Disney?

I really am being lazy b/c I'm not even going to read the Wikipedia link to make sure my memory is correct.

My takeaway exactly. What a lovely person!

But . . . but I played left field! Oh.

Thanks for the advice! My dog is 10 as well, so we're all getting old together. I also have five-year-old and one-year-old cats, because I keep foster-failing. There are a few foster kittens running around as well. I'm spending the day repairing cat damages — gluing back together chess pieces that were knocked to the…

Yes, it was the unfairness of it that upset me most. Like, fine, Hannibal, manipulate Will with your psychological prowess, but encephalitis is cheating! Hannibal's callous abuse of Will's trust (those clock scenes — that bastard!) is why I don't believe Hannibal cares anything for Will; he just want to play with his…

Honestly, while I do find Hannibal (the TV character) fascinating, funny, and even occasionally sympathetic, I also find him unbearably pretentious and, frankly, boring at times. I wouldn't want to go to dinner at his house, not for fear of what I'd be eating or whether I'd be eaten, but because he'd be elaborating on…

I'm really sorry about your cat! She sounds lovely. If it helps (it probably doesn't), your post made my day a little better because my two oldest cats are 11, and I've been thinking lately about what it's going to be like to lose them (I've never had old animals before) and just morbid shit about what I'm going to do…

Ah, kidnapper vans. Classic.

I think Miley Cyrus is smart as fuck. She grabs headlines without ever going irrevocable. She has some genuine talent. She appears to appreciate quality music. And she seems to be on the right side of social causes. I don't know her body of work but I think she's making all the right moves to garner fame and fortune…

Exactly. I'm not Cajun, but I'm from south Louisiana, so I was predisposed to like Gambit. I actually clicked on this article to defend him, but I have to admit that header picture is fucking hilarious.

Thanks! I'll give it a go!

Oh God. I never watched the movie because it seemed an abomination (I adore the book series), and I didn't even know Ian McShane had been cast as Merriman. McShane is great, but that's some godawful casting right there.

Ugh. Xander. I really hate Xander. I hate even more than he's never forced to realize what an asshole he is. I hate that he's proprietary over Anya even in her death (and that the last mention of her on the show is fucking Xander summing her up with, "That's my girl, always doing the stupid thing" [or something like…

Yeah, I kind of hate the gag itself, but I can't not laugh at "What is this, a center for ANTS?"