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it's just his general indie pet label, i think

God, this guy I know made me read the sex scene in the fourth one. It's mind-numbingly stupid. They have sex for like three weeks or something

I had to read I Am the Cheese in middle school. It freaked me out

I'm a junior in high school. My AP English class had to read Huck Finn this past summer, and I read To Kill a Mockingbird in 7th grade.

People seem to regard that song as some sort of a revelation. I'm wondering where these people were when "Such Great Heights" came out.

That's struck me, too — tight is the perfect word. The planetary missions I've played so far never get tedious; they're both surprisingly deep and brief enough not to get annoying.

If you just play through the main storyline in ME1, it's not bad at all. Easily a long weekend kind of game. I think my play-through was like 12 hours, and I did a handful of side quests. Totally worth it, too; I got my copy for twenty bucks new.

The way Mass Effect does choices and such is fantastic. Some of the decisions (especially near the end) in the first one had me pulling my hair out, and the way they've played out in the sequel has been fascinating.

"Like the unique African Baobab tree, which nourishes its community with its leaves and fruit, McDonald's has branched out to the African-American community nourishing it with valuable programs and opportunities."

Friday and Saturday evenings the Redboxes in the grocery store nearest my house average lines like 7-8 people long. They're pretty popular, at least in my neck of the woods.

I think White Noise is in development hell.

The same thing happened to me. I read the last 20 or so pages frantically, hoping that it wasn't going to end in a bloodbath. The ending as it is struck me as much better, considering it was dark and twisted but realistically and not unnecessarily so.

I read it in a day, though I took it too fast and wound up missing some stuff. It could probably be read thoroughly in a day or two.

I would buy a hat that says "I'm Michael Bay" on it

Shut up!
This is my last picture!

Knock knock.
Who's there?
Knock…knock.
Who's there?
Knockknock!
Who's there?
Philip Glass.

I like what I've read of Chabon, but I've only read The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and The Yiddish Policemen's Union (and Summerland a really long time ago, but I barely remember it). Kavalier and Clay would make a good selection if not for the length; I remember it being great and I've been meaning to…

I think the "conservatives who like Colbert but think he's on their side" are not nearly as commonplace as many people believe. I know quite a few conservatives who like Colbert knowing full well the fact that the persona differs from the person. If conservatives are in touch with anything at all, even from just…

I thought it was about the drum corps myself