You know what's cool? I used to work with Fred Phelps daughter! Awesome!

Yep. Good writing, beautiful drawings. It probably didn't hurt, either, that I was a Bible-camp counsellor who de-converted, so far as my enjoyment of the narrative went…

I enjoy hating on Harold Bloom and Harry Potter.

Good question, and I prefer not to answer—except to qualify that I am not an everyday Vice reader.

You know, I actually bought a copy of Playboy a few months ago, and compared to the Internet's offerings, it was pretty damn tasteful.

Speaking of awkward Thanksgiving conversations, what about dating these guys (sort of NSFW): http://www.vice.com/read/me…

Yeah…well, fuck that unreliable narrator. He gets ya every time.

I dunno. I'm pretty hardcore about the atheist bit, and I liked it a lot.

I know! Very few people realised that Steven Soderbergh's imagination was so deeply erotic!

Ah, so that's why there's a copy of Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom on the front rack at the B&N in Tempe, AZ. It's been there my last two visits. It's weird.

…something something Trinitarian theology…

There's a nicer way to say that: I don’t happen to care for it, but I pray I’m wrong.

From Wikipedia: "Tubers are various types of modified plant structures that are enlarged to store nutrients. They are used by plants to survive the winter or dry months and provide energy and nutrients for regrowth during the next growing season and they are a means of asexual reproduction."

Sipping a glass of vintage wine, he said, "It is a failure. That is certain. But a failure to remember, to memorialise in—if not, we fear, in song, then in our speech, in our poems, in our hearts. It is music's Scott Pilgrim C- that still rumbles in the sorry heart. Farewell, Titanic! Farewell, fair Hindenburg! We…

Huh, I must've just stumbled upon his non-Vietnam-vet books. The Girl Next Door is narrated from the POV of an older man, thinking back on this horrible thing that he witnessed when he was a kid. The mixture of experience and "innocence" in that book is very unsettling.

So…any other readers of Jack Ketchum out there? I'm in the middle of reading Offspring right now; the other book of his that I read and was pretty damn impressed by was The Girl Next Door.

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Um, cowbell?

This is a more detailed version of what I was trying to say, I guess.

I don't get it. Is Ben Stiller now assumed to be naturally less funny than Eddie Murphy? Cause…when I look at their output of the last ten years, I'm not sure a good case can be made.