Well said, Unpossible. You are a poet and a gentleman.

All right people, I'm looking for consensus here. Can we all agree that:

Gee guys, I sorta liked Freakonomics. Thought it made some interesting points about abortion and names and dealing drugs and trying to play in the NBA. No conclusions, really just perspectives to ponder. Where's all the hate from?

I'm with you, Doctor. Early Soprano's knocked all of our socks off at the time but when I go back and try to watch it in light of what has come since, I'm unable to enjoy it. The acting is cartoonish. The plots are thrown together and slightly corny. Not as good as Mad Men. Not as good as Breaking Bad. Not…

You are in rare form, Tom.

Usually I try to avoid this, but: Anyone who thinks Any Given Sunday was pretty good is wrong. Dead wrong.

@GhaleonQ: As a former member of the flock I must dispute your notion that it's possible to be a Secular Christian: Being Christian demands that you believe that Jesus Christ blah blah blah…You can't be secular and believe that. There are half-assed Christians, there are progressive Christians but there are no…

@Caged Horse: Do you want someone to acknowledge that quality Science Fiction (or more accurately genre fiction because we'd have to include "fantasy") has been often been dismissed unfairly by the literary world? Because I will happily help you out: That is obviously true.

Atwood has always been interested in commenting on our current condition by telling stories about future societies. McCarthy has always been interested in the fragility and cruelty of life in conjunction with what happens to people when they stop having rules imposed on them by society. So I guess I don't see…

I listened to him being interviewed on Talk of the Nation a couple years back. He spoke only about transcendental meditation, no matter what he was asked about. Although I can't recall all of it, he said some of the strangest things I've ever heard on NPR. I couldn't figure out if he sounded like a genius or an…

Keep fucking that chicken!

Let's just say I'm driving this buggy, and if you fix your attitude then you can ride along with me.

Tim, Spike Jonze will not fuck this up. Rest easy.

McSweeney's site is hit and miss, but anything Dan Kennedy writes over there is gold.

There is a striking resemblance…

El Quinn: I do not like you.

Tom Clancy books should be read on an airplane and never under any other circumstances. They're interesting enough to keep you turning pages and killing the hours, but stupid enough that it's not a big deal if you just scan through paragraphs without really reading. Conversely, reading Tom Clancy in a comfortable…

I hope it's the one where Jack Bauer resolves something through torture.

Someday I will come across another AVCer in my isolated corner of the world. We will laugh and weep with joy at our meeting. And we will finally know what it sounds like when doves cry.

KFTC, Stacy.