I'm still trying to figure out how Worrissey did it.

Etui, Brute.

In related news, Tasha thinks we're adorable:

@HotelDeltaRomeo: Actually, I think you make a pretty good point. It might not hold up as well for adults, but as a kid's movie, it still works better than most other live-action children's films. The real question is whether it still plays to kids today. My guess is that it would probably play just fine, but is there…

Relevance/influence
I was a huge Bowie fan growing up, but even ten years ago, it seemed that he had been largely forgotten by the mainstream culture. Nowadays, though, it feels like he's being name-checked by everyone from Arcade Fire to Lady Gaga to Sasha Grey, even though he hasn't put out an album in years. Any…

Don't buy wigs that come off at the wrong time!
Bernie's wigs don't come off—even on a waterbed!

Gold Digger
I love the fact that he performed the censored, Matthew Morrison on "Glee" version of his own song.

"Auster, also a filmmaker who wrote and directed Smoke and Blue In The Face"
Somewhere Wayne Wang is quietly weeping.

Of William Shatner, I can only say this: of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most…human.

You'll always fail like Common People.

Fortunately for all of us, Quark is now publishing under the name Robert Greene.

I borrowed the Dale Cooper audiobook from my library—on cassette tape!—at the height of my Twin Peaks obsession in high school. It's actually pretty good—Kyle McLachlan even won a Grammy for it.

@Todd: Obama's probably relieved that none of those stories survived. (God knows I would be.)

It isn't Wong's best work by a long shot, but it's definitely good for the eye candy.

Not to lump him in with Hitler or anything, but here's a rather different example, from David Remnick's The Bridge:

William B. Davis
I'm always amused by the fact that he was hired for a wordless cameo in the pilot, didn't even speak until halfway through the first season, and then ended up being one of the three or four most important characters in the entire series. It's a lucky thing that Davis turned out to be such a good,…

@La Pipe: I also miss the hipster clerks at Strand Books in New York. I just moved to Chicago last year, so I'm still looking for a new place to be silently judged.

Speaking of other horror authors: I've only read one novel by Dean Koontz, and that was years ago, but back in the '70s, when he was still a little-known paperback writer, he wrote a nonfiction book called "Writing Popular Fiction" that I've just about read to pieces. (I found it at a church booksale when I was about…

@Licky: Thanks for mentioning Liza's album with the PSB. I still remember buying it at Amoeba Records in Berkeley and feeling silently judged by the record store clerk, but it's a great disc.

Rue Morgue
Two points about "The Murders in the Rue Morgue":