David S. Trumpkins. I will collect my cowriter credit in Trump Meats.

They share bookoo similarities, yes indeed.

Don't shame me for my lifestyle. Feels good, man.

…croke?

Ta-Nehisi Coates is back on The Atlantic with a referendum on the importance of Obama's race—it's pretty great and touches on what you're saying here:

True—but in her absence, I had to step up.

*…lying…*

…I actually need those votive candles.

By a papal lap.

I am a 28 years old powershitter.

It was even better! He warned against "coprophilia" that could lead to coprophagia—so, in essence, the Pope went "Man, you guys sure do like poop. You like it so much, why don't you eat it?"

You're missing precisely nothing. I stopped at a Hardee's earlier this year, because I was hungry and on the road, and got a chicken biscuit that had a layer of grease on the biscuit the thickness of a dime. It tasted and looked like snail genocide.

I watched the whole season, and I agree that it's that shaky HBO mix of sophomoric and portentous, but it's anchored by some great work by Ed Harris, Jeffrey Wright, and Thandie Newton, with some pretty fun Anthony Hopkins as well. I ended up not liking it much, judging by the accelerating rate of alcohol consumption…

Shit, they're already blaming it on China. It'll be the consumption axis of India & China that doomed us, not America, will be their argument. When Goa floods, sending two million refugees into the heart of the subcontinent, when polar sea ice decreases and affects weather patterns in Europe, when food crises in the…

Becky Warren's War Surplus—a fabulous country record about a marriage falling apart after the husband returns from Iraq. The sort of thing country does best, and Warren is killer.

God, I love that record. I've probably listened to "Baby Birch" a thousand times and it never gets old.

Been getting big into Birdsong Brewing lately—their coffee porter is superb, if you're in the Carolinas. Evil Twin continues great beers apace, but I've been really enamored of the collaboration between Against the Grain and some English breweries—they're hideously expensive, but the graphic design is just as good as…

After the election, I burned through the Hap & Leonard books—propulsive candy-reading. Absolutely terrible, but with a pretty fun outsized Texan flavor to 'em.

Yeah, this is the only graph I've seen that makes South Carolina look ahead of the curve.

Grim and poignant. Seems about right for 2016's brand of catharsis.