Almost certainly. It's probably second behind Blade Runner for the book most non-Dick-obsessives (I won't rephrase that) have read. And it's really, really good as well. How about tying it in to a book vs. film column on the last day?

At least the half-hour I spent scouring Japanese-language websites and the other backwaters of the internet wasn't wasted.

Mike, you cruel bastard :)

You cruel but hilarious bastard.

Making me think! Grrr!

In one of the mostly-text Dilbert books, he put forward some rather crazy ideas, if I recall.

Because celebrity blogging (as in the Nikki Finke model) is boring and pointless. If they show the entire endeavour to be as shit as it actually is, then what is there for the show to do? It's an excuse to have tons of celeb cameos, is all.

It's not much of a film for lovers of stuff that happens at a pace above the glacial, but by god did I enjoy this film. Well, enjoy? Very much admire and appreciate? Whatever, Bela Tarr rocks my socks. Get it watched you lot.

She was plenty good on SM:TV back in the day, as a lazy student who would get up to watch her, she had an excellent sense of humour and participated fully in all the stupidity.

ZEROES!!

My god, The Mist is incredibly bleak. I loved it, but heckfire and damnation!

The trailer doesn't exactly sell me on it. Don Glover = awesome, this film = eek.

Re: the characters, for about the first third of the book I had no idea who the characters were or why they acted in the way they did, and it's only by getting to the end that any sort of understanding blossomed in me.

I agree, Visible Man. I am a roughly similar distance away. Come to my house, we'll watch it together.

Mike's books are absolutely awful. I read the one which was humorous essays, and they were the sort of thing written by the wacky uncle every family has who thinks he's the funniest guy on earth. "Mind Over Matters", it was called.

Leto 2, 7 dollars is crazy money in this age. I bought the full set around the time volume 7 of the box sets got released (5 years ago? There or thereabouts) and I got it from some guy on the unofficial MST3K message board for $240. That was about 150 DVDs worth (it came with all sorts of special features).

I think Christa Miller is comfortably the worst part of the cast, and is only there thanks to the hubby being the producer. She doesn't really do anything, have any funny lines or move the plot along. She needs to take way more of a back seat next season (although I'm well aware that will never happen).

The show is about a bunch of serious alcoholics. There's barely a single scene where half the people in it don't have a beer or a glass of wine in their hand. They've made the odd reference to Jules drinking too much, but they all absolutely hammer it down.

Why does every 30 Rock review have to start with two paragraphs about Rabin and how he's in a backlash, or not in a backlash, or whatever? Can't you just review the fucking show?

Damn the producers not giving us more April / Andy! I hate fakeout relationships!