Finally got around to reading CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES. I dig it for the most par, though I wish New Orleans were more of a character. Heard Richard Pryor was cast to play the Jones character in an aborted film project of the book, which could have been awesome (though the way the character is written in the book makes…

Agree with you, but the 'through the eyes of others' thing could have been done SO much better. Like an entire episode featuring Leonard, Todd, Vicki, Garrett, etc, with the Greendale 7 always in the background or in long-shot. And having the scenes NOT be things we'd seen before, as in "Paradigms of Human Memory."…

and this pretty much sums up the episode. A(n admittedly funny) throwaway prop gag steals the entire show.

I'd say Harmon is more like String, to be honest. Assuming the Baltimore drug trade itself is COMMUNITY. Radically oversimplifying things,

Q: "So if you had to sleep with one of these people, who'd it be?"
A: "The super old one."
Q2: "Really?"
A2: "Mm-hm. I'm an eyebrow girl. I want to make out with him and chew his eyebrows off."

Any good place to start with Trevor, assuming this isn't your first run?

My resolution is simple. Watch more stuff in real time. I hate not being able to join in on the discussion of current TV episodes. I would like to see more movies, plays and concerts. I spent half the year in the hinterlands of Western Massachusetts and now live in Boston, so there's no excuse.

J.R. is a terrific beast of a book. It makes me both apprehensive of and eager to read THE RECOGNITIONS.

I read V1 of THE MAN WITHOUT QUALITIES a few years back and while I very much enjoyed it, I would be extremely hard-pressed to give you a plot synopsis, let alone have a conversation about it. So V2 sits there on my bookcase winking 'Let me finish the job, I'm gonna break you, son'

as compared to, say, MASON & DIXON which is wall-to-wall awesome. In my opinion, easily Pynchon's most overlooked and undervalued book.

Did Sepinwall self-publish that book? I've looked for it all over but shops don't seem to have it and have bee generally unwilling to order it (I usually get the line "Well, it's not in our database and it might take a while to come in…)

Agree with your disagreement. BLOOD MERIDIAN is an out-and-out masterpiece. THE ROAD felt more like a thought experiment, a breaking bad-esquely built world where the protagonist gets to choose among a variety of grim paths forward.

I'm trying to make a conscious effort to not buy more books, to at least stem the increasingly problematic size of the stack of books on my nightstand this year.

Right on, there's only so much time. I read about 30 books in 2012 but at the cost of movies, which I saw maybe a dozen all year and maybe 5 of those were in the theater. I'm terrible about watching movies, ugh.

Right on, there's only so much time. I read about 30 books in 2012 but at the cost of movies, which I saw maybe a dozen all year and maybe 5 of those were in the theater. I'm terrible about watching movies, ugh.

somewhere I hope there is a band that is playing literal angular guitars, guitars in the shapes of protractors, crooked guitars bent into odd shapes, or else the guitarists themselves are incapable of standing up straight and must lean forward throughout the show, their backs at a stiff 90 degrees.

somewhere I hope there is a band that is playing literal angular guitars, guitars in the shapes of protractors, crooked guitars bent into odd shapes, or else the guitarists themselves are incapable of standing up straight and must lean forward throughout the show, their backs at a stiff 90 degrees.

on top of being an excellent author, Gilman maintains a fairly active twitter presence. Unlike a lot of actual comedians, his tweets are often funny with an absurdist bent that, like his books, may or may not be for everyone, but crack me up. Well worth a follow IMO.

on top of being an excellent author, Gilman maintains a fairly active twitter presence. Unlike a lot of actual comedians, his tweets are often funny with an absurdist bent that, like his books, may or may not be for everyone, but crack me up. Well worth a follow IMO.

Put Your back N 2 it is an excellent record. Good call.