Oh good!

before i even read the article i just want to say
I love it that Krakauer uses the word "contumacious" several times in this book: a perfectly useful word that I had never encountered before I read INTO THE WILD and haven't come across since.

"no country" blurbs
This is easy:

old west
"…it's easier to be forgiving of such lapses the further away from the present day they occur. Think, for instance, of the great heroes of the Old West."

You're wrong, Pig.

i know this sounds stupid, but…
The other day I was thinking about posting a joke quiz on Facebook called "Name That Wanker" in which - among identifications of Orlando Bloom and Ben Affleck - there would be a question about how Heath Ledger seemed like he was a wanker at first but it turned out he wasn't a wanker at…

who wrote the bible?
Has anyone read "Who Wrote The Bible?" by Richard E. Friedman? This is my favorite pop-scholarly book on the subject, whose last edition came out in 1997. Would I get anything new out of "How To Read The Bible"?

finally
A primer covering someone I'm interested in but whose work I'm not familiar with!!!!

come on, people!
Where are all the "hipster douchebag" complaints?

The CCR version is great to play on juke boxes of redneck bars: 10 minutes of music for a quarter, and all those inbred brains blown all over the particle-board walls!

books suck
After a lifetime of compulsive reading, literary pretension, and literary aspiration, I have decided that reading books is nothing but a bourgeois affectation.

A Dylan song?
The only Dylan song I can think of off-the-cuff that is an actual kiss-off to a town is "Oxford Town", where they'll kill you "all because of the color of [your] skin."

When you have so many left over like that, why not list them as "Honorable Mentions," just the song title and artist without comments.

The Fouke Monster sings?
You didn't mention my favorite part of "Legend of Boggy Creek," the completely inappropriate musical interludes featuring cheesy folks songs sung from the monster's point of view:

I saw that same Neil, Sonic, & Social Distortion tour in Normal, IL, but unfortunately it was less than religious: the sound SUCKED, I locked my keys in the car in a snowstorm, and then I had to find my registration to show the cop who opened the car up for me while trying to hide all the beer cans (full and empty).

more grammar nazi stuff
"Cory begins losing control to his alternate personality, but instead of overacting wildly while terrorizing locals (ala Lon Chaney Jr.) as he finds himself working to free a convicted killer whom Donovan wants exonerated for convoluted reasons."

for the umpteenth (and probably not the last) time….
"New Adventures in Hi-Fi" is great.

who?
Great.

who?

who?