But where's the volkswagen?

When I was a young lad working at a major metropolitan daily, I used to use Reporter's Notebooks, 8" x 4". They are a perfect size for keeping in a pocket, but not too small to actually write on. I'm also a fan of Moleskines, Picadilly, wirebound school notebooks, file cards, 3-hole-punch paper (regular and college…

What has been working for me lately is some Mozart on Winamp, Q10 on the laptop with the WiFi turned off and coffee. Strong delicious coffee. I also ignore the phone or turn off the ringer on the cell.

I have a PSP 2001 and I like it. Sure, there's a few things I wish it had, like a keyboard and phone capabilities, but hey, it's a gaming console. I have Skype on it but I have yet to drop the cash for the headset. Anyway, the games are good and I like that I can watch movies and check the web, although the text…

"OK, Bob, you got the picture. Wanna pull me in now? Bob? Where you going, Bob? Ha ha...very funny."

I set mine up so that when I type ',asshole' it expands to read 'fuck you'. That's probably not what we're trying for here, is it?

The twist will be that everybody's already dead in an isolated village surrounded by hostile plants and Sam Jackson is causing plane crashes...and then a strangely European-looking Asian mystic and some wild pool girl will swoop in with water and baseball bats, spraying down the almost-visible aliens and shouting…

@CatStampFever: I forgot Return of the Living Dead.

Nice layout. I'm a writer and I need a cubbyhole that is way separate from wife, child, dog and whatever else disturbs my visions of Xanadu. Not the Olivia Newton-John one.

I don't see the black character on the cover of Delaney's book.

Read World War Z, watch Romero's original Night of the Living Dead and everything else is a waste of time. Except Shaun of the Dead. That rocks too.

@CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): I love this picture of Glen Beck as a kid!

What do you call a boomerang that doesn't come back?

You should hear what Fritz Lang is saying about how Bill took HIS design from Metropolis and screwed it up with a codpiece!

If I eat at my desk, does that make it a dining table?

This is a job for Quantum Duct Tape.

Is that why cops catch more bad guys in the morning?

I'm a backpacker with a weakness for carrying coffee gear, so I've got all kinds of toys like a folding french press plunger that fits a Nalgene bottle and a couple of small expresso makers.

So what happens when the Chinese borer beetles start hatching out of the planks?

Sorry, but being confined like this would drive me batshit crazy.