At least Oregon fans can still take pride in having the cutest costumes in all of college football.

Paul McCartniece? Paul McCartneat!

Yes—"The Botany of Desire" is excellent as well. I found it to be similarly engrossing. I also have "A Place of My Own" but have not yet read it. Looking forward to how his non-food related writing compares.

I third The Omnivore's Dilemma. Incredibly insightful and reads like fiction.

North Coast's Pranqster is quite magical.

"Rasta Imposta"? Okay!

Ah—good to know. I understand Hyden is a pretty well respected music writer in areas of the web. I think it's the perception that I go to Grantland to read about sports, not music. Of course, I do enjoy a lot of their TV and film review pieces, so maybe I'm contradicting myself. Those articles seem to gel better with…

Really appreciate seeing Steven Hyden on this list. Evaluating music through a sports-metric lens doesn't really work. See Chuck Klosterman's mess of an article about rock musician "VORP". Why does Grantland meddle in music criticism anyway? As mentioned before, the subjects are rarely worth writing about.

Yes—correct. Isn't Bonner "The Red Rocket"?

He was fantastic in Love Liza. A real heartbreaking performance along the same lines as Synecdoche, New York. Also, the Jim O'Rourke soundtrack really drives home all that depression.