I resent the airport fiction label. As far pulp/genre stuff goes, Thomas Harris is cream of the crop. He's on the level of a Stephen King or a George R.R. Martin for me.

Which is a shame because I remember listening to Dookie when it first came out. I mean, it was nothing super special if you were into punk. But even watered down punk was better than the shit that dominated the radio pre-Nirvana/alt mainstreaming. It was quintessentially 90s. What didn't suck in the 80s? A couple of…

Nope. I don't. I loved West Wing, but that was my upper limit of Sorkin preachiness. If they could somehow get Brad Whitford or Richard Schiff I would watch the Newsroom again, but nope.