[sotto voce] is too loud. Jared or Ivanka might hear. That's why everyone was issued one of these dog whistles.

Beck will do his best. But then he'll donate his profits to Scientology.

Yes, you must. Because we have the same attention span and retention rate as Trump.

I'm not sure I want to know how more amputees benefit a flying spaghetti monster adherent. Are the limbs turned into Parmesan?

I bet you wish you could create amputees that you could paint in your spare time.

I never really listened to the words before.

…but he paints puppies! And himself in the shower!

Yes. Good government is going to be fiction for a while now.

Are you running for president in 2020? Will you have a veterinarian's report declaring you the most healthy cat in the history of world to run for president?

The immortality thing maybe? I always took that as an exploration of long-term monogamy. For me it seemed like he was settling down both in books and in life. Then Skinny Legs blew it all up.

If you like that you should get Robert Fripp's Exposure and make sure you get the bonus track version. Sacred Songs was a collaboration with Fripp who released Exposure around the same time. There were supposed to be more Hall vocals but Hall's agents weren't happy with their pop star working with the guy from King…

See I'd pick Still Life with Woodpecker (which is really heavy on the quirk) and Jasmine Perfume (lighter on the quirk outside of a hell of a quirky frame) as the ones I like. Skinny Legs and All made me stop reading him altogether. I could handle reading the normal (for him) stuff or I could handle reading about his…

Stride with caution. Mother may be armed and dangerous.

"Marywbradshaw was given a verbal warning for posing with what could be mistaken as an assault spam while wearing poor camouflage attire," police said.

Leonardo da Vinci agrees.

Has it been a while? Then it does.

I suppose that's less messy than my way.

Terry Pratchett is my favorite "light" read even if some of my top books from him (Small Gods, Night Watch, Nation) are far from "light".

I've had fun with just about everything I've read from him but I like the dense sort of thing that he usually comes up with. It also is usually slow going for the first however many pages until I fall into his rhythm and then I tear through the rest of the book. I do the same with J. G. Ballard.

That's probably why I like him so much. But @Gougagna:disqus needs a better entry point than wherever it was if he's complaining about pretension and obtuseness and yet The City and the City is the one he likes because City could be accused of both. Kraken is a light romp through genre fiction with bonus wordplay. I…