This is what I do: I have an Excel spreadsheet with all of the books I have out, with page count, due dates, and so forth, and then it calculates out how many pages I have to read every day to get everything done on time. So, while the stack looks colossal, I just keep to a steady pace of ~500 pages a day, and I can…

I just finished the first volume of Evans' Hitler trilogy a few days ago. I loved it, although the narrative format was a little odd; he would cover the same period in several chapters, but not really make it explicit, so it was a little easy to get lost, for me.

Here are some of my current June books:
Beginners (the original version of Carver's What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, which Carver's editor cut down to half its size without his consent, basically creating the stripped-down prose people associate with Carver)
For Marx (Warren Montag's fantastic Althusser and…

Actually, I do buy the swearing, but I don't buy the lack of exclamation points.

They Simulated Laurence Fishburne's Genitalia - And You Won't Believe What Happens Next!

Is that a list of level names or the track listing for your grunge album?

It looks like just SMB and modern 3D.

There is a Dinosaur Comics comic for every conversation.

The worst thing about pun threads is that there's always someone who posts a comment like this about how bored they are of them, and I get ready to post an agreeing response, and then I see, oh, never mind, this is just another pun, goddammit

I've been having a tremendous amount of fun this summer, while I briefly had time, reading parallel biographies - say, grabbing three in-depth biographies of the same person, and reading through all of them matching chapters. I should try that, going back through Caro and… maybe Robert Dallek's?

I'm probably exaggerating it in my memory - I haven't read the first four volumes since early high school, so the thousands of pages and the half-dozen years since I read them are probably covering some nuances. And let me be clear - I love Caro's books, I think they're phenomenal.

Great, thanks - I remember hearing something about this, but didn't follow up (and am terrible about knowing who to read for non-academic reviews of books).

I believe Anthony Weiner tried the same move after his incident.

Every president may have been, to some degree, an asshole, but Caro's LBJ is basically Mason Verger levels of evil.

It's tremendously readable, although it obviously gets exhausting after a few hundred pages.

It's in there. I mean, you can just assume that there is nothing that would make LBJ look like an asshole that Caro doesn't cover at some point.

So, I'm aware sort of generally that Caro's LBJ biography isn't totally fair to the man, but can someone with more expertise explain to what degree it's inaccurate?

Listening to hours of Scott Aukerman and Adam Scott drool over Billy Joel for an hour made me finally listen to more of his music… Nope, still awful.

I think there is a Dinosaur Comics somewhere about the very real problem of thinking of a clever password and never being able to tell anyone.

I think they mostly enjoyed it. The head of the group who chose it was a conservative Christian, and he loved it, which I just found endlessly hilarious. It's like when conservative Christians also believe in ghosts: I want to shake them and say, "Hey, you guys already have crazy beliefs for this, you don't need to…