The sequels to Wool (Shift and Dust) are noticeably worse, but still worth reading.

I hear their ginger ale is just Coke and Sprite mixed together. How can I prove it?

I just got back from liberal granola Maine, from a Christmas with my NPR-loving in-laws.

Scatological re-naming of our 8th President? Stay out of my territory!

Not Dr. Seuss, Richard Scarry. It looked like Lowly Worm's apple car.

"You see if this were real I would hate this episode"

He deserves it for being named such a terrible misspelling of Jonathan.

In this episode, he tried to kill himself by jumping out the airlock. My wife and I both assumed it was a misdirect, that he was going to try the escape pod because he had nothing left to lose. That would have made a lot more sense than suicide.

The next few books were all right, though they get a lot more porny. But whatever you do, stop before book 5, "The Shelters of Stone". It's the worst book I've ever read. It's hundreds of pages of relationship drama, songs, and characters describing their adventures from previous books.

My office IT department has blocked Disqus. I can read articles, but not comments. Fuck that shit!

Pete has to dump her, so he can go on to have sex with a different beautiful woman next week. The woman will be much younger than him, but he'll still make jokes about how disgustingly old she is.

I think he meant the system of solar panels.

After the season premiere, I expected that this season would be about Phil trying to find Carol. The show would split time between the two characters as they look for each other, maybe some other survivors show up, Phil's astronaut brother finds a way back to Earth and joins in, the other Tuscon characters are gone,…

I reread Carpe Jugulum recently, and I liked it more than I expected. The plot had some problems, but I liked Nanny being forced to act as Granny, and the Mightily Oats scenes. (Particularly when he burns his holy book.)

I think my DVR cut off at the end of the 2nd episode. Mark walked into the scene, then the episode ended before he said anything. What did I miss?

I've made it before, and wasn't at all impressed. I've never had a good experience with OJ in cocktails. I don't like the taste of fresh-squeezed OJ in general, and non-fresh doesn't work either. It tasted like OJ that had gone bad. Stick to another borough, like Brooklyn.

Gurgle gurgle!

I refuse to remember Tyler Labine's name. I just call him "Fake Jack Black".

I really hate to stop reading a book, though. I've definitely read worse books until the end, so I feel like I have to keep going.

Rice is nice, but it's just a grain.