Have you read any of Tove Jansson's other books? The Summer Book is particularly great.

Fox in Socks is unbearable. And a couple of them never end. But the good stuff is very good.

Arnold Lobel is solid gold across the board but for my money his very best book is Owl at Home. It's written in a similar style to Frog and Toad but is very… solitary and existential. It's a really strange, unsettling book, but it's great.

THE ULTIMATE PERP.

Man. This is great. I'm writing all these down to check them out. I honestly didn't know there were a bunch of them.

Cheryl Hines is my celebrity crush. Something about that facial structure and those eyes.

I have not but based on your description above it sounds right up my alley. Sometimes I think I could read nothing but dead-end existential detective stories and be happy.

New York Trilogy is the crown jewel of existential detective fiction. I love it.

"I also know there’s already someone who’s already skipped right to the comments to… shame me for lumping Our Lady Peace in with Creed."

Will I get to meet whoever this is if I'm on the jury?

I don't think the women I like would be considered particularly heavy, but I am not at all a fan of the skeletal/zero percent bodyfat look. Just preference.

That's fair about the response. I held off watching b/c the reviews were so bad so I might have had more disappointment than I did.

I guess they re-split. THE WORLD IS BROKEN AGAIN.

Straight man here who agrees.

Also, he used the actual Iron Fist like, what, 3 times? One of those in the last episode? LAME.

Yeah. I really thought/hoped he was going to be a do-gooder in over his head. Every other Netflix Marvel character is damaged and angry, and in more interesting ways. I hope they lean into some of the weirder mythos, pick up a new showrunner, and keep the cast (and maybe find a way to bring Meachem Sr. back?). I liked…

Yeah, I thought the IF cast was game but the script—really the arc itself more than the characters—was just…bad. It felt like it wasn't moving at all. Though it still managed to wring a couple good moments out of (what I thought was) a good cast.

Iron Fist was more like Average Fist. I enjoyed it and kind of liked that it was lighter than the other shows. It was the worst by a fair shot but come one, dozens worse shows air every TV season without anyone saying, "Oh, this looks like it's the mediocre cop show that will finally doom CBS!" Marvel is the big dog…

But Danny and Rhea fixed things. THE WORLD STILL WORKS.

I understand your perspective but must strenuously disagree.