Gimme Mike Holmes all day and all night.

My downstairs neighbor keeps practicing his guitar playing at night, and the soundproofing between our places is lousy. Not even playing guitar, but like one off-tune note at a time. What’s a reasonable time to ask him to stop at night - we live in yuppie central in Chicago.

Holy God.

Guess what phrase doesn’t appear in that whole article? “Due process.”

“Did you know that the founding principal of liberalism is due process?”

I never said you were responsible for diversity of opinion. If you haven’t read the other reviews on gawker media websites, allow me to summarize: “550 pages of Franzen shitting into your eyeballs.” The novel has not been reviewed with nearly this same kind of universal derision in other venues. If you think that’s…

I guess. I’m open to the possibility that I’m just not sinking into the narrative (I’m about halfway through) because what he’s writing doesn’t jive with my admittedly pre-conceived notions of what would be believable about Pip’s behaviour. Having never been a young woman with self-esteem and impulse-control issues…

“Because he has made you unavoidably aware that you are reading the work of someone who has never been a young woman with self-esteem and impulse-control issues...”

My favourite trolls are the ones that come out of the woodwork 2 years later. Enjoy the rest of 1L year.