"What's the matter, Trevor? …Scared of something?"

I think mostly the letter-writers come up with their own acronyms. There was a time a few years ago, when Dan got so fed up with how ridiculously long and tortured they were becoming, that he used part of his column to tell folks to knock it off with the clever-clever.

You and Madonna, honey.

Or, to steal a bit from Denis Leary (which is only fair):

I know because I saw it… I can't simply ignore it, darling.

I'm looking forward to the upscale British reboot,
Strewth, Good Sirs! I Remain As Yet Cognisant of the
Unspeakable Deeds Committed Lo Those Many Summers Past.

Drats. A bad-ass Mad Max exam dam's sad. A bastard.

Jason Segel as DFW is certainly the end of something or other, one would sort of have to think…(1)








(1) OF COCK

I haven't heard this band, 'cause these guys are pretty new.

Of course, it's a lot easier to accept Jesus Christ as your personal savior when he looks like Willem Dafoe.

That was awesome, AZrepo. I just about had a seizure reading it.

Crest of a Knave is indeed very Dire Straits-sounding, in part because Ian's voice was completely shot at the time ("The Waking Edge" still makes me wince). But it's not a bad album.

"No one can blame you for walking away."

Any song — ANY song you can name — becomes hilarious if you imagine what The B-52s' version would sound like.

Do you go gaga for any gaggle of gewgaws and gimcrackery?

I no longer love the A.V. Club.
I no longer love the color of its sweaters.
I no longer love the way it holds its pens and pencils.
I no longer love it.

I really want to jump in here and defend Doughty, but… fuck it, I just can't.

David Bowie - Changes (Hunky Dory)
David Bowie - Five Years (Ziggy Stardust)
David Bowie - Beauty and the Beast (Heroes)
David Bowie - Loving the Alien (Tonight)
David Bowie - The Next Day (")

No public intellectuals anymore? Pshaw. Bill Bryson. Douglas Hofstadter. Jaron Lanier. Naomi Klein…

Yes.