Not yet, but it’s on my list. So far I’ve read The Elementals, Blackwater (audio), Gilded Needles, Katie, Cold Moon Over Babylon, and Candles Burning.

This seems to be in Valancourt’s wheelhouse, as they brought Michael McDowell’s* books back from the dead, and I’ve been tearing through them since last year, when Kindle recommended The Elementals based on something I’d just finished reading. I just finished Burning Candles, which was finished by Tabitha King when…

I understand why Alaska had Blockbusters well into the 21st century (rural areas with slow internet connections), but why is the last one hanging on in Bend, Oregon? Just hipster nostalgia, or...?

It seems unlikely that Palin actually sat through all of Who Is America? to see a “heavily edited” clip of herself she could complain about on Fox News

Ashley wasn't one of the killers. That was Amma and her two roller girls. 

It was Natalie. It was part of their conversation at the party, when Ashley was bitching about not being quoted and Camille told her that was because you fed me a line of bullshit (I’m paraphrasing) about how angelic Ann and Natalie were.

If the makeup is “convincing”to you, you must have been amused and amazed by the sprightly old man dancing in commercials for 6 Flags. This is on par with Guy Pearce’s old man makeup in Prometheus.

Aww, Robert got cut? I thought it was gonna be Jo. (Embarrassing admission: I can’t stand to watch anyone get cut, I stop watching after they award the 2nd patch and just find out the following week who didn’t make it.)

Oceana Grill hasn’t “evolved”. Friends of a friend visited New Orleans last year and insisted on eating there; it was terrible and two of them became violently ill later that same day. I told my friend she’s lucky no one wound up in the hospital, locals should know better than to consume anything on Bourbon Street…

I was in my early 20s when the Lewinsky thing happened—did that ever get a -gate appellation? But I hated it while it was happening and ignored it as much as possible, to the point where when I think of Linda Tripp now, I don’t picture the actual Tripp but rather John Goodman impersonating her on SNL. So the podcast…

lol kay

Roger Stone had too many kir royales that night. It was either prank calls or watching his wife get plowed by the pool boy for the millionth time.

It was definitely more creepy, I think because she both moved and seemed to see Camille and Amma. Before she’s always just been kind of there, like a painting or photo.

are the supplements at Whole Foods snake oil?

Nah, my uncle is still a hippie. He taught GED classes in prisons until he went back to school to get his masters’s degree at age 60. Now he provides low cost family therapy and volunteers at a food pantry in the evenings.

It’s Marian, she’s been lurking in the background since the first episode. When Camille runs out of her room to go the bar on her first night back home, Marian is sitting on a bench in the hallway. She’s been in every episode at least once. It’s kind of fun to look for her, like playing one of those games in a…

I get it. I have an uncle who is a stereotypical old hippie who will talk your ear off about being at King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. I like to get his goat by offering to share my crazy JFK assassination theory, which is “Oswald acted alone”. He also went to college in Austin and has lived there on and off for most…

Herbalife pays protesters, or rather counter-protesters. Whenever a group protests at a shareholders meeting or one of their mass-brainwashing rallies, Herbalife will grab some people off the street and give them about $50 a head and signs protesting that Herbalife is NUH UH an exploitative pyramid scheme shilling…

I think she just wears the same kinds of clothes every day. I know a couple of people like that, they aren’t interested in clothing and having both blue and black jeans is as sartorially wild as they get. And Camille’s main objective is to cover up her scars. Clothing is armor to her, it’s not self-expression.

Wow, he rhymed "'em" with "'em". He truly is a lyrical genius.