Different Class by Pulp and The River by Springsteen. So basically all the class tension I could ask for.

Listening to Keane, Pulp and Springsteen, finished Parks & Rec (had mixed feelings about the finale) and the first half of the Mahabharata. Reading some YA mysteries and Chinese mythology.

Reminds me of what Roger Ebert said about how the Hollywood that gave us The Wizard of Oz could have made a Lord of the Rings adaptation that was faithful to Tolkien's original, but that's all but impossible in today's cinematic environment.

Gilligan Anderson?

At least we'll always have Christopher Lee.

This reminds of the time Bono was allowed to write a weekly column for the New York Times (I'm not sure who thought that was a good idea).

A world where John Lennon sets people's houses on fire?

The Last Battle is one of my favorite Narnia books. It's actually quite subversive in the way it implies that fundamentalists can be villainous (the whole scene with the Dwarves in the stable), and it even allows a Tash-worshipper into heaven! Because of this book, C. S. Lewis is basically the devil in some Christian…

Can't I mean both?

Middle-Earth, Oz, the Miyazaki universe, or Richard Linklater's Texas.

Oddly enough, Jesus told a story about a man named Lazarus who's given the chance to return from the dead, but remains dead.

It was Gabe.

According to Sepinwall, the guy who came in wanting their help fixing the swing was the drunk guy Leslie tried to coax off the slide in the first episode. The implication is that he turned his life around and neither of them recognized the other.

Yeah, now that it's all over I think I can honestly say that I liked Parks & Rec better than The Office. The Office was often funnier, especially in its early years, but Parks was a stronger, warmer, better show in almost every other way.

"Aren't you worried about getting cancer?"

The flash-forwards and the way the episode showed the characters living out the rest of their lives couldn't help but remind me of LOST's final season, and it was every bit as emotional.

I think Parks & Rec might've been the only show on television where a character could get away with saying, "Hitler, you sexy bastard."

I love how it ended up being a gag in the 'Possum episode that the various members of the Parks department all interacted with the 'possum as though it was another human: Leslie trying to save it from "death row"; April turning on a show about lemurs and asking in a bored voice, "Do you know them?"

I hate metaphors. That's why my favorite book is Moby-Dick. No frou-frou symbolism. Just a good, simple tale about a man who hates an animal.

I've only cried twice in my life. Once when I was seven and got hit by a school bus. And then again when I found out Parks and Rec was ending.