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How is it now, Holzie?

A reply to Merlin.
I loves me some Superchunk.

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
I just finished this one in audiobook format, and it’s really quite good. Granted, there are probably two types of people who will read this book: Those who already believe what the author, Christopher Hitchens, is saying, and those who need to try to disprove him. It’s not […]

Just because you’re not smooth enough to get a lady to buy you a drink on ladies’ night doesn’t mean you have to ruin it for the rest of us.
(Those of you who know me well can stop laughing now. Seriously.)

Holy crap… This makes me sick to my stomach:
‘Stealth racism’ stalks deep South
It all began at Jena High School last summer when a black student, Kenneth Purvis, asked the school’s principal whether he was permitted to sit under the shade of the school courtyard tree, a place traditionally reserved for white students only. He […]

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel is a huge-ass book (just over 1000 pages), which my regular readers will know means I’ve been reading it for friggin’ ages now.
Oh, I’m not done yet, either! But I’m getting close and it’s getting rather interesting, so I thought I’d tell you about it. (This is me […]

Depending on which phone and which plan the iPhone costs between $2000 and $3000 $6000 over two years.
I just switched providers and the three phones I got for the Wife, the Mother-in-Law, and myself and the service for those phones should run me on the low side of the iPhone range in the same time […]

OK, so who the heck knows what’s going on in John from Cincinnati — forget it. Instead, I say you spend your time soaking in the comedic joy that is Flight of the Conchords, featuring that really annoying guy from the Outback Steakhouse commercials. (He’s actually funny outside of the Outback context.)
The NYTimes says it […]