Knows prose

Clive James on Dwight Macdonald

Go it husband, go it bear

Eszterhas vs, Gibson, or as Melissa McEwen puts it, "It's like the Lincoln-Douglas debates, if Lincoln were a huuuuuuuge douchebag and Douglas had written Showgirls."

Thanx to Shakesville

Music in bars

Playing music to help people converse is like helping people enjoy an art museum by shining spotlights in their eyes. So why do they do it? It sells booze.

Thanx to Making Light.

The shame of living in the south

Socialized medicine, same-sex marriage, relative sanity about marijuana, and now glow-in-the-dark dinosaur quarters. Sometimes I wish annexation by Canada weren't just a paranoid Republican fantasy.

Thanx to File 770

Underdog

Comic Sans speaks (uses language). I still say it kicks Anal Arial's ass.