I'm sort of cheating, but I've been getting roasted at work (and I know I owe a Nicholas Cage review). Below is something I did for our work blog. It's a good book. And there's a video of me talking. ...
Read more »That AV Club gateways to geekery feature might just be the best thing on that awesome site. What a good idea, giving primers on artists and art every dude should know and instructing where exactly to ...
Read more »Zadie Smith writes an awesome The Social Network review cum analysis of the web 2.0 generation. She's got a privilaged POV seeing as how she a) was at Harvard when Zuckerberg created his ...
Read more »David Foster Wallace's collection Brief Interviews with Hideous Men uses our (guys') women-hounding to describe the modern difficulty when it comes to true human relationships. Sort of ...
Read more »I had a good time last week when a book publishing scandal was the city’s top headline. Articles made the cover of both The Globe and The Star (just to recap, Penguin’s President David ...
Read more »Look, you can like David Foster Wallace because he's really talented or because he's really authentic in trying to make moral art (and I mean that in the least suspicious way). People are ...
Read more »I've always felt that Malcolm Gladwell was the Soldier Boy of non-fiction literature - wildly successful due to the simple, accessible and formulaic nature of his work rather than superlative skills ...
Read more »I always see book design contest online, but this one at www.venusfebriculosa.com where people submit designs for Lolita is the best. Frankly, it's because it's such a sexual book, and sexual, for ...
Read more »Tanya Gold in The Guardian on the new book Why Women Have Sex: And then there is sex as man-theft. "Sometimes men who are high in mate value are in relationships or many of them simply ...
Read more »From npr.org: You don't buy a Van Morrison CD hoping to hear him do something radically new and different, and you shouldn't crack the latest Nick Hornby novel, Juliet, Naked, expecting anything ...
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"also check this out -- all the stuff obama had to deal with in his first term http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/01/30/120130fa_fact_lizza?currentPage=all "
avp"a gingrich / obama race would definitely be uglier, but there's still no way gingrich wins. "
avp"We shouldn't be funding the Catholic school system. If they're going to take their orders from the Vatican and Catholic dogma, then they don't deserve our money."
C"Michael Fassbender could have been nominated for Jane Eyre or A Desperate Measure very plausibly but that he was overlooked for Shame was one of those imbecilic outrages that we've had to become a numb to with the Academy. You really must see that film ..."
Salem
" The Conservative Government was sued in the Supreme Court for the illegal age of sexual consent increase as it was a direct violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Constitution. A book about the court case that remains ..."
Octaevius Altair