[17 Dec 2009 | No Comment | ]
Barrelhouse Holiday Sale

Looking for the perfect gift for the smartass writer in your life? What about your Smart Friends Who Read Books But Aren’t Assholes About It? What about the most important person in your life — you? This holiday season (which, since we’re posting this whole “Holiday Sale” business kind of late, we’ll just say extends until, oh, sometime around the Super Bowl, which really should be an American holiday, but we’ll talk about that later…) give the gift of Barrelhousey Goodness. It’s cheap cheap cheap. So cheap we should all be kind of embarrassed about it, really.

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[7 Feb 2010 | No Comment | ]

Each week we’ll investigate one of the many unifying LOST theories posted around the Interwebs and see how it pans out.

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[3 Feb 2010 | One Comment | ]

This video makes me oddly proud of my adopted city. And of the university where I teach. I was hoping I’d recognize one of my students, so I could give them extra points for awesomeness.

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[3 Feb 2010 | 2 Comments | ]

This is Book Fight, not your mother’s book club. Say what you want. Ask hard questions. Be willing to admit you don’t understand. If you love it, tell us why. If you hate it, let us know. Trust your gut. Don’t pull your punches.

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[3 Feb 2010 | No Comment | ]

Bookninja, which is always worth reading, on the Amazon/Macmillan kerfuffle that will determine the course of Western civilization: “Somewhere around the duodenum, Amazon’s foot, which had apparently entered through its own mouth, met Macmillan’s foot which, as we saw yesterday, entered through Amazon’s rectum, and the two are having a kungfu battle amid the half-digested remains of America’s mid-list novelists. Heady stuff.”
As one of those mid-list novelists (I think), I feel threatened by this image but consider it appropriate.

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[2 Feb 2010 | No Comment | ]

Hey, remember when we used to do those Music Monday posts? Man, those were the good old days. Each week, a new tune you could listen to, download, make snarky comments about. What more could you want?