<I>Bwah ha ha haaa!</I> The mad professor is still the perennial favorite.

<I>McSweeney</I>'s again&mdash;and all too believable.

Hmmm. Okay, we're not talking real hi-fi here, but a good read nonetheless.

Damn. Today it's 5:45pm and I'm just getting started. At least I'm not alone; Elizabeth is still here, worrying about page numbers and layouts so that JA can worry about other things.

My wife insisted that I post this, "the best exam answer ever." Not that it did the guy any good.

Through the courtesy of Fred's two feet&mdash;and the Kaavya Viswanathan kerfluffle. Or something.

Kurt Andersen says that it's probably too late for Kaavya Viswanathan to claim "the similarities were part of a deliberate postmodern intertextual take on 'real' genre novels." Umm hmmm.

In other words, yawns <I>are</I> contagious.