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Savage, Yes—But Don't You Wish You'd Written It?

Funniest book report ever?

Via Blog of a Bookslut.

It Would Be Cruel of Me to Say I Know a Lot of People Who Do This

But true.

Packed My Bags

That concludes the audio portion of my tour. I'm packed, and after toodling around Shanghai a little, I peddle off to Beijing for some culture, and then home.

Thanks for joining me on the tour—it has been nice writing home to all of you in the audiosphere.

Great Philosophers

Socrates, Aristophanes, Chaucer, Rabelais, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Voltaire, Jonathan Swift . . . and Trey Parker and Matt Stone?

Well, one Libertarian sees it that way.

I seem to recall someone saying that the acid test of political humor is not whether it makes you laugh at the other point of view, but rather whether it can make you laugh at your POV. South Park does that to me with regularity.

Let's Do A Fly-By

Of Saturn!

Thanks, David.

Here's the Scheme

"You trip him and I'll steal his wallet and we can trot on down to Petland for kibble."

You Amaze Me

"Sometimes I foget how stupid you are—and then I remember you're human!"

Waxing Poetic About Mushrooms

The more I tested, the more I knew: The Onkyos didn't sound right.

The comparisons I'd made so far were primarily based on listening to acoustic guitar music. In this arena, the Onkyos at least stood a chance. After all, I'd been listening to so much of this sort of music partly because of the Onkyos. And, while they didn't always hold their own against the more natural-sounding DeVores, they did provide some truly exciting, and nearly frightening, moments of hi-fi goodness. If nothing else, the Onkyo/Takamine collaboration possesses a notably high jump factor. The…

Not Your Average Sushi

Stop, don't eat that!