Happy Birthday, Anton Chekhov!

Anton Chekhov, the Russian writer and physician, was born today in the year 1860.

Picks

TV:
Sons of Anarchy
Breaking Bad

Movies:
Up
9
Fanboys
Killshot

Books:
Preacher
Juliet, Naked

Quote:
"No, Paul."
-John Lennon

Last post of 2009?

There goes 2009.
Break its spine!
Break its spine!

Here comes 2010.
Bring it in!
Bring it in!

The old year's almost done.
The new year's nearly begun.

Happy New Year to everyone!

For the Family Circus fan out there

Halloween Night

Goblins and ghosts
Halloween toasts
Children dressed up for scares

Spirits that float
No head over coat
Foolhardy boys taking dares

Tricks and/or treats
Dastardly feats
House to house with candy in tow

Don't stay out late
Don't try to tempt fate
Or the Gashlycrumb Tinies may show

Halloween night
If it's done right
Will come off without a care

Count the kids right
At the end of the night
To ensure that they are all there

If you come up short
Then make a report
For all the good it won't do

Call out the hounds
But they'll never be found
For the monsters all want treats, too

I've had enough!

The past tense of the verb "lead" is "led" not "lead".

Let's never speak of this again.

Band Names

The Ubiquitous Headband
Not a Jackleg To Stand On
Ben Gibbard's Holy War
The Flaming Elevators
Hotly Flying Ferns of Death

Feel free to use these, just thank me in the liner notes to your albums and at every show you play.

Picks

Movies:
The Orphanage
Wonder Boys

Books:
Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere

Quote:
"Lay on Macduff
and damned be him that first cries
Hold! Enough!"
- Willie S.

Picks

Books:
Ben Sisario - Doolittle (this was an interesting read, although lacking a KIm Deal interview, therefore incomplete)

Movies:
The Prestige

TV:
Defying Gravity
Vampire Diaries (so far it's good, would be better without the diary stuff)

Picks

Books:
Michael T. Fournier - Double Nickels On the Dime (I'm a big Minutemen fan and still learned some things by reading this book)
Charlaine Harris - Dead and Gone

Movies:
Rachel Getting Married
The Hangover
Wall-E (Rhino is fully awesome)
Sunshine Cleaning (while I thought it was a good movie, it was billed as a comedy which it was most definitely not)