Giuseppe Zangara

If we all cared more about this folder, pbone's stupid "Makin' Playlists" thread wouldn't keep taking up front page space.

Don't ever quote him again.

It isn't uncommon for more anglicized Mexicans to take a dislike to other Mexicans. A lot of self-hatred in that culture; I'm sure routinely being shat upon by other Hispanic peoples (Cubans, Puerto Ricans, etc.), in addition to whites, plays a part. This, of course, is neither defense nor justification for Mario, for every breath he draws is a foul stain on the entire human race.

Michael Anthony was the worst thing about Van Halen, regardless of any non-Gary Cherone line-up.

Reading Absurdistan, which is plenty entertaining. I keep seeing the narrator as an overweight, Russian-accented Ali G, which is somewhat distracting; given the similarities between the two characters begin and end with both being white and loving American rap, images of Sascha Baron Coen were not likely the author's intent.

Really, this stopped being amusing after the third chapter. Get over it.

All fine reasons to despise him.

I used to rail on him pretty bad, though, I cannot recall what I hated about him, exactly. I assume he made a lot of shitty and stupid posts.

I saw Municipal Waste once. Was the singer wearing too short jogging shorts when you saw him?

They're both lousy.

Someone kill luke-o.

Is Corona popular in Scotland?

Was that ironic, Czech? Ironic posts regarding ironic jokes stopped being funny a couple of years ago.

I wasn't aware it could interpreted any way other than cock sucking.

Blow-Up has aged terribly.

I read The Hours about five or six years ago for a class. It didn't leave a great impression on me, though I recall thinking it was okay; I never saw the film version. American Pastoral is one of my favorite books by one of my favorite authors, so yeah, that one's real good.

Absolutely. Their subs rival any major chain's.

Oh god, the combination of "Jingle Bells" and "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" makes this one of the stupidest things ever. EDIT: Yet, the inclusion of "Auld Lang Syne" at the end was kind of touching.

The "Joy to the World" sample provides a chuckle.

I've read 10. The judges of the National Book Award, as far as novels go, tend to have better taste. EDIT: Let's break this down to specifics, re Pulitzer Prize winning works I've read. Fiction: The Road - Cormac McCarthy Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugendies The Amazing Adventures of Kavilier & Clay - Michael Chabon The Hours - Michael Cunningham American Pastoral - Philip Roth A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole The Executioner's Song - Norman Mailer To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway Non-fiction: The Armies of the Night - Norman Mailer Drama: Proof - David Auburn Fences - August Wilson Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Tennessee Williams Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller Our Town - Thornton Wilder Separating Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song and The Armies of the Night into Fiction and Non-fiction categories respectively is supremely arbitrary.

gtd's right re: Dunces. That Pulitzer had to be more for the potentially enormous talent that was lost rather than it being a great book.

It's probably "embraced" because it's actually good. Nobody would assert that "Promiscuous" is a brave journey into higher thought, but the production techniques make it a damn good dance song. And, regardless of how intellectually vapid you may feel hip-hop/dance may be, it's not really that unreasonable to hold the idea that an excellent song in one genre is better than a warm-as-piss take on another genre. Which songs on your friendly local Top 40 station aren't well-produced? We'll run miles with "excellent production," but that's par for the course with any commercial-appeal music. You're confusing good production with over-production.

That '99 re-recording of "Carpet Crawlers" is a little too slick production-wise, but Gabriel nails it whenever they hit the chorus. Oh man. EDIT: Peter Gabriel during his Genesis days: