Giuseppe Zangara

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:

I wanna make a thread about The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. Who's for it?

Tell the fine fellows at Rogue that they're one of my favorite breweries.

You can certainly make a lot of money serving as long as you're at the right restaurant; I made more during my time at the Cheesecake Factory than I did at any other retail/service industry job I've had.

Stevie Wonder's 70s Classics: 1. Songs in the Key of Life 2. Innervisions 3. Talking Book 4. Music of My Mind 5. Fulfillingess' First Finale

I think being anti-Loaded is stupid, but you knew that already.

Considering the source, that statement is the TSM equivalent of the grand wizard of the KKK putting out a press release stating that the organization is not racist. Hey, awesome, you can't disprove what I said. Dipshit. Your posts in that folder, along with those of people like Edwin, speak for themselves. You haven't done anything but prove me right. The burden of proof is on you. Do you know what "burden of proof" means and why its applicable here? Am I going over your head?

Considering the source, that statement is the TSM equivalent of the grand wizard of the KKK putting out a press release stating that the organization is not racist. Hey, awesome, you can't disprove what I said. Dipshit.

Except for Czech's occasional menstrual cramp—which, to his credit, he keeps in check (LOL) these days—accusations of snobbery within the music folder are unfounded.

The incompetence of the managerial staff at the Cheesecake Factory where I was employed was what made my time there the single worst job experience I ever had. I worked at a Burger King that was run by far less cretinous half-wits.

I can be very charming/engaging.

I have little to add to the Cheesecake Factory discussion other than I briefly worked as a waiter at one. It was the worst job I ever had.

That one soccer player who looks (looked?) like Zack de la Rocha was patronizing Mons Venus the one time I was there.

I thought Dead Presidents was pretty crappy.

This is like the fourth or fifth time you've used this.

Do you suppose Carrot Top is grateful that Dane Cook has taken his spot as Comic Most Loathed by Other Comedians?

All kidding aside, what you described doesn't sound at all appealing. Maggianos has an okay happy hour, as far as these places go. I can drink Guinness (which is the only better-than-okay beer you can find at most chains) for cheap and get $2 appetizers that are not inedible.

Racist.