Do you know why I love this Scott Pilgrim page? Let me tell you why. Because of the Neko Case poster in the background. That’s why.

I don’t think anyone’s going to laugh at this one, Zach.

Dinosaur Comics - July 12th, 2010

Sleigh Bells - Rill Rill

While I am still thinking about crime thriller novels,

new Tana French novel out next month oh man

also you cannot crack a bank account password in five minutes without prior knowledge

i am half asleep and even i know this is not how it works

Only true artists like us who’d suffered throughout our apprenticeships merciless bastinados, random pummelings and fists so that the irritable master who drew a line incorrectly might feel better – not to mention hours of blows from sticks and rulers so that the devil within us would perish to be reborn as the jinn of inspiration – only we could feel such extreme joy by depicting bastinados and tortures, only we could color these implements with the gaiety of coloring a child’s kite.

— Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

John Hodgman and I have the same birthday, apparently!

I am savoring this moment because it is about as close to celebrity as I’ll ever get! Exclamation mark!

A person I actually know found me on Twitter and wants to follow me.

What do I do? This is some existential shit right here.

Uh okay I may have suffered some light cranial trauma, but this is just about the best pen I’ve ever seen.

(To contrast: an overpriced, utter abortion of a pen from Montblanc.)

Boring book organization post

Coupla weeks ago I was shopping on Amazon and trying to remember if I owned Night Watch, and it turns out there are tools for this, and one is called LibraryThing, which makes you feel kind of like you’re running a library, which is great if you’re into that sort of thing (I’m not, I think); and another called Goodreads, which is great if you have bad taste (I pretend like I don’t). Anyway, let’s cut this boring story short and just say that there is Readernaut, which is also not that great, but you know what, it’s not obtuse, and it solves the lost bookmark problem, and I thought you all should know. Lost bookmarks are very important to me.