HBO will be airing (cabling?) a sitcom written by and starring Louis C.K. Now starts my long wait for a DVD release, since it isn’t quite enough to make me buy an HBO subscription again.

43 Folders has some tips on concentration while studying.

Did I loan you the DVD of They Live? I can’t find it anywhere!

A brown-skinned genius uses stereotypes to ease his passage through airports. I haven’t gotten to listen to the full story yet, but your assignment is to brainstorm other disambiguating (rightly or wrongly) cultural accessories that might help you through airports.

I have frequently wished for good writers to rewrite movies with good premises but bad execution. At last, here’s a taste:
Line from Revenge of the Sith: “I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything’s soft… and [touching her skin] smooth…”
Line as rewritten by James Lileks: “I hate sand. I was born on a planet of sand. It got in your eyes and your food and your clothes. It stank with whomprat piss. It was in your shoes when you woke in the morning and it was in your sheets when you went to bed at night. You grew up a slave, you grew up in a world of sand.”

The Phantom Edit was good, but needed to be even more invasive. Will someone please make these movies good? Maybe as a silent movie: put music over the awful dialogue and put some good dialogue up on cards?

Take a gander at a repro Levittown kitchen and maybe you’ll spot my penguin-theme ice bucket. Well, Mine doesn’t have the original nice lid.

If you’d like a taste of being an audiobook reader without having to move to New York, maybe you’d like to volunteer at the Washington Talking Book and Braille Library. Sure, you might end up reading the grocery ads, but they’ll be the best-read grocery ads ever.

Did you know that the military has professional reading lists? The Army one was the first I found, and looks quite interesting. The Air Force one looks a bit slimmer, however.

Sesto Senso has lots of super-luxury personal products, including the best selection of Demeter fragrances I’ve seen! Anyone want to smell like waffles?

An entertaining archive of detective novel covers— almost seems like the sort of thing I may already have posted about. A little extra content in case I have: I visited a little bookshop near Powell’s City of Books that had a display of 50s and 60s naughty book covers that were strangely similar to any other pulp of the time! Quite worth a visit!