Which reminds me, if you haven't, I think everyone here needs to read Nick Hornby's "Juliet, Naked"...it's about music, but it's about fandom.

Ah, yeah, I really enjoyed that book, though it didn't quite measure up to High Fidelity for me. But I love how Hornby writes about fandom. He really gets it.

High Fidelity is better, mostly because I don't get the same sense NH was thinking of his fans, writing stuff, and going "Ha, ha, they'll really dig this."(Sometimes it was true, sometimes not.) HF felt more personal,imo. But he does really understand the modern fanboy/girl and he gives shoutouts to things I love all the time...like "The Wire" and "The Rockford Files"(Which he listed along with spliff and a leather jacket as a component to happiness, iirc.)

"Me and Mrs. Jones", yeah,

Ooooh, LOVE. I don't know why I don't own that one.

Music-relatedly, I have been earwormed with Solomon Burke's "Don't Give Up On Me" since I woke up. I love the song, but not on an endless loop. Geez.

I think I have it three different times. If I got a chance to meet Nick Hornby, or my crime-writing boyfriend George, I'd totally tell them that.

I just discovered that the Hawaiian What A Wonderful World has been hiding on my iPod. This journey through All The Songs is illuminative, and is sparing me some duplicate purchases.

Random word and font geek grumpery:

How is it possible that, with a huge body of hand-engraved writing to work from, nobody has yet created a William Blake font? Or, at least, nobody who's then gone on to post it anyplace I can find through Google. I can't possibly be the first person ever to think of such a thing. Somebody else, somewhere, sometime, must have.

::shakes Internet vigorously, hoping Blakefont will just magically tumble out::

I found this while trying to help you look [link]

Hee! That's awesome, DJ.

oh i like that DJ

Cool, DJ!

Is everybody aware that one of the femme fatale's in Will Eisner's comic The Spirit was named Sand Seraph?