The “Talks with Jon Bon Jovi” skit was great. Some of “Weekend Update” was great. The next peabrain that says “SNL hasn’t been good in years” is going to be beaten with a flashlight.
November 2007
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Sun 11 Nov 2007
Sun 11 Nov 2007
By now you’ve certainly read or heard that Norman Mailer died this morning at the age of 84. Kidney failure is to blame, but so is, oh I don’t know, being 84.
Inexplicably, my first Mailer read was Tough Guys Don’t Dance at the equally inexplicable age of 18. Either it went over my head, or it’s not a very good book.
The Executioner’s Song is a very good book. Sure, In Cold Blood may have created the true crime novel, but this book perfected it (after Joseph Wambaugh’s respectable attempts). Read it…once. Read it twice…if there are no other availabe books in jail or rehab.
The only other Mailer books I can truthfully lay mental claim to are Why Are We In Vietman? and a collection of short stories.
…only so many hours in the day.
Tue 6 Nov 2007