Is the bailout a good thing? Is it a bad thing? I don’t know. Shouldn’t someone bother to tell me? And tell it to me like you’d tell it to an eight year-old so that I get it?
Right now, what we really need is Ross Perot and his charts.

A note [...]

My picks for casting the ancillary characters of Oliver Stone’s W.:
- Michael Hogan as Senator John McCain
- Mos Def as Senator Barack Obama (Will Smith would’ve been the more obvious and thus less interesting choice.)
- Hillary Clinton: Obvious choice: Hope Davis. Interesting choice: Jeanine Garofalo.
- Larry the Cable [...]

Independently developed games are emerging as an incredibly exciting part of the industry. Games like Braid, Castle Crashers (which I love, and I wish would be patched soon so I could keep playing it), and this new game The Maw are doing things that the big studios wouldn’t and couldn’t touch. [...]

My two new favorite TV shows: Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern and Destroyed in Seconds.
Bizarre Foods — there is nothing that I will not eat. Most of the foods on this show are things that I would totally eat in a second. Whenever Andrew Zimmern eats something, you can hear the [...]

I’m almost finished with Oscar Wao. It’s one of my favorite books this year.
As I get toward the end of a book I really like, a sort of two-headed anxiety comes on: 1) I wish this could go on a little longer, and 2) What am I going to read [...]