Just finished it yesterday, and I thought the season was fantastic. The use of voting to make things actively worse (especially once the baby was introduced) was brilliant.

Congrats! 1500 posts! Also, a book!

Seriously, congrats on putting this together and getting it published. I'm a huge fan of congressional poetry, and am glad to see more of it being created and put out into the world.

Just spent the last five minutes reading through the knife section, and yeah, this is fantastic and something that belongs in my library. Also incredibly well-written.

I'm sure he was paid good money to "lose" to Paul.

That said, looking at his background, it's amazing that he wasn't arrested before, or that nothing was said about all the warrants out for him in Mexico when this match was announced.

I subscribe to some territories, so I'll get notifications for posts in them, and am a lot more likely to see those than ones on the front page. And if someone's throwing clearly off-topic posts in a territory I subscribe to, I'm likely to take actions including ignoring the posts, ignoring the user, downzapping the posts, and muting the user (depending on how often and how bad it gets).

T-Pain also has a damned fine cover of this:

I still remember coming across "7 Words" on a random sampler CD (maybe an issue of CMJ?) and knowing I needed more of them.

Yup -- it was one of the Bachman books, and really good (and also very obviously influenced by Robert Sheckley and his "Seventh Victim" story and sequels).

We're also getting another of the Bachman books adapted this year -- The Long Walk.

Really glad to hear that! It's one of those books I've pushed on so many people -- just so damned good.

True, but that away/home split (3.23 vs 6.79 ERA) suggests that he's still capable of being a #2 on a rotation in any other city.