Torrents Are Totally Sweet

I’m not here to explain what they are or how they work, but here are two reasons to find out post fucking haste:

browntracker.net -- Endless tons of Ween shit. The pick of the tremendously huge litter is the four-disc set of b-sides, demos, and rarities. Their unused shit is forty-seven times better than what sits on most of the CDs you used to enjoy before you discovered Ween. Ooh! Their new album doesn’t release until fall, but an EP (of stuff that won’t be on the full-length) will be available June 8! Aren’t you excited?! And speaking of that -- ?! -- did you know that a punctuation mark exists that melds the question mark and exclamation point into one? It’s called the interrobang, and is rarely used. Also, it was devised by an American advertiser in 1962, so that’s three points against its use right there. Typophile has a lengthy, interesting discussion about its legitimacy.

myspleen.net -- Now the best way to download Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes. They have a poopload, many of which are the excellent-quality Digital Archive Project DVDs. On mainstream torrent sites you can download a torrent that contains every single MST episode EVER, each of which is an AVI of about 600 megabytes. When viewed on a television, the quality is similar to an EP videotape, which is fine with me. You need space for it, though. The damn thing weighs in at 136 gigabytes.

The Book-a-Week Project, Week 17

Thank You, Jeeves
P.G. Wodehouse
Read by Alexander Spencer

Yeah, it's an audiobook. I made a weekend trip to California (don’t go) with my girlfriend, and Wodehouse is excellent for car listening due to the simple plots and wordplay. I’ve heard other Wodehouse books in audio form that were narrated better, mostly because the narrator used a different voice for each character and nailed the nasal whine that Bertie certainly has. They may have been narrated by someone else, or maybe Spencer had just honed his craft in later novels.

Thank You, Jeeves is the first Jeeves story, but you wouldn’t know it. Wooster makes offhand reference to close to a dozen incidents that occur in other Jeeves novels, and every recurring character is already fully developed in this story. The book begins with Jeeves quitting Wooster’s employ due to Wooster’s constant, unrepentant practicing of the banjolele. There are romantic entanglements, misunderstandings, and somehow Jeeves sets everything right by the end and opens the door to dozens of the funniest books in history (not including the Holy Bible, of course). As brilliant as ever. The Jeeves series is hilarious from the very start.

Next, more George Saunders: CivilWarLand in Bad Decline.