Liz Penn: "Let's all get out the vote tomorrow and hand George W. Bush his head on a platter. I cannot fucking wait." Me either, kiddo.

By the way, I went out tonight to go see I Heart Huckabees, which had already started by the time I got there. Have to catch it -- and ray and that Metallica documentary -- sometime later this week. The evening wasn't a total loss though. I went by the Happy Bookseller to get Roddy Doyle's A Star Called Henry, whose follow-up I've just been hired to review. Also went to Cool Beans to work out my thoughts on Updike's Villages. It's a challenge to write about a bad book by a good writer; a bad novel that has real patches of inspiration in it.