Lovett or Leave It

You happen to be reading a hardbound copy of Stephen King's thousand-page opus, The Stand, as the pilot comes on the intercom to say, if they can't get this bird off the plane in the next 10 minutes, the crew times out and the flight will be canceled.

And I'm thinking about that line, the first line of Less Than Zero people are afraid to merge on freeways in LA.

His best-selling book, Endurance, shot like a rocket ship up the bestseller chart.

I don't like Romney's policies and I do like to remind people the name of his book was No Apologies the case for American greatness which is basically a precursor to the rhetoric Trump uses.

So you must be here to talk about how in McKinn County, Tennessee, a school board unanimously voted to ban Mouse, the Pulitzer winning graphic novel about the Holocaust.

Interestingly, I just found out Mouse has shot to the top of the Amazon bestseller list thanks to the attempt to ban it.

And right now, and actually historically for the most part, the filibuster hasn't been used to block bad things from happening. It's been used to stop good things from happening in our country.

Unfortunately, those numbers are expected to be lower in a few weeks after Coronavirus published a too long medium post titled Following Joan Didion to say that it was leaving New York for Los Angeles because the city was changing and no longer as inspiring as it was just a few short years ago.

And the announcement was that From Software was gonna have a new game called Eldon Ring.

And From Software makes I don't care if you know what they are. They're fucking awesome.

If you love a Dark Souls game, if you love a Bloodborne, you know games.

You're a serious adult. You're not just shooting people in army fatigues. You're playing a real fucking game.

But here's the twist. The lore of the game was written by George R.R. Martin, which means five years ago, George R.R. Martin got on the phone with his editor and said I'm almost done. I just need to do a little bit more work. And then he hung up that phone, didn't finish for half a decade, let other people finish the telling the story, and then in a true tour de force of procrastination, created an entirely new video game world all to avoid failure. Finishing the Winds of Winter.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.

It's actually from the 1996 book, 'A Return to Love'.

My decision to quote both Love in the Time of Cholera and 100 Years of Solitude with which folks apparently weren't familiar was a little on the nose, but I think it worked really well.

I really recommend to everybody listening that they read the book. There's your book, there's Adam Jendelson's book, Killswitch, about the Senate. There's Heather McGhee's book, The Sum of Us.

And my my wife wrote a book called Represent the Woman's Guide to Running for Office and Saving the World.

It is now out on paperback.

It was a critical success.

So they re-released it on paperback.

I'm on a new tour for it.

I talk about how the election, I had this huge election party at my house, and it was so just liberal bubble.

Yeah, the book is Kama Sutra for Mushroom Dick Dummies

And Ezra's content is the tip of the spear for one of Biden's most important constituencies, elder millennials who know where their birth certificate and Social Security card is. And they have a lot of opinions about Trader Joe's, the kind of people who read Infinite Just in college and know that people do cocaine but have never seen it.

You have a murder mystery coming out next month called Murder on Sex Island, a Luella Van Horn mystery.

And Murder on Sex Island, a Luella Van Horn mystery hits stores in June. I'm excited about that.

So you have a new book coming out next month titled Sure I'll Join Your Cult.

Well, I got to tell you, if you've ever been to Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous, had a lot of hot times, late 90s, freeway entrance ramp motels.

And then Debtors Anonymous is like if Tony Robbins were four foot nine.

And then Overeaters Anonymous, Overeaters Anonymous is, that's kind of the grimest one, I think. It's not a lot of fun because there's no snacks.

Reading A Clockwork Orange to your fucking children