Table of Contents---links.

THIS IS A LIST OF THE CONTENTS OF THIS BLOG.  

BOOKS FOR THE BORED, DEPRESSED, AND STRESSED

• "Keep the Ending to Yourself, Damozel, and We'll Throw in a Remembrall and an Invisibility Cloak."
• Comfort Food for the Psyche:  Why I Love the Novels of Ann Tyler
• "A Modicum of Blood, Shed Deliberately and Carefully Husbanded."  Ghost Stories:  Treat them Gently!
• Updike for the 21st Century:  Let Us Praise Him with Faint Damns.
• Second-Hand Bookstore Gold:  H.H. Munro (Saki)
• Lynda Barry Rocks My World:  The! Greatest! of! Marlys!, One Hundred Demons, and Cruddy.
• It's Always About the Templars.  Umberto Eco:  Foucault's Pendulum (Translated by William Weaver).

TELEVISION, FILMS, & MUSIC FOR THE JADED

• The Office (UK):  Accept No Substitutes.  How Watching It Will Improve Your Life.
• That's Television WITHOUT Pity.
• To do a Proper Gallows Laugh Requires a Stiff Upper Lip:  The British Gift for Mordant Comedy.
• Peter Sellers rocks The Party.
• Compare and Contrast:  Guilty, Frothy Television pleasures: Footballer's Wives vs. Desperate Housewives.
• Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares
• Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Tom Stoppard, and Shakespeare.
• The Office (US):  A Tribute.
• Three British Emmy Winners: Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares.
• Three British Emmy Winner:  Ray Winstone.

THE INNER OFFICE (NBC):  SEASON 3 RECAPS & COMMENTARY.

• The Office (UK):  Accept No Substitutes.  How Watching It Will Improve Your Life.

• Gay Witch Hunt [recap and commentary]
• "It is Michael You Mourn For."  Recap of "Grief Counseling" (aired 10-12-2006).
• The Office (US):  A Tribute.
• "When You are Ready for the Sales Office, the Sales Office Will Appear." Recap of "The Initiation" (aired 1019-2006).
• "Diwali."  Recap and commentary  [aired 2 November 2006].
• "Branch Closing---The Producer's Cut."  Recap and commentary.  (aired 9 November 2006).
• "Can't We All Just Get Along?"  "The Merger."  Recap and commentary.  (aired 15 November 2006).
• "The Convict."   Recap and commentary (aired 30 November 2006).

THE ****ING NON-STICK PAN:  WHY WE LOVE GORDON RAMSAY

• Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares.
• Ramsay for President!  A kickass idea for a new reality show.
• Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares.
• Our First Encounter with the F Word.
• Ramsay's Mother and the F Word.
• More Love for Gordon Ramsay (but don't try this at home, kids).
• Gordon Ramsay's Christmas Turkeys and a Poem by John Crowe Ransom:  There IS a connection.
• Three British Emmy Winners: Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares.

WEBSITES AND PASTTIMES FOR RELIEVING ANGST

• Diverse Delights:  Manolo the Shoeblogger
• Go Fug Yourself:  Tasty Schadenfreude at One of the Net's (and Typepad's) Most Popular
• Recommended for the Jaded:  Ohmigod, it's so cuuuuuuuute!  The Addictive Bliss of Cute Overload.
• The Joys of Dover Press.  Isn't it time for a little recreation that will really do the job?
• More Joy from Dover Press.  Paper Dolls and Coloring Books for the Turn of the Millenium Child.  Merry Christmas!