You should always keep in touch with your friends

You know, you go into a booze-and-vicodin-induced coma for a few days, and what happens? Great things happen to everyone around you. Please take note of Comfort of strangers, an article about literary blogs that speaks quite highly of the usual suspects.

And speaking of The Old Hag, you should really go check out her piece in the latest New York Times Book Review. It's so well done that it almost makes me ashamed that I haven't read a book in the past year. Almost.

(Part of me believes that I could be included in this coterie of literary blogs if I laid off the penis-and-boobies links for awhile. And the crank.)