Eugene Mirman - "En Garde, Society!"

Comedy is incredibly subjective. This makes it really hard to critique. That said, if your idea of hilarity is to call your local pizza parlor and order a large pepperoni pie, hold the pepperoni (!), this is the disc for you.

Odds and sods

There are all sorts of serious reviews of that are sitting in three-quarters- finished draft format right now, because I can't quiiiiiite finish them, and because there are these other lesser items, discussed below, littering the canyons of my mind. So, quickly:

I'm not quite sure what George Tabb is most famous for--I was familiar with him as a MaximumRocknRoll columnist, but he's also been in all sorts of bands of varying degrees of obscurity and fame. His new memoir, Surfing Armageddon: Fishnets, Fascists, and Body Fluids in Florida, details his teenage years, during which his insane, abusive father uprooted the family from their tony Connecticut enclave and moved them down to Florida. It's a bildungsroman involving sex, punk rock, personal identity crises, and the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Parts of Surfing Armageddon are entertaining, but overall it reminds me of that friend in school whose seemingly endless stories were hilarious but totally unbelievable.

Moving on: