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And this week's Sean Penn Geez Lighten Up Award goes to the Vatican for appointing a cardinal to debunk Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. Errr wasn't that book classified as fiction? Don't you guys have anything better to do like...working on stopping world hunger, achieving world peace, or at the very least stopping priests from molesting young children? (via)

Hitler and the Vatican : Inside the Secret Archives That Reveal the New Story of the Nazis and the Church by Peter Godman With Pope John Paul II falling ill and missing Ash Wednesday mass for the first time in 26 years, concerned Catholics have begun wondering whether he would be retiring soon. The last pope to abdicate the Throne of St. Peter was almost 800 years ago ...

First Will Eisner passes away. Now, I just learned Dave Barry has written his last daily column for the Miami Herald. Bummer. I do hope he's not leaving just because people think he used to be funnier. I have to disagree. (I'd like to see his critics try to write a humour column everyday. It's hard. I tried my Barry pastiche here. It took me days ...

A preggers J.K. Rowling announced that the sixth Harry Potter book called Harry Potter and More Tons of Cash for Rowling and the Half-Blood Prince is due to hit the bookstore on 16 July 2005. Rowling said one of the characters will die. I hope it's that blasted, snotty Percy. I'm just reading till Rowling gets to Harry Potter and the Trip to the Drugstore.

Before picking up this book, I've stopped reading Stephen King. Not because I hated his stories or that as many of his critics would say, that his style is very pedestrian. No, I've stopped reading King because I couldn't keep up with his output. In his prime he came out with probably 2 novels a month it seemed. I didn't have the money nor the time to ...