Wednesday Hangovers

• Radar Online has an entertaining history of Hollywood's love affair with jingoistic villains.
• Justine on bad writing days and the effect on mood. YES.
• Matt Cheney recommends John Williams' Stoner.
• Apropos of its new excerpt policy, Ed thinks the AP should go whole hog and pay its sources, and he does the math.
• See also, Ed on the novels of Tiptree-winner Sarah Hall.
• Go read and vote in the Million Writers Award.
• Nicola is making a bunch of stuff related to her excellent, Lambda-award winning memoir And Now We Are Going to Have a Party available online. That you should check it out goes without saying.
• Glenn Beck and Ted Bell: Role models. Wait, make that DINOSAUR MORONS. (I love the transcript of Beck interviewing Stephanie Meyer that someone posted a link to in the comments of that discussion--although I'm hoping that she actually does know who Cormac McCarthy is and was just thrown off by some clown throwing non sequiturs at her. Still, hilarious.) Updated to add: Ted Bell posts a somewhat defensive (understandably) comment below and it is worth noting that this discussion is less about the book in question--which he wrote--and more about the unbelievable Glenn Beck interview, which can be viewed at the Guys Lit Wire post.
• Niall Harrison on The Happening, which I kind of want to go see mainly because the post-M. Knight rantiness is as addictive as a drug.
• Carrie's reading The Writing Class. Yay! Follow suit.