For those of you who can't get enough of Brokeback Mountain, there's KCRW Bookworm with Annie Proulx - turn up the volume, because Michael Silverblatt talks really low.

I just finished reading Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen. I'd forgotten how good it is. I like Elinor as a protagonist much more than Fanny, even though the two characters are superficially similar. I didn't realize how much scandal(!) there was, too; women being seduced! Libertines! Of course our heroine does not succumb to the libertine. She has too much honor for that. Although I think it would be interesting if she did.

I browsed the magazine section today, like I always do, and sort of marveled at all the magazines with very, very specific markets. There's Conceive (which, I don't know, if you're trying to conceive and you have no real problems, wouldn't it only be worth about 2 issues?), there's Hair and Short Hair, Cosmo, CosmoGirl, Cooking with Paula Deen, etc, etc. I would really love to be at those meetings where they pitch them - "Look, we'll have this cooking magazine, but it'll have Paula Deen writing in a Southern accent and then people will think it's authentic!"

I kind of like TeenVogue. I used to like NYLON, but it's all style, no substance now. Not that there was much substance then, but I'd at least look through the magazine again. GiantRobot is going bimonthly this year, so I think it's about time I subscribed. This month's issue was awesome - lots of great art, lots of interviews with interesting people, including an Asian American guy who shot up a school and is in prison for life.

I haven't even watched the latest Project Runway yet, and I already know who lost. (Don't know who won yet - don't tell me.) And you know how I found out? From reading fucking James Wolcott. He's supposed to be writing about politics!

Politics sucks. What else is new?

The San Francisco Bay Guardian changed its look. I like it; it's much cleaner, and it's smaller, thus easier to hold up. I don't know if I like the editor's note being on the cover page, though. Looks a little messy. Last week's cover story was about how the police did nothing about an attempted murder. How this is shocking, I don't know.

LA Weekly also redesigned-their website at least. There's an interesting debate between one of the movie critics there and Roger Ebert, about whether Crash is the best movie of 2005 or the worst movie of 2005. I haven't watched the movie yet; maybe we'll rent it one weekend or something. I just find the commentary about the race relations interesting.

My pick for best movie of 2005 is A History of Violence. I think I watched it when it first came out and I still can't get it out of my head. It is seriously disturbing.