Should have known after the long reserve list wait that it would be a letdown. I think Black's style is best suited to a live / on camera setting, whether it is with Stella or as part of the I Love The '70s Ate the '80s and Shat Out the '90s series. His deadpan style is more inconsistent on the written page and often comes off as "funny just plain weird" not "funny ha-ha."



An example of one of the better parts, from "When I Finally Get Around to Building My Robot, This is What It Will Be Like": "While I have nothing against sex robots per se, I am not going to build one because if I were to have sex with something I built, that would be a little like incest, and for the most part, I am against incest. If I do decide to obtain a sex robot one day, I will wait to purchase it until they are both widely available and the stigma of owning one has worn off. Then I will purchase two."