Dot. Dot. Dot.

I'm not sure who invented it, but back in the days of newspaper yore, when one of the great columnists — Mike Royko, Herb Caen, Jimmy Breslin — had a lot to cover and too little time, they'd throw out a "three-dot" column: a bunch of random items from the notebook separated by three dots. I'm slammed, but I need to feed the blog, so here are some of the things that have been distracting me from the real work.

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American Vampire by Stephen King and Scott Snyder hit the stands yesterday, and...