Been doing a lot of planning for this year's set of courses, so I've re-read The Catcher in the Rye, John Berger's Ways of Seeing, part of Plato's Republic, and a textbook. For fun, I read Chuck Klosterman's Sex, Drugs and Coco-Puffs, which was equal parts amusing and infuriating.
Klosterman always manages to pick examples to illustrate his ideas that, for whatever reason, I ENTIRELY disagree with. In the essay he wrote on the coolness/greatness divide of Billy Joel, he made an off-handed comment about how silly it is when people defend artists on the strength of their deep cuts, not their radio hits. The example he uses to illustrate this point is Dexy's Midnight Runners. But Dexy's WERE a great band--it's not their fault they were a one-hit wonder act in this country! Their deep cuts are great!
There were others, but that stuck out. My favorite line, though, was, "What in Andrew WK was that all about?"