Don't Smoke Buddha

A.J. Jacobs interviewed by Daniel Radosh on Jewcy. Go to A.J.'s talk at the Y next week.

Radosh's new book Rapture Ready! Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture. Go to the Does Christian Rock Suck? Debate.

(I read approximately one book a year, give or take a prison sentence, and this was the one. It exceeded my expectations, which were pretty high to begin with given his blog, so I now feel smart enough to not touch another until 2009. If Spiers unleashes her beehive tomb anytime soon as a cellphone novel I'm definitely willing to make an exception.)

Muslim Punk Rock. Go to Baltimore, of course.