Yeah, the early collections (after the first) had some great stuff in them. The "kitchen cabinet" stuff especially.

I don't know that I hate Sim, 'cause that doesn't seem worth the energy, but I felt seriously creeped out and betrayed by Reads; like, this is what all of this is building up to? What a waste of my time. Which is of course the risk you take every time you pick up a book (or go to a play, or put on an album, or whatever) but it felt worse because of all that had gone before it.