Yeah, what he said.

Yesterday on Slate, a guy named Taylor Clark posted one of the best articles I've read in a long time about being a vegetarian. Check it out.

I agree with almost everything in there, except the part about bacon. It must be because I've never eaten the stuff, but bacon has always smelled gross to me, even when I was a carnivore. It makes me feel the same way olives do—disgusted and slightly envious, because people who love bacon and olives looooooooove bacon and olives. But those foods just aren't my thing.

What I mean is, pass the extra-sharp cheddar and the cherry tomatoes and the crusty baguette. Thanks.

In other news, John Updike took 1,800 extra words in the New Yorker to say almost exactly the same thing about Andy Greer's new novel that I did in this month's issue of San Francisco. So he may be way more famous and whatever, but I said it a week earlier. And faster. Ha!