Confederacy of Dunces

Despite the title above, this is not another George W. Bush post.

The movie version of the John Kennedy Toole novel (funniest ever written, it says here) is finally underway with Phillip Seymour Hoffman as the gargantuan Ignatius J. Reilly. That's a good sign, but the fact that Drew Barrymore is involved is not.

Here's a link to a good page featuring an excerpt from Walker Percy's intro to the novel.