This week’s episode includes: Somerset Maugham and Confucius, Thom Gunn’s “Sweet Things,” top five habits of highly ineffective coworkers, Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human and Sister Act II: Back, John Dryden, endlessbookshelf.net, Fleming’s Follies, featuring Eye Smoking Guy, Guinness Book of World Records guy who smokes seven packs at once, monkey scratching its ass, invaluable bad habit facts of the week, Mark Twain on habits, Bad Book Cover of the Week, Night of the Living Hell, book plots that hinge on the acquisition or loss of funds, an Australian in a funky Bedford nearly runs over a koala, Hooker, Okalahoma, top five superstitions, Ernest Hilbert’s poem “In Bed for a Week” from the New Criterion, reprint of Hilbert’s In Memoriam for Thom Gunn from the December 2004 issue of the Contemporary Poetry Review, and much more fun stuff. Check it out!