I read a recommendation of the book My Custom Van and 50 Other Mind-Blowing Essays That Will Blow Your Mind All Over Your Face by Michael Ian Black, and it was persuasive enough to get me to look into the matter further. The book's title was appealing, but as far as I knew I'd never heard of the author. Then I saw the cover. Wait a minute, I recognize him! That's that dude with the posture of a gay man from all those VH1 shows! This realization gave me pause.I wasn't sure how much I wanted to read a book by a professional maker of wry comments. As nearly as I could tell, the extent of this guy's routine was just doing the same thing you do when you hang out with your drinking buddies: "Hey, remember that thing from when we were eight years old? Wasn't that awesome / stupid?" But the book is more than just VH1-style too-cool-for-school ironic detachment. It actually features, you know, funny stuff. It's true that some of the essays don't live up to the promise of their comical titles, but most of them do. And when the book his a home run—as with "Vampires – Good ...