There are too many great moments in House Party — the film debut of Kid & Play — to list. One of my favorites occurs when Sidney and Sharane are sitting outside Sharane’s home and her little brother calls out, “I’m making Kool Aid! You want Grape or Red?”
She indignantly answers, “RED!” as though it was the stupidest question ever. Moments later, we see the boy pouring an entire bag of sugar into a pitcher.
In that spirit, I offer you this week’s Lost in the Supermarket, straight from the Sam’s Club in Kenner, LA:
I’m making vodka! You want grape or raaaaiiiid?
See the whole Lost in the Supermarket series
on the flight down to New Orleans, then started 
. It’s a fun novel, rolling across America in 1848-9, but it makes the exact same idiotic decision as Michael Clayton (and a bazillion other books and movies): Part 1 opens in April 1848, and then flashes back 2 months and spends the next hundred or so pages catching up to that opening scene. And here’s the kicker: there’s nothing about that scene that necessitated putting it at the front of book. DON’T USE FLASHBACK UNLESS IT’S INTEGRAL TO THE STRUCTURE OF THE STORY!
, by The National and the eponymous debut of 
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, by Portishead.