Loch Ness is in China now?

it would be hard for me to decide who my favorite is to win.

I’m gonna go ahead and say that most of Herbert’s novels are better suited for movie adaptation than most of Stephen King’s. Herbert was a good, sometimes great writer, and even when you can high-concept his plots (killer fog! scary rats! neo-Nazi occultists! haunted house in a forest! religious wackos!) he always put…

it sticks close to the book

I don’t think it’s statistics we should be worried about. School shootings are rare, but they happen and nothing is done about it, because it’s too soon. Then the next one happens so it’s still too soon. What I’m sick about is the idea that anyone trying to do something is accused of “politicizing” a shooting. What…

I rarely watch the Emmys, but after seeing “Janet(s) on The Good Place, I thought, well, D’arcy Carden is amazing, what an incredible episode, so I’ll watch this year because she’ll win and probably have a sweet and funny acceptance speech.

I forgot that Carrie was a pyrokinetic too! I was thinking of Charlie from Firestarter and thought that maybe King wouldn’t condone the actual blazing murder of government employees.  But maybe he would.  I might too.

I liked the third book.. As with the other two there are detailed flashback scenes, so you get to know people who might be gone in the “present”. I think by the time Lynch finishes the books (he planned... 5? 7? I don’t remember) we will have a complete biography of Locke Lamora, dealt to us a bit at a time, which I…

That discussion seems .. reasonable.

Holy moley, Andrew Scott would be PERFECT as Locke Lamora. Who for Jean Tannen though?

Is that you, Stephen Colbert?

I don’t remember much about House Party except that Robin Harris as Pop was fucking hilarious and it’s sad he’s gone.

Yeah, I’ll never forget the time Stephen King started a fire with his mind and burned all those government agents.

That’s what I wanted to hear. The only Atwood I’ve read is Handmaid’s and the Oryx & Crake books (I know, I know, I should read more of hers) - but A Handmaid’s Tale is literally one of my favorite books and I reread it every couple of years.

It’s not like Atwood hasn’t done sequels before - Oryx & Crake has two, making it an actual trilogy. Just like a fantasy/s-f writer!

Hope Hawley will be able to start working on his Cat’s Cradle series

clear enough in South America to allow divers to swim with anacondas

I haven’t read the story, but here’s my guess as to what’s hiding in the tall grass:  SHORTER grass.  Because man that would be hard to spot.

Damn. She was one of my favorite reporters - smart, insightful and able to break down complex political happenings in a way that I understood them without being bored or feeling dumb. Plus - her voice had a calmness and precision that made things seem ... not so bad.  Even when they were.  Are.

Trust us, they’re funnier when you can actually see the comics