Great job on that Pulitzer, too.

I am in love with those pants.

Price's accent is bad. The mustaches, on the other hand, are exquisite.

Honey, where's my super suit?

From what I understand, babysitting itself is an exercise in survival horror.

Shovelware foments moral outrage! More at 11.

Beat me to it, dagnabbit!

Paul Gleason, forever in our hearts.

YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

@Musouka [Region 4]: I always liked the Epcot appeal of the Citadel.

@MrGOH: Your mileage may vary, of course. Josh Schwartz is also responsible both for Chuck (yay!) and Gossip Girl (barf!).

@Pojodin: I dig.

I've started watching The O.C. I saw a few episodes of the final season when it originally aired and liked them well enough, but didn't really understand what was going on. Now that I'm partway through season 2, I'm finding it to be a very enjoyable, geek-friendly show masquerading beneath the teen soap-opera veneer.

In a way, I envy people who learn English as a second (or third, or whatever) language. The great hassle of being a native speaker of the current global lingua franca is that it removes a major motivation for studying another language. Then again, if/when the Chinese become top dog maybe we'll have that motivation.

@GeneralMeow: I think most native speakers of a language — because they learned it organically— take a bit more of a cavalier approach to that language's mechanics. This is especially so with English, since there are no national academies or international bodies, and it can still be understood even after a fair amount…

Too rich for my blood.

No. Just no! Every time something like this happens somebody trots out the old standby: it's because of violent video games/scary satanic rock music/whatever. You know what? I'm sure that Jared Loughner has played violent video games, because he's a 22 year-old American male and pretty much every person his age plays…

2 and 4 are my favorites. I really liked their portrayal of Old St. Peter's, and number 4 looks like the Domus Aurea.

All that was sabotaged was my suspension of disbelief.

Barf.