An American Gods miniseries?!? How have I missed this? Between this and the returns of both Justified and Sherlock, I am suddenly very very happy.

And Arthur Dent in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Just to add to the "hairy" part: I swear I do not intend this, at all, to be a body snark. But that dude has some seriously hairy hands. And where does hair on hands come from, according to superstition??

I've been dragged to that church. UGH. The worst was when the singer of the 12-piece rock/jazz band started singing about "Daddy God" with more vocal flourishes than Christina Aguilera. I finally told my host, "believe it or not, my decision to stop going to church was not based on the church being insufficiently…

Yeah, completely made up. The various visions all sounded the same, and the first go around he was vague about what he was describing ("this person touched you in this way"), which seemed just to be about protection of privacy or delicacy, but then he got into the woman committing adultery, and he was full of…

UCC = United Church of Canada? If so, that's my church! In 1994 the lesbian minister of the church I'd grown up in, which I had stopped attending a few years earlier when I was in high school, asked me if I wanted to join the mission and service committee. I said, "you know I'm an atheist, right?" and she said "yeah,…

Between deciding to show my 10-year-old Invictus tonight and now this, my tear ducts are having a rough evening.

Yeah, I think "cuddling" is an inaccurate descriptor here. If you click through, there are images of bodies in interestingly symmetrical or complimentary poses (like one where two people are in the fetal position, with their feet touching, creating a mirror image) that have nothing to do with cuddling.

I watched Into Darkness before seeing the Woman episode, and that was my turning point. Not sure what that says about me.

"I was 12".

This is exactly why I have historically tended to stay closeted about being bisexual. When I was younger it was assumed to be a phase or a plea for attention. Plus, I married a guy - young! - and we have kids and are monogamous, so obviously I'm straight, right?

You're not, and I will gladly share your comment (and all the responses that are in agreement) with my kid who has an anaphylactic nut allergy and has to put up with people acting like Nutella is some kind of food of the gods that he never gets to taste.

I love it! Between Starter for 10 and Atonement as my first exposure to both BC and McAvoy, they cemented my adoration for the latter and my creeped-out-ness by the former.

That sounds perfect.

When we took our kids to China and Japan in March, we included a trip that was an overnight train ride away, just so the kids could experience the hard sleepers. I love these things!

I think a lot of women would argue that Patrick Stewart fits that bill.

Yeah, the wet-baby-moving is the part that made me anxious as hell!

Your response is completely appropriate.

My youngest's first bath after birth was like this, and it definitely soothed him.

Ok, but. You did lead with all the squee animals and finish with the "don't shake your baby no matter how much he cries" poster child. That's hardly fair to the humans. On the other hand, as my 8-year-old puts it, "baby animals are fuzzy! Babies are ... squishy."