I think you should follow the NBA champion Miami Heat. Why?

Alpha Flight was, for the first twelve issues, an absolute delight. Even afterward, it was wondrously quirky and beautifully illustrated—Byrne got to design characters from scratch instead of re-designing old favorites (though he did some of that, too). Yes, it could be silly, and yes, it had faults. And maybe my…

Lady Macbeth dies from lack of sleep? No, it's pretty clear from the doctor's speech at the beginning of Act V (the sleepwalking scene) that he considers her to be a suicide risk. And in Malcolm's final speech in the play, he seems to state that she took her own life. Lack of sleep might have contributed—the only…

Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.

I have this theory that there's an appropriate line from The Princess Bride for every occasion. I was explaining this to a friend once, and he asked, "Well, what line would you have me use for my neighbor whose husband just passed away?" and I immediately replied, "He's only mostly dead."

Regarding #8: While the witches do appear in the opening scene of Macbeth, that's not where they utter the "Double, Double, Toil and Trouble" line. That's actually much later in the play—Act IV—when Macbeth goes to see them following the ghost of Banquo's appearance at the banquet.

It's not easy to make Person of Interest clear to those who do not regularly follow it. It is an even greater challenge to convey Lacanian analysis of a text to the general reader. To do both is a notable achievement. And to go further into the realm of ideas as they affect the real world is a remarkable bit of…

The Princess Bride also has great lines that can be used at parties:

Ooh. Good choice. That hadn't occurred to me, but it's a really insightful point.

I think that, with all the popularity of zombies in pop culture right now, we tend to forget that the movie that started it all was at its most frightening in its final moments—as we realized what should really scare us the most wasn't zombies.

Shadowboxin: That was one of the greatest responses to a missed reference I've ever read. I would suggest, though, that you put your Douglas Adams in quotes...that way, even people who haven't read him will realize you are making a witty allusion to wonderful source material. Then they won't feel as though you've…

What made it so wonderful for me is that you could enter it with only the most basic knowledge of the characters OR as a long-time superhero junkie, and the effect was the same—you believed those characters.

Flawed but delightful.

Agreed. Music might not make a child a better student, but music might make a student a better child.

I'm going to respectfully disagree. Making MORE art and BETTER art is, of course, a valuable investment. But I don't think one can argue effectively that investing in the creation of art is necessarily better than investing in the study of the art, especially when we're talking about an emergent field like comic art…

A good friend of mine was involved in the statistical analysis of the Duke cancer fraud a few years back. They covered it on 60 Minutes. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/deception…

Banyan trees do put out downward-reaching vine-like extensions. S0...just assume a lot of banyans.

I agree. To be completely honest, I enjoyed the movie despite its shortcomings...but I was most frustrated by the fact that they had tried to conceal that it was Khan. Perhaps if they hadn't done that, all of the little tips of the hat (and downright swipes) from STII:TWOK would have come across in a better…

The one where Benedict Cumberbatch is NOT Khan.

There are two things about it that I think appeal to a lot of people.