While I love end-of-credits scenes, I also find that staying through credits is a good way to learn about the film, and the people who worked on it. Sometimes, you even get good music out of it, which is never a bad thing.

Thank Zod that Days of Future Past retconned Wolverine: Origins out of existence.

Another factor is that there are a number of aerospace factories where test flights often go out on the west coast. Combine a test flight with some of the cool lenticular cloud formations that can sometimes show up, and voila! UFO!

Unless you have a hot tub in the witness stand, there’s no way you could get Ra’s into the courtroom. That man loves himself a good soak.

Mario Lopez played AC Slater on Saved By The Bell (ask anyone who was a kid in the 90's). His long-suffering girlfriend was named Jessie. Now that the joke is explained, it is hilarious!

Yeah, while Feast for Crows has a weaker individual interest curve as a stand-alone novel, it serves as a necessary palate-cleanser for the series as a whole, setting the stage for developments to come. It's a necessary breather that gives us a chance to understand the characters better.

For the past couple years, I have been helping sell board games at conventions, and have found that the biggest difficulty is often selling the big-ticket items. Anything $35 or less is in the range of "impulse purchase" for enough convention-goers that you can easily sell them all day long. Also, these items tend to…

I think you misunderstand. He's not saying you can't have access to the internet while you write. He's just saying don't have it on the same machine on which you are writing, because that way it will require a measure of volition to look something up online in that situation. If you have online connectivity on the…

I really want her to be right about the Yeti and Sasquatch and the like. I don't think that she is, but I want her to be.

In terms of success rate, I had to give it to Marvel.

I think there is also something to be said for the fact that, while Firefly was great, Game of Thrones is great, and is continually producing great television as we speak. We can only speculate about what Firefly season 2, or 3, or 4 would have been like, but we know Game of Thrones season 2, 3, and 4 have been…

Far out! Dortmund is one of my favorites, too! After the 2010 World Cup, I found myself looking for the tactical mongoose to the cobra that was Spain's Tiki Taka. I found my answer in Jurgen Klopp's gegenpress, and I haven't looked back.

Plus, Arsenal have a system in place that means they will always embrace an attractive, free-flowing attacking play style that is fun to watch. Unfortunately, Wenger still hasn't figured out what a defensive midfielder is, so it means that wins will typically be the result of flat-out outscoring their opposition,…

The difficulty is that, as Americans, most of us have few direct ties to a European team. Thus, we end up supporting teams that we enjoy watching or who have players we appreciate. You can say you hate Man U, or Arsenal, or Man City, or Chelsea all you like, but the fact is, a neutral with no particular rooting…

Ballast Point has become one of my favorite breweries over the past couple of years. If you want a killer stout, I strongly recommend you check out their Victory at Sea.

Not gonna' lie: I assume that anything featuring either actor is really a prequel to Terriers. My head-canon is the best head-canon.

You got that exact same feeling the moment any time Sisko and Dukat had to work together.

If you ever get a chance, I highly recommend Ballast Point's Victory At Sea Imperial Stout. It is probably one of the tastiest out there. Not sure about their distribution, so it might not be something readily available in your neck of the woods, but I've seen it in Washington, Oregon, and California, for what it's…

Sort of. A shadow war is a particular type of proxy war, in that it involves the use of cat's paws to accomplish a hidden end, but it is unique from other types of proxy wars in that it tightly integrates information warfare and non-military activity into the strategy as a whole.

I am in favor of this. I absolutely loved the Rogue Squadron and Wraith Squadron books back in the day, so I will be interested to see if and how any of those characters are integrated into the new canon. Even if they aren't, I think there's some real possibility with this concept that bears exploration. Color me…