It's the second part of a longer interview - it was about 12 minutes altogether.

So they just sell recordings by 1980s Australian band the Divinyls? That's what I call a niche market.

Emma! Look! I've got etheric beam locators!

Ha - yes, the Stainless Steel Rat books were exactly the science fiction novels I had in mind (I grew up in Australia, so they must have been universally popular with that category of junior high non-reader). And I guess “crappy” was probably kind of unfair - I’d read them all myself, multiple times; and they sure…

In eleven years it's going to be 1984, man. Think about that.

It's usually adblockers that do things like that (i.e. I can't see them either).

Which is better: A Hard Day's Night (the Beatles LP, 1964), Benjamin Britten's 1964 recording of his Sinfonia da Requiem, or Henry Moore's Two-Piece Reclining Figure No. 5 (bronze, also 1964)?

Who's the better Emperor of the Known Universe: Shaddam IV, or Paul Muad'Dib?

Bob Hawke wasn't a celebrity. It's true he was in the public eye for a decade before he became an MP, but that was as leader of a national trade union organisation. He certainly used it as a platform to publicise himself, but he also did actual work in the job.

I certainly hope it's different now, but when I was a boy (many decades ago) there wasn't really any expectation that boys would want or need to read books like this - so, i.e. when the girls in my school were reading Judy Blume novels, boys of an equivalent age were reading, well, mostly nothing; but if they did…

What's wrong with you?! That's not how you spell "sugarcoat".

I'd pay for access to an AV Club that had a non-Disqus based commenting system, or at least one that didn't make it easy for Breitbart nutjobs to swarm comment threads en masse whenever the spirit moved them (as per this thread).

No, no. He IS the greatest American hero ever. Much as we now turn our awestruck gaze upon that painting of Washington crossing the Delaware, future generations will be able to do the same with oil paintings of Stephen Miller Heroically Entering the Alamo Drafthouse Theater.

Yes he is, this is incontestably true. Stand aside, George Washington: your place in the pantheon has been usurped by Stephen Miller, the greatest American hero ever.

As an old guy, I haven't really been keeping up with this superhero movie craze, but I have to say I always enjoyed your television serial back in the day, Superman!

It would seem to be real - it took them two weeks of constant filming, and along the way, they filmed a number of almost-but-not-quite-right sequences, until they got the one they wanted: http://www.vulture.com/2017…

Yes, exactly. To be fair, the new version isn’t horrible, and the cast acquits themselves pretty well. But if you grew up with the 1980s version, this one is just kind of redundant.

Colleen Dewhurst and Richard Farnsworth as Marilla and Matthew, or GTFO

I go by eyebrows.

Okay: 1) I didn’t say that, so good job there, misrepresenting what I did say. 2) I actually don’t disagree with the “art for art’s sake” standpoint in the abstract, but what do you know: when the art is about something I personally find horrifying and abhorrent, in a story told about my home town, and the recounting…