He does. I only found out about his writing career after I met him at an event in Chicago back in the late 90's, so I had this kind of reaction in reverse.

Lousie, deranged? Pshaw. She just has a healthy disregard for the mores of the staid society in which she finds herself trapped and is acting in a perfectly rational way to tear down the banality all around her in a way that others may see as ruthless or even psychotic. Not the same thing at all.

Neigh!

That must make you some kind of witch. WITCH!!

Plus it's all mountains in the middle of a body of water that includes a huge open ocean on one side and a shallow, relatively warm sea on the other.

Black Adder is probably my favorite TV show of all time (It grapples with Dr. Who, and they switch places from time to time), and while series 4 isn't my favorite - it's my 3rd favorite - y'all are making me want to see it again.

I know this will end up on, like, page 50, but here goes anyway.

I quite like that one as well. Easily my favorite by Eliot.

I love that one. Probably my favorite cummings piece as well.

I've seen Big O, I know what the 'tomatoes' are.

Isn't that how everyone remembers it?

Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny!

I thought the weevils were for protein.

Can't we just be glad there are two characters like this on the air? Must we descend to internet fisticuffs?

And then there's the obsession with zombie buts and , ugh, fan fiction.

I got that vibe from the song, too. Part of it is Jon's singing voice in that falsetto.

Lucy was a favorite around my household, too. I'd love to see more of it, but it did have a good end point, so I don't think they intended it to go on.

For a given value of 'over-the-top', this one qualifies. And I mean that in a good way. I love this movie, but not because of its story-telling merits.

It definitely had a wendigo flavor to the critter in the first part of the book. I've even read that polar bears are often associated with the wendigo, so the supernatural edge to the thing hunting them wasn't really hard for me to accept. Maybe its a cousin.

Knowing the, ah, trajectory of the book, that would be hilarious.