1.  Jay can't pronounce sherbet properly, but Gloria can. Interesting.
2. "My daughter might go to college"? So community college . . . not an option? It would seem to be perfect for someone like Haley.

I love the idea of a gentleman's shiv.

People's Choice Awards. Nice. (On the other hand, most artistic awards that declare this work or that work in the field the "best" are inherently bullshit.)

Since I was too lazy to look up past winners/nominees to date that, I guess I'm also too lazy to look up the criteria. Did they ever change it from science fiction to, say, speculative fiction? Or is this just the problem with being a fan-voted award? Not to mention, a fan-voted award that you can only vote on if…

Anymore, I'm mystified by the Hugos. Either that or they're just showing how few actual sf novels are getting published these days. Leviathan Wakes is fast and fun, but if it's one of the five best novels of the year, that worries me. And since A Dance with Dragons is on the list, I'm not sure when the Hugos went from…

But its Amazon page has three five-star reviews and only one single-star review. Therefore, as these things are determined, it must be of fairly high quality and not at all insane.

The equation that kept running through my mind watching TCOP:

If you have a squint and dyslexia—more commonly known as squintlexia—CBS looks remarkably like ABC. Easy mistake to make.

I tried watching it a few years ago, but I couldn't get into it. I think I gave it 15 or 20 minutes before I stopped. I know that probably wasn't long enough, but I may just have been in the wrong mood for it that day.

The Sweet Hereafter is amazing and heartbreaking. For me, it's a rare example of a movie that's better than the book. If nothing else, Egoyan's choice to add the telling of the Pied Piper story is simply inspired.

In reverse chronological order:

I'll take Joe Wright's Pride & Prejudice over Atonement. I know some people despise it, but that attitude is mystifying to me. Wright takes a book that's difficult to adapt into a two-hour movie—both b/c legions of readers love it and know it by heart and b/c so many people will automatically compare it the 1990s…

Yeah, by that point in his career, after the success of The 25th Hour, it was pretty clear Benioff was a Hollywood writer. Not to say that City of Thieves is bad, but it does scream, a little too loudly and desperately, "For godsake, somebody turn me into a movie."

Well, at least Outland got a mention.

Everything you just quoted and everything you just said perfectly describes Castle.

Noooooooo!!!

No, for the most part, they actually do show the dematerialization/materializiation process. It's just one second the person's there, the next they're not. There's no fun Star Trek transporter effect or anything like that.

Yeah, it's probably for the best I'm not in the mood for Roadside Picnic right now. I generally tell myself not to read the book right before watching the film, and then I usually go and do it anyway. While there are always exceptions, the film tends to feel either thin or outright frustrating when it makes changes…

I just more of his stuff was in print—there's still early work of his I've never read. So far his only book I couldn't finish was The Ongoing Moment. But that seemed to be a matter of divergent interests: I've never studied or been particularly intrigued by photography as an art form.

Cue "Yakety Sax."