Will BBC3 (the Beeb's retarded stepchild) stoop to any level* to fill up it's hours and hours of airtime? There's only one way to find out!

Absolutely. Not a lot of writers left now who can portray the modern world as skewed and messed-up as it really is. I plan to commemorate him by running amuck in a shopping mall.

Michael Bay is the stupid man's … wait, there's no way to finish that sentence.

"the Governess in James' "Turn of the Screw" and any film adaptations."

I looked it up cause I wasn't sure, and Jason Heller cops to being a big Ballard fan in one of the AVQ&As. So come on, A.V. Club: Newswire entry, A.V. Blog obituary, My Year of Ballards feature - just give the man his due.

And while we're on TV shows, The Office's Take Your Daughter To Work Day episode. Ryan and Stanley's daughter, Dwight and Meredith's son, Michael and Toby's daughter, Pam and all of the kids … no one came out of that looking good. Except Jim, who initiated that one kid into the mysteries of paper salesmanship.

Mad Men
I nominate Betty Draper looking after Glen, Helen Bishop's creepy kid.

Didn't Moe have to mind Maggie for an evening once? He bonds with her by re-enacting the plot of The Godfather with toys.

"And as a grrriim finale, she has caged that poor baby, to send it to a watery grrrrraaave!"

"They was jammies! They had Yodas and shit on 'em!"

I remember reading the story in a collection of American short fiction. It's a decent slice of late-60s experimental storytelling - if you like Richard Brautigan, you'll probably like it.

War of The Worlds is Technical Genius Spielberg combining with Ickily Sentimental Spielberg, except the two sides don't work as well together as they once did. From an acting and plot standpoint, the film is a crapfest, but there's always something amazing-looking onscreen. The burning commuter train, that tracking…

Now that's a sex scene I'd pay to see!

Claire: It's the adenoids in Boy and the plane crash in Going Solo that stick with me. (I remember giving them a mention in last week's "Childhood scares" discussion.)

A pivotal moment in my childhood was when I read Boy and Going Solo, and from there transitioned from his children's books to Henry Sugar and the Tales of the Unexpected stories, where *really* dark stuff went down.
Would I enjoy half the weird'n'twisted books/films/comics I do now if I hadn't been exposed to them at…

Great things my parents introduced to me:
Tintin
Asterix
Roald Dahl
Classic Disney films
Aardman animations
The Blues Brothers
The Beatles

"ZMF Again."

Get Carter. Watched it last night. Caine is pretty much the ultimate badass in it.

I enjoyed the first two volumes. Would I need to have read The Black Dossier to get into this new one?

Plus, there's the cast: