Capaldi was great, but I kept thinking that his performance owed something to Tom Baker (weird soliloquies, and all that).

If I've persuaded one AV Clubber to read Miss Manners, then my work here is done. Her concerns are sometimes old-fashioned and low-stakes (often it's old ladies arguing about the protocols for thank-you notes and who sits where at the wedding)…but I get a kick out of her writing, and find the underlying subject of…

I don't really mind moving other people's clothes (and don't care if others move mine). I shouldn't have to, but it takes five seconds, and that's a small price to pay for getting what I want: to use the machines whenever I need to. My neighbors are proposing a wacky alternative system, though: I'm not allowed to…

If you ever read Miss Manners (and you should: she's awesome), you'll see one elementary message repeated over and over again: no matter how out of line you think the other person is, it's really rude to call out the other person on their rudeness. (At least, on small stuff, breaking little etiquette rules, like the…

After reading that we all have microscopic mites living on our faces, I realized it's pointless to worry about this sort of thing.

Problem 1: the interface is obnoxious (even with hot keys). If you're in the heat of battle and you have to go into your inventory five times to change spells, that's a buzzkill.

I've been screwing around with Skyrim (again) all week. I'm trying to specialize in magic, since I overlooked that aspect of the game in previous playthroughs…but it's kind of a drag: why do all the spells suck?

People love her voice: what else is there to say? I dig Janis, though her catalog is pretty thin, since she died so young.

Comes in handy when you're having a heated argument with a six-year-old.

My cat is partial to printing/scanning noises. Ironically, she doesn't seem to care for Cat Power.

As I understand it, the issue is not so much creating negative associations, but confusing consumers about who created this or that product. E.g., the law is designed to stop me from selling the beer that I made in my cellar as Budweiser…but it can't stop me from going on TV and saying that Bud tastes like cat piss…

Naive question: in sitcoms, you often see fake brands (character wears a Splepsi T-shirt, to avoid angering Pepsi), or on reality shows, logos will be greyed out. Why go to all this trouble, when (from a common sense p.o.v.) wearing a Pepsi shirt would clearly fall under fair use? I understand the caution, if it's…

I wish you luck in your struggle to get people to write like you want them to write.

SCREW YOU GUYS, I'M GOING HOME.

I think we can agree that it is significant, in some yet-to-be-explained way, that Jon Snow is on the poster, rather than somebody else. (That's all I've got.)

As long as he's purple. Tennant was not nearly purple enough.

I've got two big pet peeves: (a) what you've just described, when people choose the "fancier" substitute over a humbler but perfectly acceptable word (e.g., replacing "use" with "utilize"…drives me crazy), and (b) people who derail a conversation in order to correct the other guy's usage.

1) Watched Jessica Jones, and more Jessica Jones. Kilgrave/Tenant is pretty fascinating, as a character, but also as an ethical dilemma (if you could control people's minds, how would you use that power?).

That Werther was quite an original.

I haven't thought about Nuke since roughly 1986, so I was pleased with myself for putting that together. I wonder how Nuke's gonzo vibe will fit with this show.