Am I the only one who catches FG & AD on Hulu later, rather than sitting through Cleveland?
I hope the Cleveland Show is done sooner rather than later, because I tend to shut the TV off at 8:30 on Sundays now and find something else to do, catching up on MacFarlane's other shows later online…

I thought it was much better than the awful wedding episode last week, which may have been the worst of the series.

Anyone else read the novel by Dennis Lehane?
I just read the novel recently (from the same author as "Mystic River" and "Gone Baby Gone") and started out loving it, then hated it about midway through when it seemed to be going dangerously off the rails, abandoning all its own internal story logic, and then ended up…

I'm sorry, too — I took my response a little too far and would probably delete it now, if we had that capability here. I didn't mean to get weird. (insert embarrassed smiley face emoticon)

Gee, inle, thanks for the personal hygiene and social life tips. I do spend time with people of all ages. I may not get to get out and party much, since I coach my teenage daughter's soccer team and have been involved with my preteen son's Scout troop for years. Of all the dozens and dozens of kids and their parents…

Jorge Von Salsa, it just seemed like an alien, unlikely scenario to me. It seems in my subjective experience that people either discover and acquire a taste for comics as a kid, or not.

I'm curious - has this scenario actually happened to anyone else?
The original question's scenario here intrigues me with its suggestion of an alternate universe that I apparently don't live in. I'm in my forties, and as a lifelong comic book nerd I've never been asked once by anyone claiming to be a new reader to…

talk about a mixed blessing — the series' resurrection seems like Pet Sematary now, a "careful what you wish for" deal that ends in zombie mockeries of your loved ones

Along the same lines, I wish that "bestseller" book lists were forced to disclose which books had their listing bought by organizations buying warehouses full of the title to artificially inflate sales figures, only to be given away later as promotional gifts, just so some gasbag can call him/herself a "bestselling…

I refuse to ever see a movie based on a videogame, ever
(folding arms across chest)

It has also barely rained here in the Seattle area for months now, and my lawn is also nearly dead…

Kiki and Totoro are two of the top ten best kids' movies ever.

Speaking of time-skipping
Did it occur to anyone else that for a brief few minutes, there, while Richard and Ben and Locke encountered Locke's time-skipping doppelganger, that elsewhere on the island, Sawyer, Juliet, Miles, Daniel and Charlotte were discovering the hatch? If only they'd ventured elsewhere on the…

Agreed, thought not on that Sit Down show, which I wouldn't watch on a dare.

I also loved those animated series novelizations, and you may be happy to know that Alan Dean Foster wrote the novelization of the new Trek, which in turn has a few "Yesteryear"-like themes…

Another good bit of nerd street theater is to stumble up to a random stranger and demand to know what year it is, looking anguished.

Jaws and Close Encounters
Tasha, I'm with you on the Star Trek terror — one of my biggest fears as a kid was a mashup of the white-faced alien (from the episode "The Corbomite Maeuver) that would always come up during the end credits, and the Greys from various shows and TV movies that started up in the wake of the…

I just caught up on the entirety of Season 4 thanks to Hulu, and thought it was actually an improvement over season 3, where things got so unbelievably dark that it got painful to watch.

Sorry, Inertia, I only have this one, not the huge Iron Giant toy: http://ultimateirongiant.co…

You actually could buy the Iron Giant in plush or action figure form
I still kick myself for not buying the (huge) Iron Giant plush at the now-defunct WB Store, but I did buy one of the (awesomely packaged) Iron Giant figures, which came with little figures of Hogarth and the Beatnik, to scale.