This is clearly all leading up to "Whore Wars." Tell me you wouldn't watch that.

Any chance we're going to get a Gaga Thanksgiving review? I'm curious.

And by "those reviews" I assume you mean Frakes and Sirtis' comments.

I don't think it's good, per se, but I do find it amusingly bizarre, especially in the thought that this (barely) appeared on network TV in 1969. Worth watching once.

Well, it was several years before Monty Python.

Though to be fair, the idea of introns as "junk DNA" with no effect on the organism has pretty much been discarded since this episode was written.

His name was Fortunato. He was a half-Black/half-Asian pimp.

I've picked up a couple of the recent novels, and they've been pretty good - mostly focusing on newer characters, and working a lot of it around a Reality TV show. They've also softened the Joker Prejudice angle a lot- as you might expect by now there's a good bit of "Joker Chic" to counteract the Fear and Loathing.

Yeah, I'm guessing no Fortunato, except maybe as a background character with most of his story implied. Hell, even Dr. Tachyon is probably going to have to be watered down.

Harlan Ellison would like to have written something worth reading since 1975.

If you're a Douglas Adams fan, start at the beginning. The first several books read very much like a Fantasy answer to Adams, but Pratchett just kept getting better and better.

BORG BORG BORG!

Will you adopt me? Or at least let me play with your group for a pick-up game?

Also, look for Julia's story from The Magician King to run in parallel with the Brakebills storyline, with lots more interaction between the High Magic world and Street Magic world than we saw in the books; perhaps Julia turning into a full-fledged antagonist, trying to bring down Brakebills from the outside.

I like to imagine that Mike is Frank McPike. At some point he was betrayed by his superiors, said "Fuck it" and went over to the dark side to keep up with his alimony payments. 15 years later, he's The Chicken Man's enforcer and chief of security.

I always thought that if this show had come along a few years later, it's Internet fandom would have been huge (and insufferable.)

Where do I get my "George Lucas Raped my Late 20s" t-shirt?

"He's got Marty Feldman eyes…"

I don't always hide in a star's corona, but when I do, I prefer metaphasic shielding.

In Stephen King's Firestarter, the main characters used it to describe their abilities, which included mind control, telekinesis and pyrokinesis.