It's the blisters, I think.

"Oh that?  Yeah, I call that 'the crab', because it's shaped like a crab, see?"

That's some good glowerin', Mr. DM.

You go into a jazz battle with the artists you have, not the artists you'd like.

Jazz is as good a weapon as any against terror.

Neil Patrick Harris had a theory that most of the actors tapped for presenting don't have a lot of experience doing live performances, and it shows.

I love the Colonel's relief at having another "combat veteran" on the base, and comparing Skinner's Vietnam service to his heroic Gulf War I securing of a Montgomery Ward's.

Thank goodness someone mentioned Leopold.  I assume he wasn't used in later episodes because he had a massive brain aneurysm.

In the sense that most are nasty, brutish and short.

My first DVD purchase was Casablanca.  My friend told me at the time, "the larger your collection, the more shitty movies you'll own".  If only I'd listened.

Oh yuck.

The Village Hat Shop (villagehatshop.com) has a fair selection.

More wars… or better wars?

Nope!

The Contrabulous Fabtraption of Childermass and Vinculus.

"Late again, MIS-ter Pott..um… Norrell?"

A lack of American money is almost always the reason my favorite adaptations helmed by Europeans never get off the ground.

Alan Rickman is old and looks like a melting candle.  He's got the voice and arch manner for the role, but unless you're going to cast him with the aid of a time machine, or creepy motion-capture technology, he's not a good fit.

Simon Prebble, the reader on the audiobook version, does not pronounce it like Jor'El, of Superman fame.  He pronounces it like Orel, of  Moral Orel fame.

Dogs *can* look up!