"Works" is a singularly appropriate word for a Jesus & Mary Chain thread.

Hello, Opiate Abuse! Daddy's home with a new soundtrack! ;-)

I'm trying to get my head round it.

I got both series of Frisky Dingo for my birthday! They should come in from Amazon tomorrow!

Pool's unattractive cousin with a lazy eye.

A very real problem during the Battle of the Atlantic.

"Zepplin rrruuullleesss…."

Seriously, are we not doing "Phrasing" anymore?

Syracuse Snow Removal.

Thanks for the Krebs book recommendation! I just added it to my Amazon wish list. I'm re-reading Nicholas Ostler's Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World, which you might be interested in.

The Lancaster one is closer to the Hemingway story, but I enjoy the Lee Marvin one, too. Reagan gets shot (by a competent professional)! What's not to like? ;-)

The Quicksilver character is a uniquely slapable Eurotrash hipster douchebag. He's the sort of guy you'd like to clothesline right off of his Vespa (and you know he's the kind of fucker who would own a Vespa) and put the boot to when he was down. I realize this is not a rational reaction.

Too damned many character threads.

I watched it last night. Way too many things happening at the same time from beginning to end. It doesn't slow down enough to let a narrative cohere, it just steamrollers you with constant action. I didn't hate it, but it left me feeling overstimulated and numb.
I'm going to watch Fury Road today to see action done…

American Beauty was and is a wildly overrated, self indulgent piece of shit and I hate it with a violent passion.

I wonder if several of the voters had spent time in a Turkish prison.

Mr. Lucas had it tucked under his wattle for a rainy day?

I like you. You're an asshole. ;-)

I thought it went "a well?"

You need to drop that E in the middle of your handle, dude.