"Don't forget your stick, George."
"Right, Sir! Wouldn't want to go up against heavy machine-guns without that!

This one was up there with DFW's felo de se for me. I have a huge sad I'm trying compartmentalize until I can really fall apart about it. If Madame G were to go like that I'd be hanging and laying drop cloths and taste-testing shotguns in no time.
But Patton has his daughter and he's too good a Dad to do that.

"Now can we PLEASE finish this turkey?!"

John Lanchester is both a skilled journalist and a talented novelist, and I feel he's been overlooked as both.

I was worried about you, your loved ones and your people. I'm glad to hear you are safe!

[dude, that sounds super-rapey-creepy]

Give us a 1 - 10 rating, please?
I'm at 4, for example.

Because… they've… been in a cage?

On the other hand, there is that. I'll allow it.

That has been an increasingly worrying trend…

Long time, no upvote. I'm sorry about that and feel bad. :-( This is still a great write-up!

Oh, that's not good…

Hobo snacks right out of a Footlocker Bag!

Man, you are deeply, fundamentally unfunny and should just stop trying. It's sad and embarrassing for everyone. Just don't.

Still rereading Richard Miles' Carthage Must Be Destroyed. Hannibal is about to do the big elephant walk at the beginning of the Second Punic war!
Ordered James J. O'Donnell's Pagans: The End of Traditional Religion and the Rise of Christianity and Tim Whitmarsh's Battling The Gods: Atheism In the Ancient World and am…

They are both really great books.

This really is an awesome film, and it has held up so well!

Wah-Whaw!

That song sounds like it was written by a perv who drives a van.

They can have him back. He's defective.