Zelazny said that the character of Hell Tanner was inspired after reading Hunter S. Thompson's Hells Angels. That's pretty cool.

@Captain Terror: You're right for the most part, but the non-Felix part includes the gut-wrenching section "Puppy in the Well," which does an amazing job of capturing the brutal despair of Felix's war experience (the fucker just needs to die already and put us out of this misery!).

Markie Post had a guest appearence as one of Diane's friends. Diane insisted that Sam get close to her, and when they hit it off, she became crazily jealous.
Typical sitcom fare, but it was a decent enough episode, just for Diane bellowing out, "DINNERTIME!" if nothing else.

Robert Anton Wilson also auctioned off all his stuff, in order to pay medical bills, right before he died.
I fear that Hanger-On and Shitty Screenwriter are onto something.

That movie sounded like a horrible idea, but Smigel was entertaining as hell while describing it. I'm willing to believe that he's a complete prick, but he gave a great interview.

Can we talk boardgame vs book vs film?
I found that the boardgame was too unbalanced, favoring the Terrans. The Arachnids had to hope for the marines to stumble over one of their buried nukes for the game to be competative, and the Arachnids should have been given more units. They tried to balance it by making a…

I can still recall old Mister Barnslow getting out every morning and nailing a fresh load of tadpoles to the old board of his. Then he'd spin it round and round, like a wheel of fortune, and no matter where it stopped he'd yell out, "Tadpoles! Tadpoles is a winner!" We all thought he was crazy. But then we had some…

@Lincolns Revenge: LOL! Brilliantly profound and succinct. Look on the bright side, you'll be able to scoop some of them up in a few years after their self-esteem has been wrecked by a bad marriage/divorce.
In the future we all make acceptable second husbands.

Enjoy: http://www.avclub.com/artic…

I heard he was a wizard.
I thought wizards were capable of artificially extending their lives?

Noooooo!!!!!
I have so many unasked questions. Who will I turn to now?

Ooh, Ooh, Dr. Steve!
I have a question!
Every time I see little black flecks of stuff in my tuna or oatmeal or something, I immediately think, "cockroach pieces."
I eat the stuff anyway.
Is that wrong?

I found the link! (for the 2 of you that still might be around)

Does anyone remember when Reiser was on Letterman after Aliens came out? Letterman "ambushed" Reiser with an unexpected Signourey Weaver. Apparently, they were romantically linked during the movie but had a falling out because Paul didn't think that his character was an evil dick. Letterman ended the uncomfortable…

Sir Oinks, he's referring to Frank from Donnie Darko.

Hmm… I had always heard that the term came from the propensity for anti-union workers to wear red bandanas around their necks.

How could we forget about the Dark Lord of the Sith, Rupert Murdoch?

annnd… the Wiggles, Wags the dog, and Captain Featherpoof.

Xochi and DPA, I cherished that sketch, and loved how the Proustometer would move imperceptibly.

1971
I remember our old fart of a principal got on the loud speaker and announced that he normally doesn't like to interrupt classes, but that the rocket-ship, Challenger had just exploded. What the fuck was he talking about? Rocket-ship? Then the enormity of the situation struck me.