Take it from an Englander: you soon get tired of Stephen Fry.

Another Brit I really should apologise for: sorry.

Let's smoke 'im out.

He does it a lot. It's not funny, then it is funny, then it won't be funny again.

Billy Connolly had a line about going to an upscale party and 'feeling about as welcome as a fart in a spacesuit'. Meaning, the fart is trapped in with you in your own little beefy ecosystem.
He said this on British TV in the 70s. Glad you've caught up with us.

Sat. They've split.

Don't worry about paying too much attention - you'll want to read it again anyway. I speak as a fellow three-timer through Infinite Jest.

See also: Jaws, The Exorcist.

It's looking that way. 'Red Dragon' has some of the best dialogue I've read in ages.

Maybe the first four are decent, kind of, because of the long gaps between writing them. And the last three aren't so very decent because they were all written in 18 months, in case he died.

'Weird' at the end is fine; 'shit' is not.

'Pygmy' by Palahniuk. About halfway through, and extremely funny so far. Can he maintain it, I wonder.
Also, 'Hannibal Rising' by yer man Harris. After 20 years of snobbery, I finally reread 'Red Dragon' earlier this year, and was amazed by how good it was. So I've worked my way through the rest of the Lecter books in…

There's a great sense of stillness and quiet in this film, not to get too arty about it, that I think Springsteen captures perfectly in the songs on Nebraska. Still on the surface, rolling with despair underneath. Beautiful, both of them.

I enjoy him shooting a football he considers 'excess baggage' too.

In the UK we started a petition for you to keep the oily turd.

Let me just take a second to apologise unreservedly for Piers Morgan and Simon Cowell. We think they're odious twats as well, and hope that Damian Lewis and Dominic West make up for them.

He orked hard for it.

He gets a muttered 'Well done, that man,' and no more.

Congratulations from England.

'Rain' is pretty damn good drumming, isn't it? He's no Bonham, I'll grant you that, but he powers that song along just right.