Easter is coming. Perhaps Sean can go back to the one job he was decent at — being the White House Easter Bunny,

No mention of Leoncavallo's 1892 opera Pagliacci about a murderous clown?

Golf didn't get exciting until Bernard Darwin (Charles' grandson) got into it. No, I lied. It never got exciting.

Except I doubt that Walter was ever really "good" even before he started being a murderer and druglord.

Or the obvious Warren Buffett stand-in in the second season of the US House of Cards.

It totally does. Until recently in America, if you didn't live in a single family house with a big yard somewhere out in the suburbs, the implication was that you were impoverished. The situation today is changing somewhat, with a lot of row houses (and even condominiums) in cities going for more than a lot of…

Dude. You should become a horror writer. Like H.P. Lovecraft. Don't be so racist as he was, though.

You could say that about The Godfather as well. Some really great movies came out of airport novels.

"I don't know why Shakespeare is so revered. All he did was string together some well known quotations." — Mark Twain.

I don't think that is crazy at all. Kubrick knew sets well enough to have a consistent topology if he wanted to. He clearly didn't in The Shining.

No he wasn't. And we know what happens when King gets to control a movie. We get Maximum Overdrive. Although hypocritically, I kind of like it, as stupid as it is, for the line "But we made you!" — it really summarizes the whole reason why The Terminator and similar movies work. It's the betrayal.

Well, Larry Bird really was more of an 80s figure — his playing career was over in 1992 and geeks (GenX ones anyway) know him from the famous "Dr. J and Larry Bird Go One on One" computer game from 1983. The California Raisins were likewise an 80s thing, although they were still popular in the 90s. Even the New Kids…

And with Clarence Thomas you have all three Black Republicans that exist.

This reminds me of Alberto Manguel and Gianni Guadalupi's "Dictionary of Imaginary Places" which is an encyclopedia of various cities and countries mentioned in literature. I used to read that cover to cover when I was a kid. Of course that was before Wikipedia and these days most well known fictional places have…

That's actually a real debate (well, not about toggles), but whether "folk art" (which often consists of making many similar copies of baskets, or pots, or whatever) is really art.

We all know Renaissance master painters had workshops that did most of the actual work, and even today scientists have teams of grad students and postdocs, so why not writers?

The fact that Canada is more consumer friendly than the US is not a surprise. I'm an American who lived in Canada in late 1990s and had broadband (even if only DSL) several years before any of my American friends did,

Although K.C. Munchkin was probably the best Pac-man style game on any early console.

At least with Comcast (one of the two major cable providers in the US), yes. It seems basically impossible to get "just Internet" from them. Looking into the fiber option others mentioned, it appears that Verizon (a cellphone provider here) can provide that assuming your house/apartment building is wired for that.

No, but I loved the original arcade "Wizard of Wor" — I liked how you could play with a friend and either fight against them by shooting them or work together to fight the monsters. And that when playing alone, the game had an AI player shooting monsters (and you) to take the part of the second player. Pretty…