I don't see him as asexual either. He's not as highly sexed as, say, Riker or Geordie, but I see him more as being tightly self controlled and very cerebral. I could see him in a romance that was based as much on intellectual attraction as physical, and built slowly as they got to know each other. But it would take…

Has there ever been a Dr Seuss video adaptation other than How The Grinch Stole Christmas  that didn't both suck and blow?

That's one of those songs that is lovely when sung very well. But 99% percent of the people who sing it do it worse than they think they do.

I actually liked Majora's Mask more than OOT. It got rid of two annoyances from OOT - the amount of time  you spent running from place to place early in the game, and the irritating little fairy who kept screaming in your ear. The side quests were great - much more involved than OOT, and I liked the sense of time that…

Journey's End always seemed to me like Wesley in an extended sulk because people have stopped going on about how special he is.

I eventually realized that Niven is basically a crappy novel writer. His strength is playing with quick ideas - showing us views of futuristic societies or tech, alien species, or a self-contained mystery.  It shows up best at novella length or shorter, and  particularly in his linked short stories.

I can get down to six…

Hmmm, in no particular order

With a gene pool and society that small, they'd die out no matter what happened. 

Yeah. I grew up in a town of about 40,000 people. We had a regional library that was decent (although it could take quite a while to get popular or out of town books), two mall bookstores, and a single independent bookstore that had an excellent children's and local section but little else. If you wanted something…

I just can't see them as anything but a horribly dysfunctional couple, which would be fine for an episode or two, but a real drag over a series.

You can't miss it. It takes over a day to drive across, you can't find a motel when you need one, and it's populated entirely by mosquitos the size of small chickens and swarms of carnivorous flies.

The problem I ran into with the Valdemar series was not the historical backstories, but more the general quality of writing and plotting, and I found it to be a general issue with the author, over all of her books. Basically, the flaws in her writing got to the point where they overwhelmed the strengths - too much…

I've seen linked trilogies work well for a compromise between episodic and just plain epic. That way you get some sort of resolution every few books, but a sprawling on going series with the fun of fleshing out a large world and lots of characters and history.

I think the series worked when it was a light-hearted, rather fluffy parody of classical fantasy themes, crossed with Road movies. When he tried to make it more thoughtful, and shifted to multi-character viewpoints, it just didn't have enough depth to support it.

Because they went to the large Magellanic cloud? Or are you just prejudiced against dwarfs?

Mind you, I once bought an album of traditional Christmas Carols (sung by a church choir) on iTunes that was tagged "Explicit". If you mention the words God or Jesus, it must be swearing, right?

Apparently, Foreigners Suck

If Homer had been spending all his time and effort and the family's savings promoting the career of a woman he was contemplating having an affair with, yeah, that would make him pretty unsympathetic.

I think the sadness in Marge's situation is not so much the role of mother and housewife itself - that's a role that can be fulfilling and satisfying to many people.