I'm reading one of his major prequel books, Forge of Darkness, on the dissolution of the Tiste as a united people. It's pretty great thus far - mostly for more time with the Jaghut.

From what I know of the post-structuralists and of the general rhetorical dynamics of Godwinning I'm pretty skeptical.

Donna reads a lot, or so it seems to me.

He and fucking Bumblebee from the Bay movies are in a support group together. They both leave feeling like the other guy is worse off.

Further, the Rock Bottom Remainders were the subject of a pretty good joke on Happy Endings.

He's been a guest star and he and Matt Groening are in a band together.

I would be shocked unto illiteracy (the text equivalent, I assume, of shocked into silence) if the Simpsons hadn't already called out they were repeating plots by the time South Park pointed it out.

I'd think it would have to be a secondary sex characteristic - so probably beardoes?

Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.

Soooo… there's a character named Henry Lime, written by an author who's a noted fan of '40s espionage and we aren't calling out the 'potential' Third Man connection?

She's the Jerry.

No, not the Nazca lines. The lesser known but equally enigmatic Nazca exotica collections.

I also have some additional respect for the guy in that most of the people I know who work in American archaeology accept the consensus with the caveat - It's true, but it's also true that there is some difficult to explain weirdness.

Seriously, the local monks better start packing. Those vikings aren't here to trade or gaze admiringly at the illuminations/literacy.

It's the content of your why, not the fact of your why, that have provoked this reaction.

Yeah, either she's a cold killer or she's such a perfect puppet for the Queen of Thorns cold killer that it's pretty much indistinguishable.

There's a lot of historical attestation to Scandinavian pagans having real problems with Christ as false, but it's by no means universal. And it may be as much 'False' in the 'doesn't keep faith with his people' sense as the 'isn't the right answer on this quiz' sense.

Most of what I know is from later in the period, but Scandinavian women did pretty well. I mean, the sexes are pretty intertwined. A dude with a low status wife isn't going anywhere and a lady who can't hold court or who has a crap husband is in a similar fix, but it's nothing like Renaissance women and the weird…

Finding a T_former_AD rant is such a magical experience. I can only imagine that literally stumbling across such a thing - carved into a slate or some menhir - as I traipsed through my garden would be more akin to encountering a unicorn.

That is completely awful.