I'd say that the University
and the concept of magic in the book owe a lot more to Earthsea than Harry Potter, and LeGuin's idea of Taoism partly forms the Adem, as your martial arts experts. But she would never have written the Adem, or the Felurian. Rothfuss deserves the credit for the worldbuilding, which can't…

The mention of Degrassi gave me a better idea. Leave the Chinese as the invaders and move the invasion to Canada. The Chinese won't know the difference, and the cast are already dressed as Canadians.

Yes. He's a terrific action star, but the accent. I guess it didn't matter when he was supposed to be an English NASCAR driver. That could happen. But if he's trying to be a New Yorker. That might not work.

You're right, I read it wrong. Still not very expensive, unless it buys nothing.

It's a bit less than $2 million per episode. That is not expensive by current hour drama standards. But if it flops and doesn't draw new subscribers, it is a lot for nothing.

I will describe myself as a nerd sometimes, if it seems appropriate, but in terms of alcoholic beverages, I have been in middle age socially pressured into drinking so many horrible European ones that it would be laughable to describe myself as anything other than a whore. Have you tried keeping down multiple shots…

I meant the Jameson. I don't like Bourbon. It's too sweet for me.

Order it on the rocks, or with a draft of dark beer.

Yeah, scotch is harsh. Jameson is mellow Irish whiskey that most decent bars have.

Maybe we don't know what pterodactyls sound like, but we know what hairdressers pissing on each other via Charlie Sheen's lawyer sound like. That should be enough.

He likes bugs.

Not necessarily. Everyone seems be assuming that this is the end of the period of extra-shakiness of the Ring of Fire. Why? It could keep going, and this movie's offer of personified forces of destruction to fight could become very appealing. If, in the mean time, California tumbles into the sea, you will miss, at…

They say they were just looking for previously legal weapons that he can't have because of his wif'e's restraining order. Why were they looking in the bushes around the pool, though?

This just in, local news reports LAPD have raided Sheen's house
No word on why yet. The possibilities seem … numerous if not endless.

It seems his name is spelled Cohen, Etan Cohen
Still too easily confused with Ethan Coen.

Innocent until proven guilty, people.

Kurtz was doomed soon. Brando's end wasn't happy. Brando was the best actor of his generation. But he stopped working decades before he died. He expressed Adonis genes far hotter than any Sheen/Estevez could hope for, but he looked like a floater at the end. Either way, terminus. Is there any positive slant to…

Hmm. I was thinking more about old, fat, bald Marlon Brando Kurtz.

The fixation on Apocalypse Now continues
Did he cast himself as Kurtz before?

It''s not a pajama top, look at the buttons. Nor is it a vintage '70's unforgivable shirt. The cuffs would be like that but the collar would be wider. Someone made that more recently on purpose. I'm not familiar with the author's work, and I'm ok with it for now.