Carnivale. I like Rome, too. But Carnivale first.

Asian marker? I'm talking about a bunch of distant genetic hits in India, which if you're mostly European almost always means Gypsy. I guess you could call that cluster a marker, but that's a confusing way to put it.

I apologize, Fluttergirl, for my ignorance about your particular heritage. But I think you are still underestimating the broadness of Gypsy heritage, I am as or more white-looking than the Travelers, but my DNA test didn't show much from Ireland. Rather from the Balkans to Scandinavia. And to America. It's all very…

You're not being fair, if you're even for real. Most Gypsy or Roma groups have been traced from India, genetically and by language. They're now different in many ways - by, religion and language especially. You're claiming to know what's really Gypsy, just from you're own group? That''s real ignorance.

I'm an American adoptee who learned two years ago that I'm almost certainly part Roma from DNA tests. I'm a centrist in my own mind, but really liberal in the current climate in the U.S. I absolutely support the law of the land taking precedence over tribal tradition, where the tribal tradition limits human rights. …

Hey. Jealousy.

People are all over the place with literature and classical music and beyond now. Sticking with the original topic within pop culture, I would start with Bessie Smith. Blues great, once called "The Empress of the Blues." Just hype. But she was great, and influenced everyone who came after. 41 when she died in a…

Gilda Radner was mentioned? I must have missed that. Awesome.

No female artists in the whole thread
One must conclude that they were all well shut of, and had said all they unnaturally spoke to say.

…and by the factor of sexual attractiveness.

In a little casting thread on an earlier piece I suggested William H. Macy, who I still think would be a good choice, but then someone said Burt Reynolds. I said yes if he'd do it with white hair. It's better physical casting - he's had the kind of cosmetic surgery, or artificial whatever, referred to in the book. …

Well, as Donald Barthemle put it "Bad sci-fi tv is better than no sci-fi tv."

I think the ending showed that the show wasn't sci-fi at heart. It wasn't sci-fi people. People who watch space shows have enough general feel for gravity to intuit that between the earth and the moon is a very bad parking space for an earth-sized planet.

No, where? Did anyone notice that Simon was shot in the leg and turniqueted, then walking around not shot and turniqueted?

Despite the sloppiness (see the mind-wipe topic above) I am intrigued by Castiel as the New God. But that will probably turn out to be less interesting than it seems now.

Boys, no reason to have conflict. You'll both dissolve from your own natural wrongness enzymes shortly.

Monsignor Martinez was considered for a spin-off. Send whatever ballistic residues you feel are appropriate to those responsible for its death.

That's got to be left open, or else be something like "42".

I didn't have to be mean.

You are both stupid. Everyone goes through this constantly. It's a process, nothing to be ashamed of. Real reading comprehension takes a long time. You are behind me in the process. I knowwhat penultimate means, in general, and what it means in this context is the step before suicide. You will have to try harder…