I would think they would have been happy you were coping so well.

Ah, beat me to it… I should have refreshed.

If I'm not mistaken, didn't Douglas Adams get an "additional material by" credit sometime in the 4th?

One of my most treasured memories of a Cold War childhood is a 5th grade English class in which our teacher— a genuinely cruel person, as I recall— chose on some pretext to explain to all of us that the world could be ended at any moment "just from someone pushing a button."  She ended up talking about it, nuclear…

What?  E. Buzz got banned?  Why on earth?

Now I have to ask, did this just come up organically in conversation?  Like he asked something like, "Hey sir, how would you characterize my life?"  Or was this just in lieu of a tip?

How many times can they push him too far?

On a larger thematic level:

The "Franco Theory" has been thoroughly debunked.

He wasn't exactly impressive in Me and Orson Welles, but I had to allow points for doing the movie in the first place.

You know, the more I hear about this guy, the more I like him.

I guess ultimately also it's a good structure for a commercial horror film— an excuse to cast an array of beautiful starlets as the victims, with an obvious obsession/revenge arc for the mad scientist.  And it makes more sense than switching out somebody's brain with a gorilla's or whatever it was Bela Lugosi was…

the story concerns Howard Vernon’s titular mad doctor attempting to restore his facially scarred daughter to her former gorgeous state. That surgical plan requires the skin of other women—

That sonovabitch could write, couldn't he?

EXT. SALT LAKE CITY - DAY
 
Alvy and Annie walk slowly along past Temple Square.
 
ANNIE: … Alvy it's just ridiculous, you've got this neurotic fixation on this city.  You should get out of it a while, into the mountains, see some nature!
 
ALVY: Yeah, right, I'm going to climb a mountain.  I get irregular breathing…

Satan is correct.

So do male Secretaries of State just not care about their family lives, and balancing them with international diplomacy?  What's wrong with them?

Who actually did read Michener?  I remember a thousand enormous novels whose titles were all place names and (speaking as a guy who's not afraid of long reads) never once felt tempted to pick one up.  Are they good?  Have I been missing out all these years?

That's not too far off the mark.

Hey, just like Gandalf!