Exactly. I'm not completely into the theories that there's something in the crypts, but:

There's Bernie Mac. Then, about ten rungs down the ladder, there's Cedric the Entertainer. Then it's a three hundred foot drop, where Steve Harvey's body has landed on top of DL Hughley's, but it wasn't enough of a cushion for him to survive the fall.

Same goes for Silver on the Tree in Susan Cooper's Dark is Rising series, come to think of it. Clearly I had a thing for the final volumes of slightly mournful children's books about fighting the vaguely defined forces of darkness. Especially when there's a legendary Welsh/Arthurian connection (as my pseudonym might…

Huh - I was so hyped to discover Many Waters and didn't like it, so I just cut my appreciation off at the original trilogy. May need to reconsider …

Yes, Many Waters. She wrote it a number of years after finishing the original trilogy, and it was the only one of the later additions I read.

A Swiftly Tilting Planet was my favorite in the series, the only one I read many many times, but they were all great.

strictly speaking, in the Star Trek world, you'd only be doing that if you wanted to be working at all, and presumably were finding some kind of fulfillment in doing the labor (unless you were in Starfleet, in which case, sorry, dude, but you did sign up for that too)

I'll note that at least so far, several of those things aren't true in the books/unlikely to be true in the books. (I bet the Tyrell succession is going to be fine, though the Tyrells are going to have some different problems.) Also in the books, some of these houses have distant but clearly valid claimants; in the…

Oh, Jackson definitely also took credits that weren't deserved (and as you say, he wasn't alone in this!*), and may have done so a lot. I just wanted to reaffirm that he wasn't only strongarming his way into credit for a creative process he hadn't contributed to.

As I posted just above, plenty of people who worked on those classic records say Jackson really was involved in the songwriting process.

Recently I watched a long interview thing with Greg Phillinganes, a legendary session keyboardist and sideman whose most notable credits include working extensively with Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson.

Unless this has been re-assessed, I believe the final national polling was about as inaccurate as the polling in 2012, it just happened that the error swung in the other direction. Certain state polls had more issues. Throwing up your hands and saying "I no longer believe in a well understood if imperfect science…

Nobody. The Seven Kingdoms go back to being (probably more than) seven kingdoms, with the survivors of the young generation of heroes forging alliances, but nobody in control of the entire continent. I have no idea if this is what they're going to do on the show, but in the books, George "why didn't Tolkien tell us…

Either you misunderstood him or I misunderstand you, but 90s with humidity in the 90s isn't 105 with humidity in the 90s.

I take the article as a kind of corrective - scientists are of course dealing with ranges of probabilities, but the discussions we get on this issue are rarely if ever about the real worst case scenarios; I took the article as painting a picture of what would happen if most of the things that had the potential to be…

There will be a questionnaire on Simpsons quotes and AV Club in-jokes.

I keep seeing mention of impending Kinja-pocalypse, but I never saw an actual announcement. Is AVClub going to have the grays too? Am I going to have to comment my way out of the grays? Can I just point to my comment/like ratio and get grandfathered in?

There's a sexist element to some of the Deadspin commentariat, and there's a high tolerance for very dark jokes there, but looking at the generic non-sports-focused commentary I can't help but come away feeling like the average frequent Deadspin commenter is just a chiller person than his/her Jezebel counterpart. I…

I haven't seen it in years and years, so I have no insights based on a careful viewing, but my resistance to the "Deckard is a replicant" thing basically comes down to it being such a pat "twisty" thing, like the world's most obvious cherry on top of a sundae. So I like the more "straightforward" reading, because in…

The ones I saw were on Jezebel, so … no.