My teenage daughter calls dogs "doge".  Like the Doge of Venice, I think.  I don't think even she knows why.

My mother is watching Game of Thrones and enjoying it, which I find bizarre.

My good old dog has gone lame.  It is the second time it's happened - last month he just lost control of his back end and couldn't stand up, which quickly spiralled into a general ataxia.  He was walking near normal in about a week.  Yesterday it happened again, this time worse - definitely a vestibular issue, he…

Book:  Godel, Escher, Bach's mix of logic, philosophy and stupid puns is probably the book that most reflects me.

Can't recall, it was a long time ago.  But I liked that the reviews seemed to be written by grownups and that the mean age of the commentors is substantially higher than twelve.

"Mr. Sparkle"

I'm mid-fourties, now regretting that I took the road less travelled and became an "entrepreneur".  Twenty years of ridiculously hard work with little to show for it.

Cream's "White Room" is now only ever played on montages of hippies in documentaries about the 60s.

I guess ignorance *really is* bliss then.  Good to know.

I share a birthday with Tom Cruise, Lisa Simpson, Franz Kafka, and most importantly Kurtwood Smith.

@avclub-b85d65c39e12a5515c19fd72b6f48199:disqus It was a "wide stance", nothing more.

Sound's like you've got your life worked out already.  Congratulations!

@avclub-1982161d0fe636d1caabd47a2ac23e12:disqus My mother still jokes about my sister recommending A Clockwork Orange and saying it wasn't "too violent".

Man, whenever I see a mention of the TV show Eastbound and Down I get that song stuck in my head.

There is more to them, yes, enough to make them an easy read and not completely boring, but while it has some interesting things to say about class and gender and politics (and other things) it also has some troubling aspects too.  Off the top of my head, in Barrayar, which I just finished, Miles has a prisoner…

Yeah, you won the weekend.  Congratulations.

Get a suede jacket with tassels and bedazzle a "Sons of Anarchy" logo on the back.  That will confuse people.

I can't picture Walter Mittly without Danny Kaye.  And I loved the story, I was a big Thurber fan.

The idea of my mother watching Mulholland Dr. just boggles my mind.

Faeculs was a Estonian film made in the early 70s hoping to cash in on the popularity of Swedish "educational" films of the time.  It never found distribution because of the, let us say, limited market appeal of the subject matter, but a surviving print dumped on VHS in the mid-80s sold well under the title "Cave Men…