I was 11, and I just saw some guy up thread was too, but he now has a 9 year old son. Am I really that far behind in my growing-up and being a normal human?

Actually, I think North America makes up the majority of English speakers…There's well over 300 million of us here, vs a total of about 100 million for UK, Oz, NZ and sundry others.

No, I think it was two separate petitions, one to stop Ron Howard, and one to let SouthofHeaven fuck Kevin Smith.

commence bursting out laughing in 3…2…1…

Squinty, you just got me in trouble with my boss for laughing

FIRSTIES!
Oops, this isn't the t-shirt comment section. Sorry Zach.

I think I'll have to buy the Gibson Girl one for my girlfriend. She really fucking likes her Gibson guitar.

shit, I'm old
I didn't need footnotes to understand the Bush reference (or Bushx, as they were known in Canada).

Leto…
I thought his band was Juliette and the Licks or some such…

videos
I don't mind having the videos instead of just audio tracks (my office hasn't blocked youtube because they don't treat us like babies), but could you at least give us a heads up as to which track it is?

I remember a spoof of the AHA certification in the credits to some comedy, potentially Hot Shots or something like that, that said something along the lines of "No animals were harmed in the making of this film. Well, a few people stepped on ants, and a cat got sick, but that's it."
I thought it was hilarious at the…

Random story about Van Damme
When JCVD was making a film in Toronto, years ago, they were shooting at Glendon College, where my grandmother worked for a slightly nuts old academic. They wanted to use his office, he refused, then my grandma convinced him it was ok.

across the pond
You probably don't have the background for it, but there is rich fodder for this feature over in England. The bookstores are awash with shitty "autobiographies" and kiss-and-tells by people who barely qualify as celebrities.

For the last time
Steve, stop trying to make us do your job for you. Fuck web 2.0.

I haven't, but I'm willing to. I'm rather tall myself.

I damaged my monitor when I folded it

um, sorry, I'm usually more coherent than that…

back to the future
I've recently started getting really fascinated by the more mundane details of production design in sci-fi films.
I didn't really give a shit about the robots in I, Robot, but quite liked the rest of the world…although the insane amounts of product placement got on my nerves, it probably helped keep…

Springsteen
I wrote him a fan letter when I was 6 as part of a class project (we all had to write to our favourite famous people).