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As far as how fast a raven can fly goes, a lot hinges on whether it's a laden or unladen one.

Benjen ex machina. . . .

Every time I see a picture of Steve Bannon, I think of the quote 'If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.'

Yes,it is an awesome opening number. And I love that when the song ends they keep talking in Polish until Brooks wonders aloud why they're doing that.

Don't forget his remake of To Be or Not To Be.

One of the first things I learned, when I got elected to local council, was 'If you wouldn't want it quoted on the front page of the newspaper, don't say it (or put it in an email that could be subject to a Freedom of Information request).'

If you're going to try to claim you were checking out her 'ribs', at least make sure you have a good idea where ribs are located in the human body (hint: they're nowhere near where your hand was in that picture, pal).

I remember hearing some time back that there was going to be a TV version of The Mist, and thought 'I'll have to watch for that.' Imagine my surprise to realise that we're eight episodes in already (what the heck is Spike TV?) and I hadn't heard about it. Doesn't sound as if I've missed much. (Goes back, watches 2007…

Hey, we get the World War III songs we deserve.

'Every great war produces its great hit songs, and after each war we like to gather around the piano or the guitar and sing these songs. We enjoy the songs because they remind us how much we enjoyed the war. Now World War III is almost upon us, as you know, by popular demand, and it occurred to me that if any songs…

Sweet Hereafter is a stunning film, with Ian Holm and Sarah Polley both standouts. An added layer (for me) is that it was filmed in the area of British Columbia I live in (just before I moved here, sadly). While many of the scenes of the school bus driving along and picking up students were filmed on Highway 8 between…

Same here. The Globetrotters played in the venerable Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver (it was the round building with all the zombies in it in the first series of Fear the Walking Dead) in about 1971, when I was eight. My dad took me, and it was huge fun, and still the only pro basketball game I've ever seen.

I was born in 1963, so Campbell's music was a staple for me growing up. 'Wichita Lineman' is damn near perfect.

I'm old enough that I saw Star Wars, E.T., and Raiders when they first came out, and of the three I'd say it was Raiders where I thought 'This isn't a movie, it's an event.'

As a journalist in a small town, one person newsroom who has had to write - enthusiastically - about Pepi the show dog's wonderful recovery after a back injury, Simon McCoy is my new hero.

I didn't watch a lot of TV (still don't, really) and what little I saw of Friends didn't really appeal. And I've always preferred British comedy to American comedy.

1997 was the year I returned to Canada after living in Britain for five years, so a lot of North American pop culture from that year went over my head or didn't have much meaning, because I'd missed the previous five years of it (I've never watched Friends, for example). It was also the year I had my first (and only)…

Oh, I know it wasn't Tyrion; the fellow who pushed Jaime aside was too tall. But thematically, Tyrion saving Jaime would have been a nice touch, since it was Jaime who saved Tyrion and got him out of Westeros.