Multiple Olympic gold medalist Mo Farah is also banned; the Somalia-born Farah, who came to the UK as a child, trains in Oregon but is believed to be out of the U.S. right now. Apparently the State Department has confirmed that anyone with dual citizenship (say UK-Somalia) will be refused entry, despite also being a…

Rick Steves, the PBS travel show guy who lives near Seattle, donates a lot to charities, and he had pledged to give a dollar for every dollar spent on his website on Inauguration Day to the ACLU. Total spending on the day was around $42,000 (eight times the norm), and Steves donated a round $50,000 himself to the…

I liked the line in a Guardian article today saying something to the effect that May was the first foreign leader to meet with Trump only because every other foreign leader thought better of the idea. 'You go first!' 'No, no, no, after you. . . .'

I've listened to it a dozen or so times too, and as you say, it keeps getting better. Warburton can't sing, but he manages to sell the lines in the way that a good actor who isn't a singer often can: with looks and inflection and phrasing rather than vocal ability.

I loved the song at the end of the episode, especially NPH's Olaf; not only can he sing, but everything about him conveyed the Olaf of the books: cold, calculating, menacing. I really like him as Olaf through the series, but wish that, going forward - especially as things get bleaker - Olaf could be more like the Olaf…

No, early 1970s. We didn't get our first colour TV set until 1972 (and it didn't have a remote, either). I don't think we had a TV with a remote control until the early 1980s (and it was tethered to the set by a cable, if I recall correctly).

Back when I watched Mannix the 'remote' was my brother or me going to the TV set to turn the channel.

One of my favourites is Scott Glenn as a motorcycle gang leader in the 1972 TV movie Gargoyles.

And Wilford Brimley.

Finished watching A Series of Unfortunate Events on Netflix last Tuesday, and am now reading the books for the first time (we've had them for years, but my husband read them to our son, not me). I'm halfway through book eight, The Hostile Hospital, and enjoying them immensely (I'm also kind of annoyed that I never got…

Like others here, I find the downstairs stuff incredibly tedious and unnecessary, and we're only two episodes in. There was more than enough real-life drama and intrigue in Victoria's life, without boring subplots about a maid with a Dark Secret, or one who just happens to have a Newport rioter godson about to be…

My favourite BC ministry name is 'Ministry of Small Business and Red Tape Reduction responsible for the Liquor Distribution Branch.'

My favourite line in the movie is 'If we can bring a little joy into your humdrum lives, all our hard work ain't been in vain fer nuthin'." You have to hear it in Lina's best 'trying to sound posh but failing' voice to get the most out of it.

That's funny about you doing a piece about local businesspeople thinking city council doesn't do enough to spur economic development. I'm the editor of our local paper, but I'm also on village council, and on Friday the mayor and I met with a representative from the provincial ministry for Jobs, Tourism, and Skills…

Just finished Vile Village. If I don't have any interruptions I can read one of the books in about two hours.

How they're going to convincingly show the Baudelaires - especially Sunny on her solo trips - going up and down the elevator shaft is going to take some doing.

After watching Netflix's A Series of Unfortunate Events, I'm reading all the books for the first time. My husband read the books to our son when he was younger, so I never got round to them then (although I did see the Jim Carrey film in 2004, so was familiar with the basic plot and the first three books). I'm just…

Even though I'm Canadian, and part of my donation to my 'local' PBS station (KCTS9 in Seattle; home to Rick Steves!) is no longer tax deductible because KCTS has closed its Vancouver office, I still renewed my membership a week or so back, because I had a feeling like a move to defund the CFB was coming. I really,…

It's one of the classic blunders.

Exactly.