Anyone read Billy Bathgate by E L Doctorow? I seem to recall that the movie version was pretty poor, but I enjoyed the book.

Do you read favourite books more than once? If so, then yes.

I'm equally offended that he didn't base the movie on the exact specifics of my life. Although not surprised, since it would be one dull, dull movie.

Tom Lehrer is great.

KFC have the best marketing campaigns. They've just started showing adverts - sorry, airing commercials - in the UK where some 17-year-old goes on about how he never saw himself having a career in food… he then dredges a load of anaemic looking chicken in flour, fries it off and dumps it in a bucket. Naturally, all…

This reminds me of the first time I experienced meta.

What can I say? It was weird at my school.

I don't know what I was thinking. Where is my mind?

Ah, Pixies. I vividly remember the day I bought Doolittle. We'd had our school's annual "Foundation Day", and afterwards a few of us snuck off to get a drink, very much against school rules. That in itself was quite memorable as I wasn't much into doing stuff 'against the rules' back then. (Not like now, when I post…

Snape and Otto, I hear what you're saying. I watched all five seasons back to back on FX (in the UK). As we're technological imbeciles with no way of recording stuff off satellite TV, my flatmate and I had to be in every Monday night at 10pm without fail to watch it. Damn near killed me but worth it in the end…

Yeah, I struggled with that comparison too.

If… I… could… just… move… my… ARM…

Ellie, in the UK we have the Automobile Association. So they're both AA. Thus the joke works particularly well.

Sir Patrick Moore, Sir Martin Rees and Sir Brian of May might well disagree with you. Difficult to do the old astronomy without that phrase.

mbs, that gag works particularly well here in the UK. Breakdown and Recovery Service indeed.

"Nazi Supermen Are Our Superiors"?

I'm a big fan of "Cut Your Hare". Veterinarians rock!

It would appear that if you can't get it on iTunes, it doesn't exist.

Marge: Homer, the plant called. They said if you don't show up tomorrow don't bother showing up on Monday.

Snape, you are so right. Such a shame he (Nicholas Gurewitch) isn't doing them anymore. At least not at the moment.