The Johnny Mathis hit “Wonderful! Wonderful!” never sounds the same after you’ve seen the X-Files episode “Home”.

Currencies don’t work the way you seem to think they do.

Angel does not approve.

I’d say the unique quality of Watership Down is that the rabbits are not anthropomorphized — certainly not conventionally so. They may talk to one another, but they remain rabbits; their natures, concerns, desires, stories, and vocabulary are all rabbity.

It’s as much the most haunted house as any other house is.

I don’t know what GRRM thinks “leche” is.

“Racism is rampant in Ireland,” says an American. Good stuff.

Things change.

As of right now, I have no idea, but I’m pretty confident that he has not acted out of pure loyalty to Cersei, so it stands to reason she won’t be too happy when she finds out what his true motivations were.

Cersei returns a gift ... she has The Zombie Mountain kill Qyburn?

Watch how totally OK and alert he is when it comes to vote for the Senate’s disastrous healthcare bill.

it almost feels like Scott is apologizing to fans for that film

Is that the same Marie Brennan as the Lady Trent series? 🐉

I did not think much of them. The first was OK, reminiscent of How Green Was My Valley, in a weird way. But by half-way through the third book I realized I wasn’t enjoying it at all and I had grown to truly loathe all of the characters if I cared about them in any way at all.

“rare but not uncommon”

Anyone can talk to animals. I do it all the time.

I searched through for any sort of reference to it before posting, and didn’t want to be too “well, actually” about it, but, yes, thought it was worth a mention.

The year was significant: they weren’t just arbitrarily speculating about what the glorious Communist future would be like, they were Communistically thinking about what the Glorious Centenary of the Communist Revolution would be like.

This is the one true Commodore 64:

TIGHAR’s purpose is to promulgate wacky theories about Earhart. It’s what they do. It’s like when someone finds “evidence” of Bigfoot and WHOA AMAZING it was the Bigfoot Is Out There Really Club who found it what are the chances.