Though it is not a Simpsons reference, I confess to doing the same sort of thing with "fragile": "fruh-JEE-lay—huh. Must be Italian."

"You see that? It's ok! HE SAW IT ON THE TELEVISION" *starts singing "O I'm-A Gonna Kill My Family With An Axe" under his breath*

Do you mean that Danny's and (later) Wendy's visions are in Jack's head? I hadn't thought of that.

Yeah the Polish choir chanting with steam hissing in "Utrenja" (with clacking sounds for the scares) is pure madness. A friend of mine gave me his vinyl copy of the soundtrack, and it's not something I listen to a lot.

If you look closely at the fangs of bearman, you'll see that blowing would be a bad idea. Also, he has no chin inside the suit—there is no end to his face. Those two things (and maybe I'll throw in the eyes) make it a really creepy image, and one that is best avoided.

I remember going to a birthday party in grade 2 and they showed the Disney movie "The Watcher in the Woods"—the girl with the blindfold chanting in mirrors is a goddamn creepy image. *shudders*

The article that Uphadhyaya linked says "The Liburd character is separate and different from Van Houten’s major recurring character". *adds skull beside Uphadhyaya's name*

I look forward to watching her Jaeger subtly trip an enormous, blue-acid-spewing Wilfred Brimley kaiju. "Blue acid: it's the right thing to do."

Nice. Re Dan Caffrey's write-up above, I would take Daniel Plainview's description of Paul's success with a grain of salt, as Daniel may be just inventing Paul's prosperous little oil concern as a way of kicking Ely while he's down.

I'm surprised he has any voice left—he was pretty croaky even when he recorded "The Gambler", 37 years ago.

He picked a fine time to leave us, Eat Up Martha.

Balls! I'll drink this bottle of sour Dornish and run a mile!

the "rafting" of sea otters is very cute (where they hold hands and float together), but do not, repeat DO NOT look up the mating habits of some male sea otters. *whispers* look it up

[consults Robert's Rules of Otter] Mr. Squeaker, I move that that last pun be stricken from the record and request that we adjourn to the pond.

I'm not out of otter!—YOU'RE out of otter! The whole freaking SYSTEM is out of otter!

*hurls river otter hard against wall* by gum, he's right!

Point of otter: are we talking sea otter or river otter?

I'm not happy, internet, and I haven't been happy for a long time! *whispering in billy's ear* huh? this was posted in newswire?

Congrats on the condo, Dik.

Fallon is absolutely unwatchable. He's like a puppy with a microphone, pawing happily at his guests and shitting in my brain.