Fantastic news! For a fantastic franchise!

Fantastic news.

Rob Bricken is the Deputy Editor of io9. He is not allowed to carry a badge or a gun.

Here were my observations on the dude from “The Library”:

I am still (well, I think it’s been almost a year now) relatively new to the ODeck, so I’m not sure if I’d get in trouble.

(I got kinda’d halfway through my post!)

This is a great review. I hope you share it on ODeck, unless it breaks some rule, but even then, I think your review is its own, excellent beast, and the peeps there will want to read it too.

Rob, sometimes you and I disagree and sometimes we agree. Although we have different takes, we finally agree on a lot of it.

Applying fire to my drink burns off some of the alcohol.

Warner Brothers removed the video. You might want to update the piece?

Thank you. People took my comments about age completely out of context (in order to attack me in a number of creative ways).

Thank you. So much.

Thank you for bringing something substantial, thoughtful, and critical to the dialectic. You wrote something well-thought-out and provided helpful links to the topic.

the co-moderator of the conference said he believed Talese’s understanding of the question was whether he was inspired by any female journalists when he was cutting his teeth in the industry in the ‘50's and ‘60's—as opposed to whether he has ever been inspired by women writers.

I’m sure that you are okay, and you are indeed talented, but you’re not publishing books on the national and international level of Gay Talese, Tom Wolfe, or Hunter S. Thompson.

He’s an 84 year old white man whose heyday was the 1960's.

Tivo had a really good running-gag prank full of great one-liners that I didn’t notice until tonight:

Due to internet, April Fool’s Day has made me tired and paranoid. I imagine you are now going back to yelling at those punk kids on your lawn.

I’m fairly certain that soccer in Europe is what Americans call football. So, to use British terminology, he’s probably just some punter.

I was thinking we were going to see short shorts: