It got me pretty spot on. It said I was 45, and I’m turning 45 in less than a month.

Probably only works for English people though. Not the Scots or Welsh. (Just listened to it and yes. That’s an English thing, from English people who think the two mean the same thing.)

Since you started writing for The Takeout, it was always clear that you are a brilliant writer, but now that memoir is right at the top of my reading list!

Taxis are nowhere near as bad here as in Bangkok. The occasional dickish driver now and again, but generally fine among the main taxi companies (in Saigon, at least - I don’t spend much time in other parts of the country). No Uber or Lyft here, though we have Grab (which bought out Uber over here a while back). Most…

You all need to check out the Big Fat Quiz of the Year just for Charles Dance’s renditions of trashy books!

“They had style, they had food, they were grilling in the nude...”

This comment was a fantastic read. Thank you! 

It’s a thing in Phnom Penh too. One of my friends had a different strategy - get the bar staff to agree to different rules: put the grid flat on the surface and open up the bottom, thus allowing either opponent to put the disc anywhere in the column as long as it’s not blocked already. Makes it a different game, but…

Snake is delicious. About halfway between chicken and tuna. 

Oh, a horse is a horse. 

My main thought is that now we’ve seen two of the three heads of the dragon with their riders. Did the prophecy ever say that the three heads would be working together? (or that Bran might not eventually warg into one of them?)

And don't forget Tim Choate.

“So what’s it to be, Captain America? Civil War?”
“Who’re you trying to find, Captain America? The Winter Soldier?”
“What are you supposed to be, Captain America? The First Avenger?”

Does that make Keith Richards a Ninja? Or is McCartney the Ninja? I'm so confused now.

Nice Dream. Not the most obvious one, but it presents such a beautiful idea, but it's all a complete lie…

I went the other way on the wind song. I didn't really like it during the first appearance, but appreciated it more each time it appeared - I found the repetition itself amusing (and of course it had a great culmination point).

I quite liked the sequel, Keyboard 2: Dvorak's Revenge. It was a bit slow and confusing to begin with, but it really picked up towards the end.