Now Joey is the largest friend! (Though still not the tallest).

We have to lose that sax solo!

“So you’d probably not be reading this right now if it wasn’t for Lucas.”

Still waiting for the Ke Huy Quan announcement.

I’ve lived in Vietnam for almost 14 years now, and while there’s plenty of French-influenced food (banh mi being the biggest one), and there are indeed loads of taco places here now, the taco places are mostly American, with a couple of Korean-style ones, and, very rarely, a Mexican one. Never seen anywhere doing…

Hong Kong got all the Japanese consoles and software releases as soon as they were released in Japan (or very closely), usually directly imported from Japan. I got all my consoles soon after release when I was living there. 

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

Not only that, but the episode ended with them singing When You Wish Upon a Star, an eerie bit of prescience! 

I just came here to post that. Thank you! I feel like they had “Angry” in the title originally but thought against it. 

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…

My dream of the show where the Chief O’Briens from many alternate universes all converge - Star Trek: I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) - lives on!

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

Werner Herzog

The Rise of Abrams

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

Patrick Stewart doesn’t pronounce Data like that though. He pronounces the second consonant as /t/, not /d/. So while it’s true that he may have changed the way Americans pronounce the first vowel sound, it has not affected how they pronounce the second consonant sound at all.

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…