You are a monster.

Maybe Grant Hill, the non-Wachowski producer of Jupiter Ascending, can hold an intervention.

I find his sci-fi stuff challenging. Not in a good way.

Neither that cast nor that director bodes well.

The later novels are amazingly acerbic, but I'm of the opinion that The Long Goodbye maybe needed one more pass by Chandler or his editor to really gel. His plotting was always spotty, as you know, but The Little Sister just works on a level that The Long Goodbye doesn't. That said, maybe don't bother with Playback.…

Well, it's coming on Christmas, so of course I busted out the Black Lizard Big Book of Ghost Stories. Some of us remember the real meaning of the season: the winter solstice is when the wall between this world and the next is thinnest and the spirits of the departed walk among us.

No, it's from a short story of the same name by MR James. It's a delightful little chiller by the master of the classic ghost story.

That's the one I was looking for.

Now I am become Death, board-nailer of worlds.

Oh Golly!

While I would love to see a TV version of the ultimate battle of good and evil between all of Andy Daly's characters, I would settle for seeing Gil and Golly.

This is the year I started reading Thomas Ligotti after I found Penguin's edition of Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe in a bookstore (because Amazon really is cheating when you're on the hunt). I'm liking it so far. Not my favorite weird author, but he's good.

So Rey and Kylo are Jenna and the other one?

I wonder when the Steven Spielberg-backed walkie-talkie shopping network will launch.

I stopped watching a few weeks ago. Did anything come of the entire 8th grade class of Malibu Junior High getting turned into vampires, or is that just dangling out there still?

We had a president who is pretty much the golden calf for the GOP shot by a mentally ill man, and things have only gotten worse on both the gun control and the mental health services fronts since then. Nothing will convince the NRA's lapdogs.

That turns into a robot, right?

Which ones do Harry Potter and Doctor Spock fly around in?

They let the cat out of the bag with that Goldieblox human reproductive technology lab toy that's all the rage for Christmas.

I find it difficult to believe that the Drudge Report team could get a simple, easily checked fact wrong. That's just not like them.