Clearly I didn’t hurry hard here to get in the first joke.

I’m curious about the purported sequel (with the adults). No sign of anything on IMDB, nothing even whispered for ages, as far as I can tell. Are they waiting to see how this does? Or were the rumors wrong and the whole movie is kids and then adults?

SF author Peter Watts has postulated Westeros is in an O’Neill cylinder, although he has had to admit to some fudging to get to some of the conclusion (perpetual mist so you can’t see the other side is one possibility. Also, larger than the one pictured).

I was thinking the same about Near Dark, but it was September 12.

An ancestor of mine, via my paternal grandmother. Maybe I’ll hit up the family and see if we can raise the cash to buy this. Should go over well.

Yeah, it’s a shame that people have caught on and therefore the price has gone up. Better for the price a few years ago, for sure.

Did you make up that handle just for this convo?

Absolutely. I keep distilled water to add a wee drop or two when I drink. I’ve heard of people who try to get water from the same source as the whisky so they can meld those two. A bit too obsessive for my needs.

Oban 14yo is a quality standard. Also good and probably in that price range: Auchentoshan Three Wood and, believe it or not, Amrut, which is a single malt from India. Probably the Fusion.

One of the finest single episodes of any sitcom ever.

Can’t remember if I’ve told this before. In the late ‘80s (well before easy video and social media and shit like this going mad online), I was a photographer at a major Canadian daily. There was a charity bowling event (5 pin, because this was Canada) I was asked to grab a shot at. A cute kid was bowling so I kneeled…

The good news is, this is the internet, and there is always a pedant waiting to swoop.

Alex Ferguson: Just five minutes more.

He’s the same age as my son, who is off to play college (and that will be about it). Astonishing to see.

Chattel, not cartel. 99% for the brilliance, deduction for the tiny error.

A plaque honouring Jefferson Davis was just taken off a fucking Bay store in fucking Montreal in fucking Canada the other day, put up there in ‘57 by the Daughters of the Confederacy.

I once kneeled on a sidewalk and watched a large hornet and a larger dragonfly fight it out, sometimes on the ground, sometimes in the air. One of the most amazing things I’ve ever witnessed.

I was shopping for a turntable for my son a couple years ago and this went on in the sound room. Always an outstanding album to listen to, but man, on vinyl with the system they were demonstrating, incroyable.

I was shopping for a turntable for my son a couple years ago and this went on in the sound room. Always an…

I think I recall reading the last time an 18yo beat a #1 seed, it was Nadal at 18.

“Don’t give your opponents the finger on Snapchat... oh, wait, never mind, that’s only if you’re a girl.”