I remember Fast and the Furious rip-off Torque got a cult following at my secondary school. Apparently a teacher decided to show it in class instead of teaching that day. He was shocked by it and described it as "pure pornography" before destroying the disc. It ended up giving the movie a reputation​among the boys,…

Hollywood has been trying to make a Dungeons and Deagons movie for years. The secret is quite simple. Take the cast and style from the Fast and the Furious franchise and put it in a fantasy world.

Did you hear he adopted an Iraqi child just to learn how to write children better?

I've met people with a violent dislike for fiction or anything that deviates from depicting their basic experience in life.

Isn't it scary that a Jewish man has been chased out of America by white supremacist aligned people?

It helps they moved a lot of the breweries out of town. There is still a limestone stink but not quite as strong as it was when i was a child.

Watching a Father Ted marathon for St. Patricks Day.

Yeah, the local council gave them the majority of the grant to film it. There were plenty of derelicts from the city's rebirth to film in. That is Princess Street though.

It's interesting watching Trainspotting today when you know the local area and see the startling changes, often improvement, that's happened there. One of my friends lives across the road from the pub where Begbie tossed the pint glass, it's now an upmarket German themed gastropub specialising in sausages that's been…

I mean Joss Wheddon outright admitted the inspiration came directly from a Chris Claremont issue where Kitty Pryde and Nightcrawler fought Dracula to save Storm. It even had tongue in cheek genre comedy to support it.

That bit in the Simpsons gave me one of the biggest laughs the series has ever given me.

I'm wondering how much of that is reflective of the general maturing of internet content from the hyper-aggresive and deeply jaded tone that seemed mandatory only just a few years ago. I mean there is still some of that out there but it's not quite as all pervasive as it once was.