He does still write a weekly column here under his non-Muppet alias.

... shut up, Gil. Close the deal ... close the deal!

It’s been a while, but I’ve had to contend with Parental Visit and Foot-To-Ball Planetary Trophy 2018 : Modest Expectations Edition (modest expectations exceeded so far - we won a g-d penalty shootout! Look out for rains of frogs and rivers of blood if we beat Sweden). I finally finished Inquisition and Trespasser a…

Goes even further back than that.

But if it meant having Harlan Ellison’s personality along with his talent, would you still take that bargain?

Every band needs its own special chemistry. And Bez was a very good chemist.

It’s definitely a line I could hear The Tick saying.

And that was just during University Challenge!

Will you pick rifles or computers?

Last weekend I was too involved in Attend Friends’ Wedding to get any other gaming done. I’m going to tackle DA:I’s final quests this weekend so I can finally move onto other things and stop boring the rest of you about it every week.

Meanwhile, the New York State AG has filed a lawsuit against the Trump Foundation, alleging, among other things, that it was guilty of “repeated self-dealing”, was used like “a personal checkbook” by Trump, and its board “existed in name only” and hasn’t met since 1999. For example: Trump personally signed off on a…

That doesn’t narrow it down much.

Sam Loyd came up with the Poe one, apparently.

Coming soon: Dial P for Psycho by Jimmy Carter and Lee Child

So the third one should logically be Legally Blonde: Tokyo Drift.

Is this a thing in the US? Here in the UK, dishwashers are usually connected only to the cold water supply, so running the hot water would make no difference.

“Obviously the list won’t include #SoloAStarWarsStory until it’s available to buy.” says the person who did this.

“ As IndieWire notes, these three films are also the highest grossing of the entire franchise.” This is based on the nominal figures - it’s pretty meaningless to compare the box office for Star Wars in 1977 (when the average ticket price was $2.23*) with that for Last Jedi in 2017 (ave. price $8.97) without correcting…

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