The communal kitchen issues might eventually go away if social media preserves the concept of public shame sufficiently. Or it might escalate them. Probably still too early to know.

From a moral, ethical, legal, and rational standpoint, it absolutely doesn't matter whatsoever. What passes between consenting adults that isn't slavery, grievous self-harm, cannibalism, or murder (the law usually insists you can't consent to these) should be fair game, and I argue for queer rights on this basis.…

They're doing their own take on "The Savage Curtain"? That would be amazing!

That combination of established continuity, fanservice, and economy of storytelling would be thoroughly awesome, and make me take back every bad thing I ever said about Orci and Kurtzman.

Rowling, Meyer, and Collins unfortunately do not contradict the argument that the genre they work in is male-dominated, because all three are seen children's/young adult authors, and female authors have always been prominent in those areas of fiction for as long as they've existed. A great post I read on Goodreads…

This is strictly anecdotal, but growing up as an Italian-Canadian SF&F fan, I observed that while science fiction authors published in English had names hailing from all sorts of ethnic backgrounds (although admittedly mostly Caucasian), fantasy authors had overwhelmingly Anglo-Saxon and Nordic surnames. I also noted…

Note that he doesn't get lumped in with the Harlequin set, though. He's practically touted as literary fiction.

That's what I thought. "Nibiru, seriously?"

I hadn't considered that, but that's a good theory. Still leaning towards Mitchell though.

His knowledge of scientific biological transmogrifications would be highly relevant if they're doing the Extremis storyline.

RPG books are reference books. Yes, there are some companies like White Wolf/CCF who put a lot of setting fluff in their books, but during a game, a rulebook is a reference book. You need to be able to find what you're looking for.

And frankly, the great character building moments with Data, Riker, Picard, and even Guinan are totally worth the slightly contrived set-up.

And what does the colloquial use of "philistine" have to do with the historical Philistines?

Moi aussi, mon ami. Moi aussi.

Eek! The Cat and the Terrible Thunder Lizards. A brilliant show alongside The Tick on Fox Kids Saturday morning line-up. And unavailable on DVD. There's no justice.

Supposedly most of them were rounded up and destroyed by 20th Century Fox.

It couldn't have been said any more clearly or eloquently, thank you. I'll only add that while Star Wars was one of the first 25 films named to the Library of Congress' National Film Registry, those "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant films" deemed worthy of preservation under the National Film…

In total agreement with you. Lucas might have been trying to make the Saga into Anakin's story long after the fact, but there's no way that was his original intention when the first film was playing theatres in 1977. Vader's relationship with the Grand Moff in that film suggests he's Tarkin's underling, or at least…

There have been some really bad ones in the past few years, but the worst was Theseus' from Immortals:

I shouldn't have to tell you Tyrion's speech was amazing.