I like "The Last Kingdom" a lot and love the books it is based off, but what exactly about the violence in it makes it superior? I'm not disagreeing. Just curious.

Yes. And the author speculates that Fawcett had to have been weirdly resistant to all the tropical viruses to have remained healthy trip after trip when all the other Euros around him dropped like flies. Almost like he was some kind of mutant.

I was there on Kodiak when he showed up! We were at my girlfriend's cabin and pretty excited about going into town until we found out he wasn't actually going to perform and was just there to sign autographs. We kept fishing.

Even if I told you it was pseudonym for the economic stimulus created by Trump's Mexico wall? (I just made that up.)

Sounds like Lord Tennyson to me. Alec might even have known a Lord Tennyson (Alfred's descendant). And…I dunno, he had a recurring brain fart in the shape of that name every time he looked at Ford. That's my theory!

Me too. I was there in 2007. Fond memories.

Yeah but a man's got to eat. Plus I actually like his descriptions of food. And what kind of a monster would I be if I insinuated he was lazy AND a glutton?

If he converted Dream On to DVD I could support that hobby.

Blogging about sports, editing other people's books, travelling to conventions, running his theater…those are his PASSIONS! Don't take a man's passions from him!

Famous Kyrgyz comics writer Abdurman Vashilikivochivik will also be there to sign copies of graphics novel: Yak in Yurt…What?!

Meanwhile in other news, George RR Martin dropped everything to speak at the Bishka-Con in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

Striker…striker….STRIKER!

Your kid is awesome.

Ha! GRRM writes. Hilarious.

They kept him around for six seasons and I think his most memorable moment was nearly getting killed by the Mountain in season one. At least in the books he was a verifiable badass who served as a kind of a reminder/foil for Jaime about the kind of brash prodigy he himself used to be. I feel bad for the actor until I…

That made me laugh. Instead of a black Valyrian dragon horn he's got a copy of Faces of Death on Beta-Max. Super scary.

I hope McGregor's character goes turncloak and kills Euron. Not because I need to see him play a good guy, but because I'm just not buying that Danish dude as Euron. Euron is supposed to radiate a kind of sorcerous psychopathy but that actor just looks like the kind of slightly schlumpy looking dude you'd see at a…

I wouldn't mind a reboot - with the right actor. Actually a reboot would be preferable given that the world of Conan could really use a series to explore it. I've always liked the mythical power of the Hyborian age's pseudo prehistory. HBO?

Hard to argue with that. Personally though, I just really want to see another Conan and have had enough with the dystopian Terminator world.

He seems way more human in True Lies but I think Conan is his most iconic role - for the simple reason that it's impossible for me to imagine a better Conan. I actually think that Chris Pratt could pull off a believable Conan though. I think you want an actor to have a really good sense of humor and a huge amount of…