I can only agree with you on your Gorillaz/Radiohead views. I heard Feel Good Inc. for the first time in months on the radio yesterday and it reminded me that I really do like their stuff.

I honestly didn't think that, as a normally pretty lighthearted comedy, Brooklyn Nine-Nine had it in itself to give me a real emotional gut-punch, but I'd be lying if I said that the "meep morp" moment in that season 2 finale didn't give me slightly wet eyes.

Good to see Andre Braugher up there for Brooklyn Nine-Nine. He's consistently absolutely hilarious and mixes deadpan and humanity remarkably well.

I have Duolingo too, but I opted for Spanish instead of Gaelic.

The day I knew I was never going to get on with Gaelic was the day I learned that the very common Gaelic name "Niamh" is pronounced "Neev"

In which case I expect it to be pronounced Snayrghgart, because Gaelic's one of those wonderful languages where nothing sounds like the way it's written

A good lawyer would argue for a huge cock falling under handsomeness and the genie-granted handsomeness itself, in combination with the bank account and the intellect, needing to be so dazzling as to bring about world peace by itself.

I'm currently plowing my way through Ring of Steel, a history of the First World War focusing on the strategy and internal politics of Austria-Hungary and Germany. It's dense, but is generally well-written and is also a really important new book generally.

The actual underlying premise of a Nazi-Japanese conquest of the mainland United States might be a little bit alien space bats, but The Man In The High Castle is one of my favourite books regardless, so I'm looking forward to this.

Summer generally is pretty dead here for TV, not just Saturdays. It is pretty rare that a series of any quality or significance launches between the end of May and the beginning of September. Some imports get shown, but new stuff is generally thin on the ground, to say the least.

Prior to about 10pm, quite a lot of people. (Speaking from my personal experience at least, when people here go out on a Friday or Saturday night, they tend to go out fairly late.) Granted, Saturday evening from about 6pm to about 9pm is largely all-ages programming (which I think it's safe to say Hannibal is not),…

…in America, Saturday evening is a quiet slot in terms of TV viewers?

You can lie to other people, and that's fine, but there's really nothing to gain from lying to yourself.

The idea of Nietzsche's true dream being neither the ultimate flourishing of the Übermensch, nor the abandonment of Judaeo-Christian monotheism and its associated life-denying moral code, but rather Warner Bros. churning out two shit films in the same year, is one that I find strangely compelling.

Lyanna Does Lannisport

Curveball: He was actually talking about Jon Tyrell or Jon Bolton.

Breitbart's next op-ed: Are All Democrats Criminally Insane?

Desert-like rock formations and massive castles?

I'm starting to think that he might actually be immortal.

I disagree with you, what with Bond spending most of the film in varying degrees of vulnerability, the relationship with M dominating, the chunk set in and around Skyfall itself, the near-total lack of fancy gadgets, the much younger Q etc. The fancy old Aston is the only obvious parallel.