I think in some cases despair and depression is part of what motivates them to become comedians, to keep the despair at bay maybe? I don't know much about Williams personal life, but I was always a fan and he will be missed.

I dunno, I'm not sure it's necessarily that simple. In his case especially, I think the despair was the reason for his career. At least, I think the way he fought the despair was, and that it was something that was always, or nearly always, with him. I do think he knew how he touched people, but... to borrow a very…

I'm not usually very affected about a celebrity death, because I didn't know them. But this one was a punch to the gut. One of my earliest memories are of watching Mork & Mindy. It's hard to think he's no longer in the world.

Never met the man in my life, but I feel like I lost a close friend. Dude was transcendent. Depression is a horrible disease.

Kind of a romantic version of "Enemy Mine"

Right down to the drug addiction.

I don't know but from here it looks like it might have a bad case of Humans.

Wow. Note how the clouds scrupulously avoid Australia.

I guess I'm confused here. Can't you pay a psychiatrist to be interested?

Of course it's a pain in the arse. You're sitting on a spike.

"Basically, he was close to being a human Narwhal."

Lucky! I have two recurring "dreams": my teeth are loose and falling out and I show up for the final exam for a class only to realize that I haven't spent a single day in that class or doing any work for it.

Lore?

It's an old SNL sketch. I can't embed, but here's a link to the clip:

too funny.. I actually had a conversation with a guy wherein I bemoaned my lack of knowledge of cosmology. He gave me the strangest look and asked, "why would you want to study makeup?"

That's a geyser, not a glacier.

(comes in here, expecting to see a comment from an anti-science person)

Excellent use of the space, and keeping it relatively empty means your boy can do with it as he pleases.

Apparently "dragon" is one of those words, like "Mars," that studios were superstitious about using in a title for years. Of course, that might have had something to do with the fact that for a long time most of the movies with "dragon" in the title were terrible.