What is it with these lines on the road telling me where and which way I should drive my car. I thought I woke up this morning in a free country. 

Also, the music (some of it by Brian Eno!). You can totally sing along with the opening theme by chanting the movie’s title. You can’t do this with a whole lot of movies.

A lot of people shit on seasons 1 and 2, but season 7 was full of shitty episodes as the cast and crew were phoning it in while prepping for Generations.

Christ almighty, you’re such a transparently disingenuous liar.

I’m a left winger my entire life

I said that Watchmen was the 300-page equivalent of a sixth-form poem.

In some countries, perhaps, in some others particularly in Asia they have been quietly shutting down shops quite a while before the bankrupcy.

Really the whole thing is highway robbery, with the Bain Capital crew fucking over everyone else.

Not going to reply to anyone directly as there are, frankly, too many of you, but I need to say how disappointed I am to see so many rushing to defend a registered sex offender after reading this article. You could just...not do that.

Talk about rehabilitation all you want (and if you are, I hope you’re defending…

Listen, I’m all for second chances...

In the old days it was done better - less preachy and more subtle.

Never forget that Loeb wrote this scene:

Maybe they should provide grief counseling to the fans after unceremoniously firing one of its most beloved creators.

My theory is that the further east you go in Martin’s world, the further back in time you go in the history of modern fantasy literature. Westeros is basically post-Tolkien/D&D epic fantasy, all castles and knights. But Essos is more like Fritz Leiber or Robert Howard-type sword and sorcery, and by the time you get to…

Or maybe he became someone else later in his life? How about that?

Don’t forget Professor Charles Eggzavier, where every other person with that name is “Zavier.”

Damn the left! .. turning on someone that turns out to be shitty.

Tomorrow!! I have been singing my own version of ONE DAY MORE! for the entire day.

io9ers, my apologies. I know this isn’t proper, but I hope y’all don’t mind if I post my own Shape of Water tribute art.

Western culture has spent hundreds of years letting white men write the narratives—both fictional and real—focused on cultures that are not their own and in doing so, allowed for inaccuracies, and a romanticized fetishization to become part of the way we as a society see those cultures. This manifests itself in a…