E. Buzz, you owe it to yourself to spend an afternoon at the Main Branch.  It's literally awesome.

Thanks, y'all!

A lot of people (understandably) think of the massive weight of seasons, characters, lead changes, regime changes, stories, culture shock - fifty years worth, now! - and recoil in terror.  But the show has *never* been a densely layered mythology - in fact, the regeneration thing serves to essentially reboot the show,…

If you have essentially no history with video games, by all means (unless you have lots of disposable income) do not get a console (that means XBox, Playstation, or Wii), as the vast majority of console games will have an incredibly high learning curve of reaction time, hand-eye coordination, and even controller…

The Decalogue is easy: it's ten one-hour parts, which do not have to be seen in any particular order.  If you have NF, just get one disc (three or four chapters) and see them at your leisure.  It isn't even close to the ass-commitment that Satantango is.

May I ask what music you actually, genuinely love, if any?

I've always been intimidated by Remembrance of Things Past.  If I start it, I don't want to be like everyone else and just stop at the first two books.  I'm also afraid of not loving it…

To continue with the BKV, I'm planning to do just that with Ex Machina.

There is definitely a shit-ton of BPRD, and a lot of overarching story intertwining between it and Hellboy, so I'm right there with you.  It feels even worse having been spoiled about major developments lately in that world…

Expectations are the devil of quality.

That was what really hurt about the Pierce Affair: when it happened I was like, "But, but …he just wrote this epic, awesome article, full of passion and knowledge, and dove right into the comments to talk about it with us!  And now he's gone?!?  What the fuck?"

Jazz singers are definitely a good place to start for the intimidated.  The lack of lyrics to focus on can be a big stumbling block for a lot of people.  So: Ella and Billie and Dinah Washington and Anita O'Day, incredibly accessible and just plain good.  Then move to the likes of Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Cab…

Honestly, if you don't like the pilot, stop watching and go do something else. 

Something like twenty different artists illustrated issues of Sandman, so almost by the law of averages, yeah, the art gets better.  And I'd say the art (and storytelling) is the weakest in that initial run of issues.  But one can't really make it through Sandman without being able to roll with a lot of stylistic…

I'm racking my brain trying to understand your username.  Could you explain?  (And yes, I know who she is - I made it to Form & Void before I quit.)   It kinda sounds like some statement from The Editorial Section Formerly Known As Aardvark Comment.

I hope that you someday start on these guys at the same time, and slowly discover that Dick actually writes the stories that Vonnegut writes Kilgore Trout writing. 

I sometimes feel bad that I read The Great Outdoor Fight (recommended to me as a good place to start), loved it, and never read any more Achewood.  Is there another mostly self-contained story arc like that I should read next?

To this day I'm still weirded out - about a show I didn't even like! - that they never brought Emma Thompson on Frasier as Frasier's first wife.

Also note the heartfelt double Hitlers later in the episode.

I would like to just say that - fuck all the glamor shoots and magazine covers - Tina Fey has never looked more beautiful than gazing with tenderness off that pier.