"(and Astrid)" is going to be my go-to parenthetical for every Fringe comment from now until the end of time.

I'd hoped as much, and it's actually really good to hear. I wish more American series would go for shorter durations, really — here's a set chunk of time, tell your story, get in and get out and don't waste time or drag things out indefinitely....

Can't make myself go for that ride with WALL-E, but that take on EVE works surprisingly well.

This letter is a thing of beauty.

I will bow to no Goblin King that doesn't break out into random musical numbers and wear inadvisable pants.

Sigh. Yeah. Welcome to the gaming community.

My favorite's always going to be the scene in Lilo & Stitch where Stitch gets out his frustrations on a model version of the city. ("Wow. San Francisco." *tinyrampage*)

OH THE HUMANITY

One man's Misha passion? Is this actually about Supernatural fandom run amok?

Funny how when it's the Whedons (and yes, I'm a fan), my reaction runs about like this: "Nepotism in action. Shiny!" :)

re: the pneumatic tubes: not new, but seldom used. One of the commentaries from last year remarked on that and they said they wanted to find ways to use them again. Looks like they did!

I only had packaging issues at GameStop once. They haven't bothered me too much since, although that said, it's beeen a while since I bought anything there... and yeah, there's reasons.

If you're going to talk about other astronaut references in ME, you missed the screamingly obvious one. ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Shepard

I... have no idea where this came from. Oh, my brain. ;)

Pretty great name, as wars go. I'm also partial to the Pig War: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_War

Actual side effect of that whole incident: destroying the original collection of the Library of Congress. (http://www.loc.gov/about/history.html)

My first computer was this. I still have it. It still works. I pulled it out the other day for a round of Pac-Man. Ah, good times....

Disney: surprisingly well represented in this. ;)

The Toschi Station line got exponentially funnier the first time I saw Star Wars on DVD — from the UK.* For those not acquainted with the phenomenon, movies converted to PAL format will run just a little bit faster; Return of the Jedi, for instance, runs six minutes shorter on my UK DVDs than the US ones, despite…

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