Well, sure. If they didn't, it'd be schadenschmertz.

That's okay; no quid pro quo needed. Sometimes, doing the right thing's payment enough.

Ah, the dread hand of the WGA. "Are we going to hang out at this wall all year? Look, you idiots bring it over here and I'LL flip off the safety!"

Nothing against the first three, long as they're negotiated between employer and employee, sans extortion. As for child-labor laws, even a cursory glance at the internet will show that not nearly enough of them are locked up in sweatshops.

To the core. I'm always willing to do my part to take food out of their mouths.

Well, that's a shame. All the more books for me to catch up on, then.

I hope the Pinkertons are hiring.

a.k.a., "heroes."

This sounds like my big chance to be a replacement worker!

Any TV show that uses non-union writers? 'Cause if so, I'd like to support them to whatever extent possible.

Well, as Gaiman himself says above: if you've got the rights to adapt something so potentially big, you'd be crazy not to. So it's going to happen. That being the case, might as well lobby for the kind of adaptation most likely to do the source material justice.

Fred Astaire was a peerless dancer, but a lousy singer. The man's voice was almost comically weak, but the studios kept putting him in front of mikes and trying to sell him as a triple threat. But he did have one astounding moment. When he recorded Cole Porter's "I Concentrate on You," his flaws as a singer became a…

The boy's a couple sex offenders short of an anime convention, is what I'm saying.

Taking bets on the first contestant to snap and tell the confessional camera, "I am down on whores and I shant quit ripping them till I do get buckled."

What's Quenya for "Satellite of Love"?

I'm no fan of United … but In their minor defense, even healthy, normal rabbits can be insanely delicate. Simply getting startled at the wrong place/time has been known to send some perfectly healthy buns into GI stasis. So there's plenty of ways that a ride in a plane's cargo hold could've gone wrong, even if…

Bowie hangers-on.

Japan has made several "tiny Godzilla" movies. But he's down out of frame, and the English subs usually don't mention he's there.

Okay, I'll say it: Polly Ryan does something for me.

It's not my fault nobody will make me famous.