I think Meredith had it wrong (from my perspective as an older sister with a younger sister and a mum who was in and out of hospital). The bit where Nani is contemplating giving Lilo up and she has this one last night with her.

EDUCATE HIM!!!!

What in the world . . .?

Love the director's commentary on that where they have Misty say "My bike"

My little sister and I have a real thing about Lilo and Stitch. We're both grown up and out of the house now. We still shout "Go to your room"/"I'm in my room" at each with alarming regularity. And for my money it's the saddest of all the Disney films. So much in that movie just works. And David is the Disney King.

That's what REF (Research Excellence Framework - UK university system for assigning funding) is supposed to combat. Papers are ranked by experts based on impact. If you're a scientist with a 3 or 4 star paper you become a football player and the period before REF starts is the transfer window. I know of one Canadian…

But do you think this movie will capture the nuance of that?

As others have said - CANNOT UNSEE

My bet? It will chastise 'science' for trying to understand things and 'nature' will rightfully put those scholars in their place.

This month I fell in love with Shameless US. I never got into the UK series, but I don't know if the US series is just removed enough from my experiences to be funny, or if it's the production values, or the amazing talents they've got, or if it's because I have a bit of a girl crush on Fiona Gallagher/Emmy Rossum -…

OMG - will this be my second ever funded kickstarter? WHO KNOWS?!?!!

You've opened my eyes. Suddenly I hate it too. That's how moaning on the internet works.

Not going to lie - little bit of wee came out when I read this.

Oh honey. Go and listen to the album, now you get it you'll love it :)

And her standard outfitting has the reactor core venting into engineering - easily solved with a power coupling, but you gotta pay extra for the trim . . .

I heard about that - but you see in my happy land there was some kind of freak accident and Endgame never happened, Voyager just continued trekking through the stars forever, and Janeway and Chakotay got their groove on.

Oh it had a point - it shut Robert Beltran up.

Kate Mulgrew has some really interesting con-interviews where she talks about how she was very resistant to the idea of Janeway/Chakotay, and how Janeway's characterisation was so inconsistent because they were so frightened of having a female captain. I totally get where she's coming from as a 27 year old woman. As a…

I'm generalising here, but I think the 'bigger than yourself' force (whether you choose to refer to it as 'god' or not) is partly a replacement for a drive to drink. I think it's needed so if you have the powerful urge to drink, you can replace it with an as powerful belief. That's how I've interpreted it working…