Since college, I've wondered how we know how an older form of the language — Old English or Middle English — were actually pronounced. One professor I had was especially picky about the pronunciation of the Middle English of the Canterbury Tales. Fascinating topic.

"Neurologist wants the brain of Donald Trump"

Please, Hammer, don't bite 'em.

I watched about the first half of the first episode of Camelot. Excruciatingly bad. Amateurishly bad. And I sort of enjoyed the BBC Robin Hood a while back, so it's not like my standards are that high. It was unwatchably bad — and it has Eva Green in it. Eva Green! Eva Green, mostly nekkid! And it was still…

I was a bit annoyed by Bellafante's article when I read it. It wasn't that she didn't like Game of Thrones — that would have a perfectly legitimate reaction for a critic — it's that she questioned its very right to exist. In fact, she didn't discuss the merits or flaws of the show at all. Her entire piece was a…

I was rather intrigued by this until I saw the teaser that made the movie look like a remake of ET.

Of course, you're basing that belief on the rather dubious idea that Jesus was, in fact, a real person.

No, no, no. Rudy Rhod wasn't a black stereotype. He was a gay stereotype, going down on a stewardess not withstanding.

Hell, where I done growed up, we had our own white trash breeding program. It was called Friday night and a case of Busch.

I may never eat chocolate ice cream again.

Is it just me, or is that photo of Ellen Page is both disturbing and alluring at the same time?

Then she'd be called Stumpy, though.