Did you ever read her New Yorker article on her terrible bout with chronic fatigue syndrome? That's when she wrote Seabiscuit and it really shows in the text. She's a really great writer, and I sometimes wonder if staying in bed for ten years working on her craft is part of that.

Unbroken. The book is beautifully written and researched, and I'm worried the film will not be so wonderful. Also, a novel called The Baltimore Atrocities, which I enjoyed.

As a Star Wars fan, I insisted my dad take me to see Howard the Duck. I couldn't believe that the man who created Star Wars could fail at anything. I was too young to get all the dirty jokes, which my dad was grateful for, but it's the first movie I recall seeing in the theater and recognizing it was just bad. I…

Chandler's dad was played by Kathleen Turner.

I'm one of those people who think Craig Ferguson is probably the best interviewer and talk show host of late night, but I go to bed too early to watch him. I enjoyed him via clips.

Without giving anything away, one of the most interesting things about the book is that it gender reverses many of the tropes of bodice ripping romance novels. Much of the hero's traditional role falls to Claire, where many of the traumas the befall the damsel happen to Jamie. On top of that Gabaldon is no dummy, and…

I've always wanted them to revive Trek as an anthology series, and I think of Carbon Creek as a good reason why. It created an interesting one-off character, and it was a lovely tribute to the optimism of the early space race that inspired the series (without glossing over the paranoia and fear of the cold war).

I always see it as the red-headed stepchild of the Trek franchise, so I can't help but have affection for it. It had some really great episodes, but between seething, pouting tantrum-throwing fans on one side and idiot UPN executives on the other, it really was hamstrung. I know some people involved with the…

Only tangentially related, but CNN would do well to bring back Style with Elsa Klensch.

Sally Field told a story about kissing him in Murphy's Romance. She'd heard he was the best kisser in Hollywood, but she'd played opposite people like Paul Newman, Burt Reynolds and Jeff Bridges and didn't think much about it. Until he kissed her during the scene, and she got weak in the knees and all swoon-y.

I feel bad. A live show will be a terrible strain on the animators' wrists.

As much as I like the actress, I think it's implausible that Abigail would survive two throat cuttings. I think it's also possible that Alana is dead, so they can bring in the woman Will marries in the books.

Has Working the Engles been picked up? That might help determine Abigail's fate.

All these years later, and the sight of a Tweety Bird Pez dispenser causes me to dissolve into giggles.

Not rap, but no lie, I saw Beyonce perform at a high school talent show thing when I was in high school.

Being from Houston…which has the climate of New Orleans without the charisma and the boots of Texas without the irony of Austin, this is tricky. But I'm going with ZZ Top.

I've seen ads for this show. They struck me as a 30 Rock- like parody of a medical show, but the show is real and serious.

Yeah. It seems like Lindelof is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. People have said over and over again that one of the great things about the book is that that neither the reader or characters ever find out what happened, and I don't know what could possibly explain it that would satisfy people. Yet, how do…

The Black Death did wonders for common laborers. For awhile, at least, there were so few people left that had negotiation power.

I got that. That's what I meant when I said unresolvable. But I don't know how long the show can sustain momentum when the characters don't get their questions answered. I don't think I'd want to watch seven seasons of Waiting for Godot, either.