Oh yeah, I'm definitely aware that happens and that I am a crotchety old man in a relatively young man's body; this is my issue (and so often an issue I have with Whedon's writing), not the show's.

Wait, does Captain Firefly really say 'verse instead of universe? I don't know why but I find that super annoying…

Holy shit this is good, easily album of the year so far.

I had no clue a new album was coming - very excited to check this out when I get home!

It's from the band he had with Midge Ure (The Rich Kids) in the late 70s, pretty excellent: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTu…

Er, the latter… here it is: http://www.amazon.com/Piped…

Maaaaaatlock!

Hello everybody, how are you? I haven’t done one of these in a while. Pretty uneventful weekend – an emergency trip back to my home country last month has left me very low on cash for the foreseeable future.

Yes! After The Shakespeare Code and The Unicorn & the Wasp (The Unquiet Dead was just a bit 'meh'), I had come to dread the yearly 'The Doctor visits a famous artistic figure' episode and seeing that the Vincent van Gogh one was written by Richard fucking Curtis (whose writing, aside from Blackadder, I generally…

Yeah, I forgot just how bad S3 was until I realised the episodes covered so far and the two to come and then remembered the finale with the Tinkerbell "I believe in Time Lords" crap.

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Probably my favourite Simpsons quote… except maybe Moe's "I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of and the things I am proud of are disgusting."

Woah, you're *not* supposed to stay and fight it? Now I'm starting to understand why I was so bad at that game.

Definitely the low point in film advertising I have seen. From memory, that aspect of the campaign started after the film was already in cinemas and failing… how could anybody possibly think that having some guy known to the general public only as 'Adam Sandler's mate' shout at a camera for 90 seconds could save their…

Er… unless Kureishi has changed an awful lot since Buddha of Suburbia then I suspect that probably won't be the case.

Not knowing anything about Veronica Mars beyond the title or US cable channels, I figured this was something about Jeremy Piven exiting the Veronica Mars film due to poisoned marshmallows.

Last year my friends and I got into the habit of finding and reading aloud Justified slash whilst waiting for takeout to be delivered. The first one we read was Raylan/Tim largely built around watching each other clean guns and sharpen knives.

I have been really confused by people (particularly Emily Nussbaum, who I usually think is pretty good) sneering about how Marty is 'fine, just fine' now when he very visibly breaks down immediately after saying that - I read that much more as a sign of him being acutely aware of just how badly he'd fucked up and how…

Umm… I'm pretty sure there was one group of Gauls led by a man named Asterix who resisted long after Vercingetorix failed. Some historian!

The last thing I saw him in was Top of the Lake… going from that to this could be the starting point for an Inventory about whiplash shifts in quality between consecutive roles for actors.