This is actually a pretty cool story, snark aside. The bull was being transported to a slaughterhouse when it bolted from the trailer (hence the Alcatraz jailbreak reference). It made its way to nearby York College where the police cornered him. The Farm Sanctuary peeps notified Stewart and his wife Tracey, who's an…

And just like something out of the Bible, part of the deal is that the bull will be castrated, according to the AP report.

The guy who does the AltShiftX Game of Thrones YouTube vids did an April Fools Day one for Hodor in which he just says "Hodor" over and over again for like three minutes. Where's his GJI?

My friend Alan Sokal would like to have a word with you.

Havok once asked Polaris something like, "What do you think of Rahne?" and she replied with something like, "It makes the grass grow."

Terry Gross probably can do a mean Carlton dance.

I love that man. And Charlie Pierce. And Roxeanne Roberts. And Paula Poundstone. And hell, all of them, really.

Don't tell me.

"Mugs Of NPR documents public radio’s torrid love affair with caffeine"

In my defense it was like 1 a.m. when I wrote that and I'm in my post-twenties. I'm not as spry as I used to be, mentally or otherwise.

It was a good time to stop reading comics, in general, I've found. I didn't have to deal with the Clone Saga or the retconning of Peter and Mary Jane's marriage via a literal deal with the devil in the Spidey books, either, for example. I know both storylines have their defenders, but from what I've seen I would've…

'Cause he dodges bullets, Avi.

The dad cracks me up. "Can we take pills… and cook the corn?"

Yes to the first part—and I liked that development, as I thought it brought some much-needed depth to his character at that point—and I'm not sure about the second part. The team's leader, Mirage, was Native American, as was Warpath, who was the brother of deceased X-Men member Thunderbird and the leader of the New…

He's former KGB, so I'm counting him. We find that out in a quick aside in Doug the Head's office. The relevant dialogue, via IMDB:

He's ex-KGB, according to Bullet Tooth Tony.

Or "guest" if you're in the Archer-verse.

I loved this movie as a kid. Even the minor roles, like Dabney Coleman's character Dr. McKittrik and John Wood's Prof. Falken, were fleshed out so well with little screen time, and Joshua/WOPR was such an intriguing character, as well, up there with HAL in my book.

This will probably be the only place ever where this will be even remotely relevant, so I'm taking my shot: Whenever I listen to the song "Atlas" by Battles, the slowed-down segment between the penultimate and final verses reminds me of this sequence, like to the point where I'm almost convinced that they were…

Of the other Soviet Super Soldiers, Gremlin is great, too. I'll never forget him hopping out of the torso of the Titanium Man armor in the X-Men vs. Avengers miniseries and immediately talking smack.