Brinkley's brittle, but Bammer's brutal.

"So, have you heard anything? Is Chaz gonna be okay?"

One time I didn't get Mitch Hedberg's autograph. He was touring as the opening act for Lewis Black and Dave Attell for some Comedy Central stand-up tour in 2003, and I waited in line at the Egyptian Room in Indianapolis for like an hour after the show in the vain hope he'd pop out to say hi. I got Black and Attell's…

In my original draft for this, which featured a LONG digression about Daphne fighting witch crime in the future with the help of her shapeshifting AI companion DARE-N, I suggested that, since Seth MacFarlane is basically already doing Lynde on American Dad, they could just have him play him here, too.

Oh, I would kill for a plate of poppers right now.

…That would work. That would really work.

This one isn't necessarily accurate, because there are definitely games he's worked on that I haven't tried, but I usually accept that anything Chris Avellone works on will be interesting. Buggy and incomplete, but interesting.

I accidentally read that, Promethea, and The Illuminatus Trilogy one summer when I was just out of college and went a little nuts.

I have gotten into so many arguments with people where I find myself using half-remembered snatches of Morrison's own weird philosophy, and sounding like a crazy person, and not caring, because I will go to bat for him every single time.

He got back on the horse for a while last year, and damn if it wasn't just as good as or better than the old stuff. I sometimes get the sense that his personal life is kind of screwed up, and that that disrupts the work, but no one writes dialogue so vulgar or beautiful.

Beauty is only interesting at first. Spend long enough with someone, and most of the time they just look the way they look; you just spend too much time with them to constantly go around with your jaw dropped.

CT is one of the only games where I'm legitimately sad when it's over, and I have to say goodbye to the characters and the world. To Faraway Times perfectly captures that - it's both sad, and triumphant.

Have you ever read the Game Design Forum's piece on reverse engineering Chrono Trigger?
http://thegamedesignforum.c…

The problem with Chrono Cross as a continuation of the series is that it doesn't FEEL like Chrono Trigger at all. It's a sequel in plot terms, and the combat isn't wholly dissimilar, but the tone of the game is completely different. For all of the End of The World stuff, Chrono Trigger is a hopeful game (at least…

I've always bought into Lee's suggestion that it's really not a courtroom, because all the courtrooms got blown up, along with all the laws and all of human society, and tossing poor dumb Baltar out an airlock wasn't going to bring them back, or do anything except turn the last dregs of humanity into the sort of…

I mean, who else is going to sleep with Cally? Can't you just imagine their idiot pillow talk? He's basically her soulmate.

Plot-wise, Pegasus is unimportant. Thematically, the show doesn't make sense without them. It's an entire show about not going mad with grief when the worst thing in the world happens to you, about staying a person. They had to show some people who didn't, and try to give us some sympathy for them.

That pointlessness is kind of the point, though, because, despite all of his efforts to be one, he's NOT a prophet. He's just a dude acting like one because it makes him think he's important and that his life has meaning. So when he catches a whiff of the show's version of actual for-reals Divine Intervention, he…

Without Anders, would we have ever gotten John Hodgman Brain Surgeon Guy?

I love Ellen, but the reasons why are all pretty firm spoiler territory. She's the heart and soul of the show's best episode, and while her characterization is often sacrificed in favor of Saul's, I think there are enough compelling moments sprinkled across the show to let her hold her own.