I just imagine "Larry Bird" sounding like John Lithgow, which makes it instantly zany indeed.

I agree, he could be a good Bard. We will see I suppose. By the way, when he says "I shoot a lot of arrows", does that mean he'll be a focus or leading a faction in the war of five armies? I'm not sure Bard does that in the book (anyone?) but they might stick him in the fight in part two.

You 'friended' ManchuCandidate. When I am impressed or intrigues by peoples' posts I do the same. I also clicked on the heart thingy.

Sweet, thank you kindly. I never considered any of that!

"...and on the eighth day, the Lord looked upon his creation and it was good...but he thought it could be better with some hellacious nano-bots. And thus the Lord spake, 'let there be bacteriophages.' And it was thus."

It is known.

No. No he is not.

There's plenty of stuff coming out later this year that we will start to hear more about. "All we are saying is give [io9] a chance."

Wait, are you saying you THINK that may be the case, or that there's an implication that it is the case? I read the books, but don't recall seeing that...did I miss a HUGE hint?? Honestly I'd love for Jon Snow to be the true heir. He's the most "good" (I know, it's all relative in GOT) and balanced character in the…

THOSE THINGS ARE REAL?!

He moves more like a spider whilst wall-crawling. That's something that's painfully simple yet new and refreshing in a spider-man movie. :)

"Octagonecologyst" is one of my favorite strange albums for late nights to date. Up there with DJ Shadow's "Entroducing" and RjD2's "Dead Ringer"

Isn't it all a bit teleological (not to mention self-important and self-serving) to think for a second that we are the end result of evolution? I didn't know it was ever a doubt or question that it still acts on the human species...How sad if we were as good as it gets, what with all our consuming and wasting and…

Jealous...how was it??

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

Brought an involuntary smile to my face. Good one.

I saw that too, and scratched my head for a moment. Good catch.

I tried it in my chair. Embarrassing effort. I'm glad only my cat saw it.

Is it one of the ancient plant-animals from At the Mountains of Madness??

Here here...It would take a comprehensive effort across the industry at many levels, not just a one-day veggie fest.