Bleh, I’ll pass. Give me a thick milkshake with a large serving of brandy or rum in it and I’m good.

I take it by “motherly” she means in a Joan Crawford kind of way.

I wholeheartedly agree, the one exception being the first STAR TREK reboot which I thought was fantastic (walking out I asked my date if he wanted to get another ticket and go see it again immediately). I’m so, so tired of “reboots” — within a couple of years we’re only going to have five stories, just endlessly…

And nerd-dom finally swallows its own tail. What a colossal bummer this would be. I have to grit my teeth when I read things like this and remember what Neal Stephenson said when talking about a TV or movie adaptation of “Snow Crash”, to wit: no matter what the outcome of a movie version, you still have the book, your…

One of my good friends in college was an identical twin; he is gay, his brother is not.

Zowie is his middle name, he went by it until he was 12.

Lucas’ secret weapon in the original trilogy — in STAR WARS in particular — was his (former) wife Marcia, who was the editor on all three movies. Your comment about the pacing in SW is right on. The pacing is excellent and she is the reason. She kept his worst instincts in check and turned out an incredible (as far as…

Yeah, I’d set up my parents for life — houses wherever they want, pied-a-terres in some nice cities for them to visit at their leisure and travel expenses, I think that would be the big extravagance. I’m really put off by the visible trappings of extreme wealth, that “new money” thing is really crass and tacky. For…

LOL yeah right. If I won the lottery, my attorney would give notice on my behalf and say all my fake goodbyes to my work-friends. Nobody there would ever see or hear from me again.

Considering that my primary problems in life are two:

That sounds like the bravado of people who have never even seen a gun in real life, never mind had one pointed at their heads.

I want it in an audiobook, preferably read by Fred MacMurray.

Fair enough. The teenage girls can keep the mushy crap anyway, I’m done with that part of my life I think. Give me a real story, or just straight up well-written porn.

Can I assume you’re shortly going to provide a link to something angsty up on AO3?

Word. A teacher at my high school disappeared one day (like, vanished without a trace, the school only discovered he was gone after the third consecutive class period showed up and no teacher). There were always rumors that he’d had an affair with a student, etc. but of course we never really knew. At my 20 year…

I got my drivers license at 28. I never needed one growing up, and then moved to a very walkable city with great public transportation as an adult so it just never came up. I only got it because I had been laid off from work and had some time on my hands to take driving lessons!

My love for all things Knights Templar is clashing violently with my extreme distaste for all things Jeremy Renner.

That zombie Doberman is pretty rad. Anyone speak Tamil who can twig if this is meant to be a little tongue-in-cheek? The scene at the children’s party and the one immediately afterwards looked like they might have been on the goofy side.

Zzzz. Weak-link character in a weak-link movie.

Instead of Fin? Why would you take out Fin, he’s the secondary lead in the movie? The only character who clearly and demonstrably does *not* belong is Vader — he’s not in the fucking movie! Jesus.