Shit, the first racoon I saw was the height of a medium dog, but fat with little legs. Probably outweighed me at the time. And I had to walk past it to get to my apartment. It was just...staring.

The person in front of me is allowed to recline, so why shouldn't I be? Why do I only get to sleep on overnight flights?

Since you brought up Prince—I didn't realise what those Trojans in his pocket were in Little Red Corvette until I was in my 20s (I heard a cover version and had an epiphany). On the flip side, I always thought when Darling Nikki was "making love with a magazine" she was sticking it up her cootch.

Fellowship of the Ring, midnight opening. The zeitgeist and the effects together make it worthwhile watching with other excitable people and on the big screen.

Not even close. I said that one person over 40 is less mature than one person under 20. I said sleeping with the more mature person was more fun.

Then you've misread my post—if someone tells me they love MacBeth, I'm going to assume the ending is within scope. It's a small canon, and if you don't love the end, how do you know you love it?

Until there's a word shortage, I'll talk as I wish.

The reason I picked a single play is because the body of work for Firefly is really small. It was deliberate. Had I picked The Simpsons, I'd have been making a different point.

Where do you stand with respect to the box?

To agree with you.

That coffee's not that bad, but then again, it's not that good either.

Yeah, it's on Cinemax, so...

You know about the Sheens, right?

Stop watching them then. What are tweens supposed to do—stop being an audience because of your exhaustion?

One of my favourite mono-lampshading happens in Stargate: SG1 where they think they're on an ice planet until they work out they're in Antarctica.

How would it read if he were only infrequently polled?

His "defense" reads like he doesn't get to pick anything he's writing about—it's peculiarly coy. The reason there are no gay sex scenes is because he didn't think it served the story to have a gay POV character, not because they wrote themselves out or some other oddity.

He should feel more empowered to take control of his books.

Was he unhappy before he raped her, or just afterwards?

I think what *you* mean to say is that 13 is the average (mean? mode? what's the standard dev look like?) age at which humans currently enter this Puberty of which you speak. You don't mean to say all humans, and you don't mean to imply you know if she had or not. And you don't think that it's a hard line of sympathy…