Turns out, the whole movie is on YouTube. I and some of my friends will be live-tweeting it on Sunday night, #stepsonlover.

My Stepson, My Lover with Terry O'Quinn sounds AMAZING.

J. K. Rowling recently said on Twitter that she had no interest in watching Magic Beyond Words. Why would she? she said. She was there.

Yeah, we really need to start a Dissolve meme to go with the AV Club meme.

It's weird, but from what I know of Viggo Mortensen I like him better as Viggo than I did as Aragorn. He got seriously into those movies when he was filming in New Zealand, and he seems to have understood the source material better than Peter Jackson did.

Oh, good question. When I lived in London, I literally just walked the streets between four to six hours a day because there was so much. I wasn't that impressed by Big Ben, to be honest, any more than I was by Stonehenge. But two of my favorite spots were Russell Square, which is just a short step away from the…

You do not frighten us, you silly English pig dogs!

I've got the Decameron for that.

This is fantastic. As if I needed an excuse to peruse medieval manuscripts…

Air. Tight.

Yeah, I feel like folks in the Middle Ages had a much healthier view of sex and bodies than we do in the squeamish, Puritanical present.

It's possible I may have passed through it by train on my way to Cornwall, but I've never been in the city proper. Of course now, looking at pictures, I kind of wish I had.

Edinburgh is the only other city that even comes close to rivaling London in my experience. There aren't many cities in America that can equal them.

It's wonderfully trashy, and apparently was influential in the creation of the urban vigilante / crimefighter / superhero genre. I'm really enjoying it.

That's fantastic. Have you lived in London before? It's possibly my favorite city.

This week I’ve been shifting between reading The Decameron, Hard Times, Sense &
Sensibility, and The Mysteries of Paris, a wildly popular pulp novel from the
1840s. I saw Mockingjay part 1, and I’ve been re-watching the first season of
FRINGE, checking for plot holes.

THEY WILL.

or Hank and Marie reacting to pretty much anything.

This scene is really affecting, largely because of Theodore's seeming inability to realize that he's dealing with a real human being. He thinks he's just purchasing a body, but her sudden outpouring of emotions gives the lie to the idea that people can be one or the other. We are incarnate beings. Also, Portia…

It will come back. Just like the Thing.