What are the consequences for being a secret racist? A celebrity doesn't have to admit to racist views or attitudes in order to hold them. If someone with no history of racism, as you say, were in this situation, would you give them more credit? The lack of said public history might be due to a lack of racism; on…

Imagine an update on A Christmas Carol now. Ebenezer Scrooge would have a fucking stroke if he saw someone using a selfie stick.

Yeah, there are many far more likely targets for that routine. There are enough that it's not really anyone's schtick in specific getting mocked there because it's common enough to basically be its own style. Go trawl through comics on YouTube for a while and one will see just how many people could get tagged with…

Stapled. Tape falls off pretty quickly.

They even have a song called "Aliens Exist" from which you could have drawn!

Eh, I'd say that it's better to have good songs on there than to adhere to ideas about length about which people are likely to change their minds anyway. I quite like Hail To The Thief.

I met a guy last year with an alien abduction story. It wasn't like any other abduction story I'd ever heard, though; it was sort of like "To Serve Man" without a twist. They basically just set him up comfortably with his favourite shows and food, I believe as a show of goodwill, and told him that everything was…

Have you ever checked out BouletCorp? It's the generally autobiographical webcomic (in French and English) of a French comics artist and illustrator. When he's rendering a conversation with real people, he has this running gag of drawing himself as he ordinarily would while drawing the others as a cheeky grab bag of…

Sounds like Vince's heel angles are getting pretty esoteric.

It'd be weird if cats were in the minority, wouldn't it? An internet-based animal-focused subculture that eschewed felines would upend all expectations.

Yeah, he's basically the ideal prestige director for the project. Amazing visual skills, tried-and-tested storytelling ability, unique understanding of filming the ocean; the project was practically made for him to knock out of the park.

Out of the three movies I've seen in theatres as part of work recently (i.e. the past year), Zootopia handily beat out Star Wars and The Jungle Book for personal enjoyment. The others were good entertainment with a few odd decisions (everything to do with the Starkiller in the former, the weirdly squashed and…

He'd be a great spokesman for the Big Brother-based pilot project I want to run called Cool Uncle. It's not fair that some children don't have someone in their life to tell them raunchy jokes, buy them so much candy at once that they risk slipping into a diabetic coma, and let them try driving "just for a minute"…

Labatt's is actually from my hometown, so I should probably say something in their defense. Really, though, Labatt's Blue is Canada's standard beer. Every bar has it, it's better than Budweiser or Coors, and (as an older musician I know once put it) bartenders can recognize it from the shape of your lips in a loud…

Don't forget that the party of the impossibly earnest has one seat!

One advantage of Wheel of Time over A Song of Ice and Fire, as far as TV goes: no protagonists that start the story as young children. In the unlikely event of a decade-long series, they could still plausibly keep their actors without worrying about them aging out of the roles.

I think I made it to book 6. I finished it, having enjoyed my time, and just sort of never checked again. I always kind of hoped that Jordan (who was still very much alive and writing at the time) would end up finishing the series with a scene where a young boy named Randy wakes up in his suburban home from a vivid…

That scene had my friend and I laughing like assholes. It was pretty much the funniest possible thing the movie could have done at the time. I still give the movie credit just for that.

And I honestly think that it's realistic, too. Most people would sensibly run away, but there would probably be a couple of people to choose fight over flight.

Pictures like that always remind me of the line from Watchmen about how some faces just seem to belong to certain times and you never see them after that except in old photos.