A four foot rise is pretty worrying if the average elevation of Southeastern Louisiana is about three feet, which is what the article says.

A little harsh to blindfold it though, it probably thinks it's being led off for execution.

Close, but also wrong. That's a Brummie (Birmingham) or West Midlands accent

Sometimes "pure joy" and "this is awesome" are just exaggerated taglines, but this time they're perfectly descriptive. This got a great big smile and a laugh out of me, cheered me right up.

I am fond of MC Frontalot and intrigued by this, so you know what? I shall learn more about this album on the MC Frontalot website. Thanks for the article!

That is definitely better: as Top Gear showed, sticking a propeller on the back risks snapping it off on the boat ramp. Also hydro jets are inherently cooler because jet.

I did like your blog!

Han shot first. I'm sorry George Lucas fell in love with a half-arsed worse version with pointless extra CGI in it, but to me those films don't exist.

BUT WHAT'S THE INEVITABLE, HEAVILY FORESHADOWED TWIST?

I thought it was a deliberate pun? It would need to be some kind of fancy gold soup in order to go into the fuel tank.

'Pored' over the documents, fella. Unless you're trying to tell me an analyst was waterboarding the documents for some reason.

"yeah, i'm not sure why he then kept rolling, but i wasn't there."

It does kind of rely on you already having a small triangular room attached to yours unbeknownst to you, that or a friend with the ability to fold space via psychically manipulating the underlying Calabi-Yau manifold.

I'm guessing she's meant to be Verruca Salt. Terrible cover though.

actually the OP says the squid monster/manhattan change wasn't egregious, and I just skim-read and missed that rather important fact. Oops.

I have to disagree with you; this was a pretty decent adaptation in my opinion, and the change from the squid monster to blaming Dr Manhattan worked pretty well. Would have liked to see the Black Freighter worked in but I'm OK without it because it wasn't necessary for the story.

NO-ONE AND NOTHING CAN RUIN MY APPETITE FOR DELICIOUS BACON!

"23 years without a polio case in the US" means that the vaccines are working.

"Facing down" the prospect of a honey shortage would be staring at it threateningly until it backed off. I think you just mean "facing".