I don’t have any problems getting the outside of my windshield clean, it’s the inside that won’t come clean. I use what seems like gallons of windex and paper towels and it just stays yucky and streaky. It’s like the glass is impregnated with grease or something. This thing unfortunately doesn’t look like it would be…

Max von Sydow in the Schwarzenegger “Conan the Barbarian”. Sadly they left out the “Lions ate him?” line.

Salsa Lizano from Costa Rica - I use it on everything. Great on eggs and especially avocados. I’ve got a chili recipe that uses a generous amount - nom! Slight sweet and smoky.

Gerry Lopez and John Milius surfed together, that’s how.

Completely disagree on the humor and preferring Destroyer...what I loved about Barbarian was that it WASN’T campy, it didn’t go for the goofy laughs - it was arguably one of the only sword and sorcery movies to take itself seriously instead of copping out and apologizing for the genre by making it campy. The set and…

So…we know nothing, about Jon Snow?

Three words: “lithe, opaque nose”. Lithe. Opaque. Nose.

I wouldn’t argue with anyone who said it’s not one of the “greats” but still one of my favorites:

Okay, I thought Patton Oswalt was being overly dramatic with his ETEWAF essay - but damn if this isn’t proof.

I’m sorry if this has been stated more eloquently already in other comments, but...

I love this. However I still don’t, at a fundamental level, understand how a needle moving side to side - even a whole lot - can replicate the sound of a full orchestra playing Stravinsky. Or a band with guitars, drums, bass, and a singer. How does this needle movement translate into high-resolution music? How do it…

Childhood’s End was the first book I remember reading and feeling like I’d really been exposed to some adult concepts - some really high-level stuff.

At the risk of exposing my Tolkien pedantry, that map scene in Two Towers bugged me, only because the map does not show Minas Morgul, the Tower of Sorcery - the major city in opposition to Minas Tirith! Who the heck drew that map?

I am conflicted by the fact that you wrote "puss" but I'm pretty sure you meant "pus", which means I'm thinking about both at the same time. Thanks a lot.

I have to admit that for all the poignancy of that line, it really struck me as historically anachronistic - in a world like this, parents would be burying their children all the time. Whether it was war or disease, it would be amazingly common.

Fez and Minecraft are my standards but I've also been listening to Frozen Synapse a lot, and have been known to chill out to the Aquaria soundtrack. Jim Guthrie's work on Sword & Sworcery is really diverse but a lot of fun. All three of the Portal 2 albums are great. And I'll still fire up Guild Wars 1 and Myst and…

I’ve been fascinated by the Chernobyl disaster - I think it would make a really fantastic film in the right hands. Everything about it has the trappings of a disaster film, except of course it really happened. I’ve imagined in my head the scene where three engineers put on diving gear and went into the bubbler pool to…

They did briefly show this in the same scene in the movies, though it's easily overlooked. It was the one elf-wanking bit that didn't bother me.

"Legolas watched them for a while with a smile upon his lips, and then he turned to the others. `The strongest must seek a way, say you? But I say: let a ploughman plough, but choose an otter for swimming, and for running light over grass and leaf or over snow - an Elf.'
With that he sprang forth nimbly, and then Frodo…

I hear you - my fiancee will let the cats lick our plates and bowls clean with no concern ("they're just going to get washed anyway"), which grosses me out - but I don't have a problem letting the cats drink directly from the faucet, which she thinks is horrifying.