The sight of a needle going into my skin makes me go all “far and wee” - shallow, racing pulse, clammy skin, vision closing in. I did an old-school allergy screening years ago that involved tiny little subdermal needles and just watching those made me almost pass out.

Just not looking is the biggest key for me.

“thank goodness they didn’t make it a literal hand of God”

Wow, that’ll teach me to multitask - that should have been:
“...comments about how Joss may have treated “small-time stars” DIFFERENTLY from big names”
and
“...everyone described the conditions, though rigorous (long hours) AS LOVING AND FAMILY-LIKE”.
Woof.

I am very curious to hear from anyone in the Firefly cast. I see the comments about how Joss may have treated “small-time stars” from big names, but most of the regulars on Firefly weren’t huge stars; Baldwin had done movies and Ron Glass had played a memorable tv character but for the most part they were all pretty…

As long as you have to bind your Facebook account to an Oculus device, the answer for me is: neither.

As long as you have to bind your Facebook account to an Oculus device, the answer for me is: neither.

No, it was partway up the hill and quite nice.

Amusing note: we were asking the hostess about the building and she said it had been a convent at one point, then (as she politely put it) it had been a “hotel available for rental by the hour...”

We went to Ireland a few years back and spent a few days at a lovely B&B in Cork; one morning we went down for breakfast and my wife asked for porridge. Our hostess Kathleen asked if she’d like Bailey’s porridge; my wife asked what that was? Kathleen replied, somewhat patiently, “It’s porridge with Bailey’s in it?”.

And…

BBC’s 2008 Survivors. Loved the story and characters, and the second season ended on a complete cliffhanger...and just never got picked up again. Ugh.

Before I saw this movie in the theater I read a review that described it as “War of the Worlds” as directed by Irwin Allen.

It set my expectation-meter PERFECTLY.

“Vitamin supplements are somewhere between mostly useless and completely useless.” 

What’s that now?

”If you eat fruits, vegetables, and animal products on any kind of regular basis, you almost certainly have all your bases covered.”

If I recall, Barry actually consulted with Hiaasen (they were working at the same paper when he wrote this).

It’s part of a genre that I think Hiaasen referred to as “South Florida wackos”. See, also, John D MacDonald’s Travis McGee series.

It’s definitely my preferred way of eating oatmeal now - use good steel-cut oats; toast them lightly in a saute pan before cooking; then throw a pat of butter and some kosher salt and fresh black pepper in with it when it’s ready, along with some toasted slivered almonds and crushed walnuts. Mm, mm good!

Gonna have to…

I use pre-cut stew meat for my chili, any time of year. 

Come to Texas and meet scorpions. They’re just like cockroaches, but armed.

Didn’t the initial “Tripping the Rift” short, “Love and Darph”, precede this?

I’ve loved The Stand since I first read it shortly after it came out.

I thought Sean Penn would have made a great Randall Flagg...

Love that song, but this would have been mine:

Years ago I read an article about when it’s time to stop following a show - basically, when you find yourself saying “I don’t care what happens to these characters”. I hit that with Walking Dead many seasons ago (I could go farther and say I actually wanted all the main characters to just die in a fire).

TGP is one of…

The second Halloween we ever took my son trick-or-treating, we got back to the house and told him we were going to watch a Halloween movie that he had never seen, and that he could have a couple pieces of candy. He grabbed a lollipop just as we started Nightmare Before Christmas, and then he sat there unmoving with…

The second Halloween we ever took my son trick-or-treating, we got back to the house and told him we were going to…

My 2019 resolution was to do 10,000 pushups in the year. It’s not particularly ambitious, average of just under 30 a day, but it was more about sticking with it. I just checked off my 7500th pushup this morning - just have to do 25 a day for the rest of the year to complete it.