That's very ice of you.

I saw Batman & Robin in the theater.

Alternately, how small is his mouth?

From the perspective of someone who hasn't read the books (yet) and went in to the movie theater totally cold, Cromwell's casting worked perfectly. In 1997, for me he was still just the kind and quiet farmer from Babe and the drunken goofus Zefram Cochrane in First Contact, so his big heel turn midway through…

God, yeah, that scene where they're reduced to stealing change out of parking meters speaks volumes about just how glamorous Mob life really is for the rank and file.

Yes to this. And I've lost count of how many times I've adapted "You can't trust Melanie but you can trust Melanie to be Melanie" to fit the situation.

"That's Japan."

A few nights ago, Mrs BlahBlah and I saw Chic and Earth, Wind & Fire at a near-capacity Madison Square Garden. A fan-fucking-tastic concert all around. They've got some dates left in the tour, so go see 'em; you'll be glad you did.

Don't praise Powerthirteen…

Tyrion wasn't in that scene with Jon and Theon, although how he got to the site of the battle is still puzzling anyway.

I think that alone would have been sufficient for Les Claypool to bring him on board.

My big takeaway from The Road, The Book of Eli, Waterworld, and the Mad Max movies is that in the event of a nuclear war, I definitely don't want to be one of the survivors. When the missiles fly, I'll also be up on the roof with a six-pack and pair of sunglasses.

Yeah, I remember some drunken college nights in the mid-90s when we'd all sort of speculate on what kind of towering figure Anakin must have been before The Fall, and the mystic nature of the Force, and what life was like in the Old Republic and how the Jedi fit in, and how awesome Obi-Wan vs Anakin must have been.…

Thanks for that! Now I hope "Name the movie where Christian Bale plays Darth Vader and Joffrey is watching him" comes up during Trivia Night sometime.

It's past their bedtime.

"We work hard, we play hard!"

Yes! I also love the way Rocco imparts two words ("And… cut… ") with so much feeling and thoughtfulness after Homer's impassioned plea to save Poochie. And then the punchline: he ends up killing Poochie off anyway with no explanation.

In the sixth paragraph, O'Neal describes himself as a "nerd," but in the penultimate paragraph, he's somehow become a "dork" instead. Boy, I really hope someone got fired for that blunder.

My 1997 story: I left the US for the first time, and thus got my first exposure to the European music charts and MTV Europe, and it meant hearing stuff like Prodigy, the Chemical Brothers, Tricky, and Massive Attack several months before they hit in the US.

50% of All That You Can't Leave Behind is terrific; unfortunately the other 50% is rubbish.