Thanks! Yep, looks good. I have to admit I've preferred Gaiman's more youth-orientated books (e.g. Graveyard and Coraline), and found American Gods a bit of a slog, albeit an enjoyable one.

Is it just fucked for non-US? I just get a zero-length time-code. At least the youtubes has the good grace to inform me when it has no interest in my demographic.

Jesus, I remember all these shows in their original, UK, guise, and frankly they all sucked. Does anything age as badly as sitcoms? I wouldn't mind, but Yootha Joyce was a damn fine actress, but her most enduring legacy is now a third-rate pair of sitcoms.

Well, quite. As a point of order, I don't think globalisation alone is an issue, but wedding it to neo-liberalism was pretty much the death-knell for worker's rights, pay, and, eventually, capitalism itself. It turns out that debt-based consumption is not really sustainable - who'd a thunk it?

Still struggling with the final boss in Doom 2016. It's been nearly 3 weeks now. What can I say? I'm old and my reflexes are shit, and either the spiky columns or glowing floor keep sending me to my death (or if not them, then whatever shit the demon is throwing at me as I try to avoid the former).

I'd say the left in the west has had a wider problem in that it's failed to present an alternative to globalisation and neo-liberalism apart from some at-the-edges tinkering. A progressive social policy is all very well, but it won't play in Peoria, as they say (iirc?).

Raban's "Bad Land" is a good account of part of this, although it specifically deals with the homesteading of the Montana badlands from the early 1900s. The number of farmers who were bankrupt by government-supported pseudo-science and overspending on farm machinery was criminal.

That's not Maisie Williams at 28s, is it?

The Punisher stuff mostly redeemed DD S2 for me. IMHO it's LK that I'm being generous with. Even the first half could only really been have redeemed by a second half of Cotton Mouth being awesome. Or something. I don't know. Even the ninja stuff in DD S2 worked better than whatever LK turned into.

I was more thinking of hits to misses on Netflix Marvel seasons.

Oh well.

Is "surveil" even a word?

That's a good fun fact!

Yeah, but they still couldn't make any sense of the financial system.

Best Trek by far.

She's fine, and so is the film, but 'fine' is as far as it goes, although the action set-pieces are definitely worth the price of admission. My son was watching it for the first time since he was very small, and said "this is pretty good - how come it's not more famous?" And then Phil Collins started singing and he…

It's still 100% better than most Bay car chases. This is partly due to it being in SF - 'downhill' imposes its own geography, so at least you vaguely know where each participant is in relation to other(s).

Coming back from the doctor's, my wife once walked in unknowingly on a conference call between myself and a clinical team at a hospital (I write clinical software). She proudly announced that the nurse had said she had the biggest vaginal cyst they'd ever seen. She was somewhat startled when a voice came from the…

I once chaperoned the young actress from the second film. She was very sweet. That's all I've got.

Oh, a slow, mournful version of a well-known song. That's new.