Ah, is that what it's called?

What is that weird grumpy face that Trump pulls? Did someone once make the mistake of telling him it looked presidential?

I know. For my part, I shall raise a glass in his honour later, and then tumble down some stairs.

"the wishes—seven of them total, two more than your typical monkey’s paw"

Apart from dead dad, I guess it's Bob Dylan. However, that's mainly because, apart from them, I can't think of any other performer I've seen more than once.

I sort of understand why Trump won (more accurately, I understand why Clinton lost), and it's not all bad news. Many who voted for Trump also voted for Obama afaict, so while simple, in-your-face racism might explain part of it, I don't think that's the real story (and certainly not the whole story).

Some of the smelliest cheeses are fairly mild to taste. I'm never sure if it's just that one's olfactory nerves have been shot-gunned or something else.

That's not my understanding. They do want to try out a lot of different stuff, some of which will be risky, and they fully expect to have to cancel a fair-sized proportion of it. So, it's not that they cancelling risky shows - they're cancelling shows that didn't find an audience.

Well, it's worth watching the show. As the review says, Dracula, in this, is not exactly evil in the first place - more chaotic-neutral - and is further 'reformed' by his relationship with a human. The church fucks that up.

I recall a lurid gothic film (almost certainly with Vincent Price in it), where a character says something like "The greatest swordsman in France does not fear the second greatest - he fears the worst, because he cannot know what such a man might do."

That's an episode of the TV series.

Lot's of vague signifiers to issues facing black americans, without actually engaging with them ("Oh look, a hoodie just like Trayvon Martin's"). To give some examples:

I'm now genuinely curious as to how they think gravity works, because a flat earth implies a fixed absolute direction. Are there other flat earths in their cosmology, or is the earth unique?

There's a great early Alan Moore run on Captain Britain.

Just nominate a decent, actual left-wing candidate, ffs. Over here, we've just given the Blairite moderates a well-deserved kick in the teeth, and have a decent chance of a genuinely left-wing parliament after the next election. Stop swallowing all this "only moderates can win elections" bullshit - moderates are now…

Just went to the latest last night. Lots of fun. My only advice would be that it's well worth sticking around for the final post-credit scene rather than planning to watch it later on youtube. It's a great joke that would lose almost everything in translation…

I'm more concerned with his hair.

Yeah. Alfre Woodward with more time to develop the Mephistophelian relationship with Theo Rossi would have been a much more interesting basis for the back-half. Diamondback killed the show dead.

Well, imho obviously, but I'll defend both adjectives.

"set in 1995, for no other apparent reason"