now i'm imagining the incredible shitstorm that might have been if Yeoh had done all her dialog in Chinese with subtitles or slight delay as the universal translator overwrote all her dialog until the inevitable technological breakdown in the middle of a crisis, at which all of her dialog would just be Chinese or, i…

i really enjoyed all of the books by S.D. Perry but kinda lost interest during the Mission Gamma series… also, i tried getting back into the series with the Typhoon Pact novels but couldn't even get through the first book and the focus on the Mirror Universe, which was fun for maybe two or three episodes of DS9 and…

what about mini-skirt uniforms and beehive hairdos for the ladies, tho? they looked good on Dax, is all i'm sayin'.

i might have been predisposed to looking upon the Millennium series favorably because i really, really enjoyed the first (well, only) Carl Hamilton translation i read, Enemy's Enemy - like Larsson, the author Jan Guillou was a Swedish journalist before branching off into fiction.

[A mother, talking to her son]
"I know you will never entirely comprehend this, Raymond, but you must believe I did not know it would be you. I served them. I fought for them. I'm on the point of winning for them the greatest foothold they would ever have in this country. And they paid me back by taking your soul away…

the book this will be based off of was written by a different author (David Lagercrantz) after Stieg Larsson died and came out in, i think, 2015?

that would have been a nice curve ball, if Eric had started dating her back in NY and was trying to keep it on the downlow from Dev after she recognized him from Eric's big/little profile pic, maybe after they'd gotten a little more serious and Eric knew Dev was hung up on… erm, the woman Dev winds up fixating on.

i dunno - i'm 6'5 and have hit my head on plenty of doorways and stairwells and basement ceilings/pipes, etc. i just sort of assumed that it was thickening up my skull and making me more impervious to harm at some point… of course, that was before i read the book about the NFL and traumatic brain injury, which left me…

seriously? i thought it was hilarious when the mom bustles over and angrily signs that she's here with her kids and they both know ASL, then cuts to the little kids chasing each other around while chanting (and signing) The Word mom is so upset about.

gets even better in future episodes. is there a listing anywhere? because i'd love to track some of those songs down.

right? it's as if strangling, slitting the throat of and beating to death some pure breed dog would have been a real tragedy but, since it was only a fuckin' mutt, well… boys will be boys!

don't know if you're familiar with John Carpenter's The Thing but (if you are) i'd be curious to hear how you think H8ful 8 synches up as a sorta homage to The Thing. (if you aren't familiar with it, jeez, i don't even know.)

uhm, Snopes has that listed as "RUMOR", please.

wait, are you saying the Governor of Arkansas trained his daughter to stop in her tracks and shit her pants whenever he rang a bell?!

shit, not even with your dick strapon, dude lady.

speaking from total ignorance, why is tortellini more difficult than, i dunno, ravioli? my guess would be the relative size of the finished pasta and the fact you have to sorta bend the tortellini into a circle, increasing the chance of the uncooked pasta cracking or busting open but that is only a guess.

hah! i do this from time to time with John Carpenter's THE THING because it is a movie i've basically memorized from watching so often and everyone who i've told this to thought i was fuckin' crazy. well, the joke is on them! because i learned how to say "Hej, Swedewah!" by watching the film in Swedish. (which, i…

Did the premiere make anyone else want to up and move to Italy ASAP?

Ray Wise also plays a dude on Voyager who hated the Borg and tried to, uh, "trick" Janeway and the crew.

so if the gum was that stuff that tasted like black licorice, lemme tell you something: i visited Australia about 10 years ago now and the people i was staying with offered me some candy while we were visiting the mall. i'm like, What is it? "Chocolate-covered black licorice." ooooh, i don't really like black lic-…