That's a good idea. Buena Vista should buy up genomes/DNA of animals and rebrand them. "The Little Mermaid presents the Cuttlefish" and "DuckTales Brand Red Panda."

Really? I'm still skeptical. Isn't that basically saying, "if you don't like bitter and tart, you've got supertaster powers!" I mean, I dislike about half that list, but I consider myself a mostly not-picky eater — a small handful of things I won't eat and most anything else I'll buck up and deal with if I have…

Is he known as the Pinocchio Lizard because he's made of wood? He doesn't look like he's made of wood.

This is interesting. I've never given much (serious) thought to if I have "supertaster" tendencies. I tend to have a more sensitive (not necessarily stronger, more like "wussier") sense of smell than most people, and I know smell & taste are related but still. It's one of those things... that desire to feel special or…

That should say astonomical immappancy.

Agreed.

Lots of our planets and moons have water. We're just sitting in a good spot to keep it liquid.

I've jumped around in the series — as everybody I know who's read them told me I could, even though it feels weird to do so — so those are the 3 I've read and in that order (actually, I'm about 80%ish through Hydrogen Sonata right now).

Tangentially related at best, but:

Oh you monster. Now I'll be fighting that song internally all day.

Seconded.

I don't know if it counts (for me) as controversial, but the Culture novels have definitely changed the way I view pretty much all far-futurist enterprises— including views on AIs, interspeciesism, megascale engineering, space opera storytelling possibilities, and maybe most of all, what "post-scarcity" means and…

Couldn't be more happy to help. I love a good discussion/debate/argument, but at the end of it all I'd rather leave people with stuff to think about and vice versa than "prove" anybody right or wrong.

Shrugging. Eh, I dunno, I'm a monster? What are you drinking, and can I get you another?

Credit where it's due: Finn is usually the LAZIEST COSPLAY EVER for skinny guys. But this costume goes all out.

Bend those knees, you're a SEXY Pac-Man Ghost, not a lazy jerk Pac-Man Ghost like that orange guy above you. Show me SEXY.

Of all companies, Disney (and less surprisingly, Pixar) seems to be doing a good job of late in its voice casting, splitting the difference between Cash-Grab Stunt Casting and Legitimately Skilled Voice Actor. Sure, Wreck-It-Ralph sounds just like John C Reilly, but John C Reilly can act with his voice. Nobody'd…

I miss that voice. It was so bad and so good all at once.

The exact two I noticed missing: Frank Welker and Peter Cullen.

I'll agree that these days, mostly it's laziness. In the big picture/history of literature and all that it stems from something almost the opposite: all these works exist in a "canon," and if I may whip out my half-an-English-lit-degree for a moment, they speak to each other, they are point and counterpoint and…