On top of that, I always imagine being famous must be like being caught between two people constantly shouting - one sycophantic praise, the other horrible insults - in your face all the time. I'm not sure you can blame people for finding that hard to deal with.

We need to treat people with addiction problems better, full stop. The famous and the non-famous ones. Unfortunately, it's a fairly intractable problem.

He was in a plane that fell out of the sky, yet here he still is.

Congratulations!

Good luck!

Oh, fuck you, Disqus.

Finally finished season 2 of Mr Robot, which was great, though I probably shouldn't have binged the last four episodes in one sitting.

Just wait until they're done unpacking and start putting up shelves. In my building, someone in another flat drilling a hole in the wall sounds like the third world war, it's awful. And putting up shelves requires a whole lot of holes…

Ouch! Hope you get some proper treatment soon, or it magically eases off by itself (back pain is weird like that, in my experience, but yours sounds worse than any I've ever had).

I've had one of those "no time for pop culture" weeks. I do not like these weeks.

Finished Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky sometime last week. It was pretty good, with some really interesting concepts, but sometimes a little too… simplistic? Maybe because otherwise it would have been much, much longer. Also, why did it have to be spiders? Why?

Is that song in the movie? This thing already looks like QVC in space, but the music is actively destroying what little appeal it had left.

This looks wonderfully insane. I'm in!

Try this: http://eachvideo.com/watch?…

which led me to wonder why the hell they couldn't have left his accent alone

Sounds like you're in a pretty shitty place right now…

*big rumbly CGI scowl*

Went to see Doctor Strange. It was fine and all, though a bit thin on plot especially in the back half; and Benedict Cumberbatch did a decent job, no quibbles there.

I'm struggling with the notion that they wrote them off AoS at all before Most Wanted was 100% in the bag. You'd think they'd be more careful about accidentally marooning the best part of their show.

Thing is, the sections with the spiders are really interesting and well thought-out - they're not used for cheap thrills, there's a very good reason why they're there. But they're still spiders…