And here it is I just made brownies. Eery.

I have the first season on DVD and have watched it several times. For the reasons mentioned above, I never purchased 2 and 3. And, tying it back to the Gilligan's Island comments, I never bought the color seasons of Gilligan since the B&W one is superior (so to speak).

Actually, The Making of Star Trek was written by Stephen Whitfield. Roddenberry insisted on credit (and part of the money). According to Solow & Justman, Roddenberry notoriously took credit for other people's work.

From 1982 - our group was The Byte Busters, but most other groups called us The Byte Bastards.

I hadn't noticed how prevalent 1-point perspective was in Budapest until I watched it the second time.

I'm not saying this was a hoax or prank, but you can tell where the ground will give way before they step off the train.

No love for Philip Seymour Hoffman as Gust Avrakotos in Charlie Wilson's War?

But what am I supposed to drink with my PB&J?

I didn't mean to imply that Bean was a problem but that Cornwell started writing the books in along the lines of the ITV series. As far as ghostwriting, it's been awhile since I read Escape and Fury, but that's how I felt coming away from them. I don't feel that way about his other books, it was just these two. And,…

Bean became the problem with Cornwell's books. As everyone's image of Sharpe shifted to Sean, so did Cornwell's writing. I would almost say that at least the last two of his Sharpe books were ghostwritten.

I keep thinking about writing a screenplay on spec, just to see if it could be done. Maybe that'll be my new spring project.

The Black Company by a large margin. Ever since I first read it in the 80s I've re-read it (and all of the Books of the North) several times. Second would have to be LOTR.

The same thing. The same thing. The same thing.

Background question- if everyone has the infection, then what does being bitten have to do with it? Is it just that such a serious injury will most likely lead to death? I mean, sure, getting your arm hacked off by a katana is one thing, but Bob's injury seemed rather tame in comparison - except of course for the…

Purple hair included...

Shadow of the Torturer is actually one of the few books I've started and not finished. What's the compelling reason I should pick it up again?

It's been so long, I've forgotten. It sounds like you're on the cusp, though.

Dune - I tried reading it several times in the 70s and just couldn't get into it. Then I read somewhere that you have to get past X number of pages and when I did that, I was hooked. Since then I've read all of Herbert's Dune books and even the early volumes from his son.

I'm working on a series of maps for my low-magic fantasy stories.

Having just spent the last year going through the process leading up to, and recovering from, a liver transplant I can say I'm highly skeptical that artificial implantation will be ready within reasonable timeframes.