Having read all the books first, what's weird is how my perceptions change with the movie. Goblet of Fire (Book 4) is my favorite of the books, because it does the best job of illustrating its themes of responsibility and inevitability. But the movie is just a big, loud mess, with plotlines that no longer make sense because of all the cuts. (and way too little David Tennant)

The next one, Order Of The Phoenix, is my least favorite book, because it just feels like a bridge between the heavy plot machinations of books 4 and 6. But it's my favorite of the movies, for the same reason GoF is my favorite book.

I'm so jazzed for the two Deathly Hallows movies!

Okay, you know what, I'm going to track down everyone who mocked me for being, and I quote "kinda bummed" when Kurt Cobain died, and I'm going to slap the shit out of them.

All this for Billy Mays? REALLY? Humanity, you disappoint me sometimes.

This comic has some of the best facial expressions. Outstanding, Joel!

That's about what my wife did when our new Sims 3-approved video card arrived yesterday. That's why I love the Sims; every time a new Sims game comes out, Mrs. Zilch finally consents to upgrade our computer.

Law N' Order?

or Law and Ordure? Sorry, that one's offal, I know.

I did some work on the Twitter-on-Xbox presentation, and after all the times we had to rejigger and re-encode the video until we had the right avatar for Felicia Day, it's been killing me all week to see those screenshots with the WRONG Feliciatar.

Completely meaningless to everyone, I know, but I thought I'd share my private pain.

The original miniseries, by Kenneth Johnson, holds up surprisingly well. As a wee lad, that actually helped me understand how the Nazis took over Germany. For the six-hour sequel, the Final Battle, they dumped Johnson and a lot of the allegory, but it was still some pretty cool sci-fi action, at least until the "magic space girl" ending.

Avoid the series at all costs.

Nice! I haven't seen Fringe, but I first started recognizing Scullyosis back in the 90s, when Captains Picard and Sheridan both had incidents of "wow, my vision suddenly went hazy and I hallucinated something strange! Oh, but I better not tell the doctor, because he would never believe an alien consciousness is trying to contact me! That would be implausible, despite all the times it's happened!"

As someone who participated in a "line event" for Star Wars episode 1, I fully support you.

Though I always pictured his daughter as some hot, loose hippy chick.