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And, in the interests of exercising your new heart, our state (which is indivisible from us) has decided that everyone should be treated.

Grud bless.

Just about to go in for my angiogram, after a very cheerful conversation with the angiogram man in which he explained all the ways it could go slightly, moderately or catastrophically wrong.

An acquaintance had to get circumcised. For medical reasons. At the age of thirty-ish.

Apprehensive, he turned to the internet for reassurance. Listed amongst the potential side effects: bleeding, discomfort, DEATH.

Very glad to hear you're well. One convincing argument for the state.

Conversely, I was never a huge fan of Robo Hunter but think the later stories like Slaying of Slade are much better than the early ones.

I'll sit on the fence with a 3/5. The good bits (mostly Luke) were really good but other parts were a bit of a slog.

If you want to compare it to other films I saw last year, it was better than Atomic Blonde but not as good as XXX3.

I wonder what the record for time elapsed between letters being published is?

This was definitely calculated at some point but I'm not going to be the mug who tries to wade through all the old threads to find it.

A dubious claim to multiple letterhood here!

Sadly it seems that no Hallam is yet to have more than two letters published. Care to aim for the hat-trick, McGurk76?

Ursula Le Guin.

Ah, sad news. Tordelback will surely be along with an appreciation but I can't imagine there will ever be a better writer who chooses the genre.

What in earth is the matter with these people?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B00RWPR8CE/ref=dp_olp_all_mbc?ie=UTF8&condition=all

Nobody actually buys at this price.

Basically one big seller puts the decimal point in the wrong place and all the others either copy that price or base theirs on a percentage discount from the maximum.

How I remember the heady days when copies of the last volume of The Losers went like this. I was buying them from Forbidden Planet in Glasgow for a tenner and eBaying them for 40 quid a pop in the time it took to walk to the post office!

Can't remember the details but I think the editor at the time was a mate of Harry Harrison so they knocked up the adaptations over a few pints and got Carlos to draw the hell out of it.

Are there any other 2000AD strips which have been adapted directly from books?

Well, I think that depends if you mean official or unofficial.

Where Hawkmonger these days? He reads it I'm sure.

There's a big Humble Bundle out there at the moment.

SMF?

SMF = Simple Machines Forum.

That's not what Prince says.

Just WOW!

I need some suggestions of where I can hear new music.

I don't like radio as a rule, but used to listen to Peel obviously. There's no real alternative around that I can find, apart from maybe Marc Riley on Radio Six, and that's almost always shit.

Tom Ravenscroft on Radio 6 on Friday night. He's a terrible presenter but I never fail to hear at least one new track that interests or even excites me. Maybe not quite as eclectic as his dad but has similarly wide-ranging tastes.

Could be somewhere to to slip in the stories from the past few years Sci-Fi Specials, et al.

I assume there will be another Image one along soon...

Here's hoping. In the meantime: Top Shelf.

Fortunately, I don't like LoEG so I think I can resist this one for a while...