If this means a return of Owen Wilson (i.e. Early Owen Wilson, the brilliant comic actor in Bottle Rocket and Shanghai Noon), I am so there.

Rudd seems to have come a long way from his "Friends" gig. He's a fellow Kansan, so I'm rooting for him.

I am looking forward to getting in touch with my 14-year-old self, not masturbating three times a day, but rather turning my largest internal organ soft by wallowing in some low-brow comic book fun...

Somebody asked about Blue Valentine (Gromit), with Ryan Gosling, and I notice there's another Gosling film, also out at the end of 2010 in limited release in the US -- a crime drama, "All Good Things." Co-stars Frank Langella and Kristen Dunst. Anyone seen this?

Thanks, Inlarev!

And for all I know, Jeremy may be one of those rare individuals whose brain is more massive than his liver.

While undoubtedly quite the thinker, Aristotle got lots of things wrong. He considered the liver was the seat of our emotions and that it was also the critical organ with respect to regulating the ebb and flow of the blood. The former idea still lingers in many cultures, and is really no less valid than our identifying the heart as the organ of love. A Malay may sing from the bottom of his hati, but he is referring to his liver.

Though Byron was undoubtedly gifted, I don’t think there is much of a correlation between brain size and intelligence. The brain of Neanderthal man was much bigger than that of Homo sapiens, and look what happened to them. Apparently, it is not the only organ for which size is not everything.

As well as having a large brain, Byron was reported to have had an even more remarkable penis. A parson viewing Byron’s exhumed corpse likened him to a pony. However, this may have been a result of the embalming process and not a true reflection of the Romantic poet’s living endowment. Regardless of its size, there is no doubt that he knew how to use it.

I seem to remember reading about famous autopsies where famous brains were weighed....and Lord Byron's was over 2 kg. (don't know what the poet's liver weighed, so will leave that to more serious students of history...)

Over 9,000 Murders by Gun in US; 39 in UK

Number of Murders, United States, 2009: 16,204

Number of Murders by Firearms, US, 2009: 9,369

Number of Murders, Britain, 2009: 1,201
(Since Britain’s population is 1/5 that of US, this is equivalent to 6,005 US murders)

Number of Murders by firearms, Britain, 2008: 39
(equivalent to 195 US murders)

The international comparisons show conclusively that fewer gun owners per capita produce not only fewer murders by firearm, but fewer murders per capita over all. In the case of Britain, firearms murders are 48 times fewer than in the US.

A lovely review of Another Year by Roger Ebert. It is not an unrestrained rave, but rather, like the film, it is simple, organic, gentle, human and, more than satisying; nourishing.