That never happened. He always wrote at that pace, but in the early days, his publisher would limit themselves to one book a year because that was the industry standard. Which didn’t last long - he was already frequently publishing two novels a year in the early ‘80s.

I thought 11.22.63 was his late-career masterpiece personally

In this case, I think it was keeping broadcast rights cheap. T&J were (to me) the inferior option compared to classic Bugs/Roadrunner etc., but they most definitely survived as one of the older aired cartoons much further than their counterparts.

It also deserves a nod for Best Supporting Performance by a Sandwich

Figueras is an anti-hero the same way Jerry Lundegaard is an anti-hero.

It was watching the western Bad Girls and 12 Monkeys that I got a crush on Madeline Stowe.

I consulted lists of movies from the late 70s and I know I saw The Deep and I can certainly appreciate the still images from that film now but I don’t recall having that kind of reaction as an 11 year old. But I clearly remember the comparitively demure Annie Potts in Corvette Summer, released a year later. Just goes…

GEENA DAVIS; I loved her so much at 12, perfectly coinciding with my (belated) watching of a lot of non-puppet, non-cartoon, non-comedy movies for the first time. (Not that A League of Their Own and Hero were exactly noncomedic.)

She’s very charming in this—and she married the director! 

I feel like the Robin Hood thing must have resulted in a bunch of schoolyard crushes, because one of my weirdest memories is another kid talking about getting to watch White Sands starring MEM, and basically claiming (without me really realizing this was what…

Yeah, Pfeiffer’s clearly studied at the Charlize Theron Hot Blonde Academy of Aging.

I think it’s also a bit of a snake-eating-its-own-tail situation, where being criticized by trans people and their allies makes her upset and defensive, and this just reinforces whatever crap she’s reading on TERF websites about the evils of trans activists. And every time she says something she gets criticized more,…

It can be a little clunky, but at least in this episode it was important for Will to hear these things from someone else, outside of his own problems.

Thanks for the book recs. Just ordered both. 

Conscious fundamental particles of the universe you can only access and be one with if you put your mind a certain way.

“guided” is not the right word.

It was definitely a comparison between what the son did and what the father did. It was very similar (missing things, panicky mistakes).

Mustache = racist.

I was not inclined to watch or like The Crown anyway, but seeing Hot Margaret Thatcher stills everywhere suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks.

Margaret Thatcher makes a lot more sense as a person if you pretend her back story is that she had an affair with a Scottish doctor in Uganda and had to flee Idi Amin after he killed her husband.

I feel like they kind of did Miloti dirty because instead of it getting a huge, theatrical release where tons of people could see just how great she is, they put her on one of the lesser streaming channels where less people would see how great she is. Because she is great (she has, in fact, been pretty great in…