So Trump can float a massive tax cut for the rich, Bush can float two incredibly costly wars and a tax cut, Republicans can spend all they want without being asked how to pay for it. We only ask how to pay for it when Democrats have ideas?

“All of Star Trek” is a fun way to end this list, but “Yesterday’s Enterprise” is the ultimate alternate reality episode in this vein. It’s so effing good.

Hoechlin’s all right. I love his intro in his first appearance in Supergirl, especially when set to John Williams music:

I thought it was fine. They clearly went for something a bit broader in terms of the nostalgia, more Steven Speilberg instead of the really dark Stephen King vibe from seasons past.

Maybe we deal with the children dying at the border in cages and concentration camps, then we can figure out automation.

I’m not sure “double dumbass on you” qualifies as “rampant” cursing, but point taken.

That’s how I felt when my wife and I watched it. Super slow and boring, but the craft was wonderful.

At that meeting, I was so ready for them to decide to form an anarcho-syndicalist commune and take turns acting as sort of an an executive officer of the week.

No he isn’t, but that’s not quite the issue. According to my wife who follows this, Charles said no to Tati’s vitamins, eschewing ALL vitamins, saying he didn’t feel comfortable pushing any vitamin supplements on his younger teen audience. And then he did it with someone else’s vitamins.

According to my wife who follows this stuff, the problem wasn’t necessarily that Charles promoted the other brand, it was that Charles refused to promote Tati’s brand because “I don’t want to market supplements to my teen audience” - a moral stance - and then went ahead with another sponsor and marketed that stuff to…

A fair point. I would argue that the black and white look adds a bit of magical realism to the whole enterprise, not just aesthetic nostalgia.

While it is true that good black and white needs to be lit and designed for black and white, today’s HDR cinema cameras give you such versatile footage that it can be colored in post to create a lot of the look you need. Maybe not quite as great as doing it from the start, but pretty great either way. The reason…

The difference is when you order pizza and the pizza delivery person does this, the company is held liable because they trained that person and hired them and that person is the representative of the company. With Doordash and other gig economy services, the person is an independent middle man and the Doordash app is…

Maybe if they didn’t shoot the show so dark someone would have caught it in post or something.

Miyoko Butter is truly incredible, but it is expensive. Thankfully, Miyoko Schinner herself has a cookbook (The Homemade Vegan Pantry) where she tells you how to make it yourself at a fraction of the cost! My wife makes tons of it, it’s super easy to do, so we always have Miyoko Butter around.

The score for this episode was also pretty effing great. Shades of John Williams and James Horner (especially his work on Wrath of Khan) but done in very pleasing ways that weren’t soundalikes. Seth MacFarlane has always been an advocate for real orchestras recording his scores, even on Family Guy. He famously spends…

Disney is gonna be so cheap it’s an easy add-on. I currently pay for Netflix, Hulu, and CBS All Access (love me that Trek) and I think we’re gonna go for Disney as well. We have Prime but I’m seriously considering dropping it, except I do love The Tick. And we sub to Google Play Music and that includes Youtube so I…

Yeah a company I worked for that did a LOT of online conferencing switched from WebEx to Zoom and it’s soooo much better. Everything works really well and there are very rarely any hiccups or anything.

I desperately need Die Fledermaus in this version. He was my favorite. Chairface Chippendale would be amazing too. They already did a variation of Eastern Bloc Robot Cowboy, which I enjoyed.

How weird. I’ve thought for a while that Donald Trump as President totally reminds me of my divorced dad. It’s weird because my dad is nothing like Trump - he’s supremely intelligent, classy, loves art, he has his blind spots and can sometimes be a royal pain in the butt, but he’s overall a good father and has…