The New York Times was fastidious in not deadnaming Elliot, which was very frustrating when reading the article. The headline was Elliot Page, Oscar-Nominated ‘Juno’ Start, Announces He is Transgender. “Ellen” was mentioned once, in the second paragraph. But having a headline refer only to the new name as opposed to…

Just want to put in a good word for Johnny Flynn’s music with his band the Sussex Wit. In particular, check out the song “Brown Trout Blues”.

My favorite line in the book is from the Introduction. Vonnegut tells a friend of his he’s working on an anti-war novel, and his friend says “Yeah? Why don’t you write an anti-glacier novel instead?”

I’m a huge Vonnegut fan, but Slaughterhouse Five isn’t even in my top three. (Those would be Cat’s Cradle, Mother Night, and The Sirens of Titan.) That said, the movie version of Slaughterhouse Five is fantastic.

That episode was perfectly OK.

The problem is that for modern-day SNL, that’s as good as an episode gets. I can’t remember the last time I watched an episode and thought Wow, that was great! It’s all sketches that have a premise, and that’s about it. A couple gets words and cliches wrong; a gangster can’t adapt to woke…

That episode was perfectly OK.

The problem is that for modern-day SNL, that’s as good as an episode gets. I can’t remember the last time I watched an episode and thought Wow, that was great! It’s all sketches that have a premise, and that’s about it. A couple gets words and cliches wrong; a gangster can’t adapt to woke…

I haven’t seen pretty much all of them! I’m on the older side, so I’ve seen the older ones: Dawn of the Dead; The Exorcist; The Omen, etc... but anything after (and including) Child’s Play, Saw, and Halloween are hard No!s for me. I just don’t like horror movies.

I’ve definitely experienced the *amnesiac* side effects, but (to the best of my knowledge), never *racist* side effects. I deal with it by *never taking more than one*, even if the first one didn’t work.

True dat!

Philadelphia Story. Just sayin’.

I’m not in a place where I can easily get fennel fronds; in fact, I might not be able to find them at all here. Any thoughts on a substitute ingredient?

It’s been years since I saw this movie, and I don’t remember any details, so maybe I’m remembering wrong... but wouldn’t Matthew Broderick’s character in Election fit this trope?

“I’m the manager of this theater, and I sell popcorn and popcorn accessories!”

I love this show. And I always forget it exists until I’m reminded. Thanks for the reminder.

Happened to me all the time when I visited libraries as a child. Never happened so much in bookstores. And for the record, I’m Californian, not Japanese.

I read the book in my 20s and hated it. I know the book won lots of awards, but it seemed at the time like it was a book you were supposed to appreciate, as opposed to something you could actually appreciate. There’s no way I’d watch the movie.

I’d guess they play that down or eliminate it in the movie.

MOD pizza: it’s ok. Nothing special.

Twelve-year-old me, in 1972, read the 12-page newspaper that comprised the cover of Jethro Tull’s Thick as a Brick over and over again, trying to decipher its seeming inscrutability. 61-year-old me realizes it was just truly inscrutable, but it was fun at the time.

Tangerine Dream: Edgar Froese (1967-2015); Ulrich Schnauss (2017-present).