Amen brother. I keep telling everyone that the first manufacturer that brings to market a Civic sized car (or CRV sized CUV) that gets 300 miles to a charge and costs $30K or less will have buyers lining up at its doors. People do not need 0-60 times in less than 6 seconds (many of my friends who have electric cars…

The trick to saving money is to skip the hotels and stay at camp sites every night. 

I’ve always wanted to drive up the coast. By the time I have enough money saved up to do it, the damn road will have completely fallen into the sea.

wow it’s almost like there’s still a place for quality pop culture journalism with an informed and friendly commentariat! who knew!

I don’t know that I’m going to watch this show, but this review was much better than some of the stuff that appears on this website these days. Your description of New Orleans (as someone who spends a lot of time there and whose spouse is from there) is really evocative, and your description of Espisoto as an actor is…

Another amazing episode.

You make some good points. There’s a lot of bad improv. Good improv feels organic, so you can’t tell it from what is scripted. But bad improv draws attention to itself. You can tell they’re doing it. It’s why I can’t stand Joe Swanberg’s films, because he relies so heavily on improv for dialogue out of a misguided…

Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter!

Is it just me or does Murphy seem to go out of his way to look as harmless as possible between shoots?  Which makes sense given I’d cross the street to avoid most of his characters.

“In the deep, dark hills of eastern Pennsylvania"- wait. 

Maybe it’s like cilantro where it tastes completely awful to a lot of people, but I can’t imagine disliking dill. Salmon, potato salad, not to mention nearly the entirety of both Greek and Polish cuisine.

Broken clocks and all that.

Counterpoint: Dill is wonderful and people probably shouldn’t take life advice from the founder of a new-age, snake oil company with a corporate ethos that essentially boils down to: “If you want a good life, then make sure you’re born wealthy.”

Or you know, now. The Japanese even more so than the West because they are even more paranoid of immigrants and have only a tiny percentage of them. Which is a problem for them as they have a bigger percentage of elderly people and nobody to take care of them. They even have a word for elderly people who die alone in…

Definitely. I think the difference is that the Japanese seem much more aware that he is trying to use them than he is of being used by them. Both of them see the relationship as transactional, but the Japanese seem to have a more realistic view of what is going on. It may just be that they have all the advantages -…

I mean, what you’re describing is a character arc. He started off that way and it’s still showing glimmers, but the entire point of the book (and series) is that, over time, he slowly sheds that arrogance and appreciates, respects, and participates in that culture and society.

If John Blackthorne, 1600s English pilot,…

I pretty much agree except that he isn’t really endearing or lovable. He’s just a bigoted European full of unearned arrogance assuming that these people are savages because they aren’t white, English speaking, protestants. He considers the Portuguese to be only a small step above them.  Yes, he knows a few things they…

Shotwell should get all the credit.  She is the reason for SpaceX’s success.

It sure is.

(Clapping) All for it, man. All for it. Fucking bust up the fucking paradigm. Bend that paradigm over and just... Because that’s what it’s gonna take, man, to get eyeballs to the wall, man. T0 get those fuckers up there on the 99th floor to fucking wake up out of their doldrums. This is good, this is good, we need to…