Not to mention Dorothy Stratten...

Just looked it up, your right.

Is this referring to a specific gubernatorial candidate or anchor? I can’t recognize jokes anymore.

I agree with you and think that thepeak tv bubble is already bursting because of this.

I had a high school math teacher who thought that Pi was a knock off of Eraserhead and was livid about it

Abbi Jacobson’s art podcast was weirdly more of a “road not taken” than a substitute for waiting. Still it made me feel closer than ever to her.

It mostly felt too poignant for me to have any laugh out loud moments. I don’t really mind, but I hope the feeling is only for one episode. 

This is tragic. Those Darlin’s have been my go to country-punk band. I had no idea she was sick. And really so young!

Isn’t Palpatine Vader’s father courtesy of an Aleister Crowley Moon child like like experiment with the force? Does he need more descendants?

Maybe? Though I have to say Billie Lourde and Carrie Fisher didn’t have the kind of uncanny resemblance where you can’t see them together and imagine them unrelated.

I remember at the time there was that “The Death of Irony” article in Vanity Fair and all sorts of “when will it be okay to laugh again” takes and thinking “we don’t have to change that much.”

Huh, I was 18 and had been reading about Al-Queda and Osama Bin Laden in The New York Times and seeing a story about them on PBS, so while I was shocked, I also didn’t feel like it came out of nowhere the way so many people did. Were the young just more attuned to the possibility?

Of the many infuriating aspects of the country’s reaction to 9/11/01 the way the GOP was able to use it up and shine their macho tough guy act and convince people that they were “better” on terroris is up there. (And of course based in decades of pop culture I was less sensative to before hand.)

There was something in the air that I didn’t appreciate at the time. Like we knew we were distracted and what we had couldn’t last.

Throughout The Wire, the War On Drugs becomes a stand-in for the War On Terror: an endless, winless battle with a multi-headed hydra that’s always ready to crown a new king the second the old one disappears, and whose only potential advances would come through huge, unorthodox policy changes (like the junkie Eden of…

I never saw it, but I know what happened and yeah, I’m surprised it wasn’t written about here.

I took part in anti-war demonstrations at the time. We were so drowned out. And even though I still feel we were right, the way things played out led to the whole “Donald the Dove and Hillary the Hawk” bullshit and I don’t think I’ll be able to forgive a lot of people.

Yes our reaction has been terrible, and we still haven’t made up for how terrible it’s been.

I have to say seeing the Towers in an establishing shot of Lower Manhattan on a Friends rerun touched my sense of mourning in a way that most of the direct discussion at te time could. It was entirely unintentional, but still.

I like a lot of the show, but I’m deeply uncomfortable with the political humor. All the chars are right wing/libertarian. But the frequency with which they come up and there doesn’t seem to be any acknowledgement of the effects these policies can have. They don’t exactly jibe with the plots and that is weird.