Your best singing with a friend is to “Yer So Bad”. For most of us, it’s downhill from here.

Mine watches BBC America. I think this Halloween he wants to go as either a Klingon or the Doctor.

My band does three of his songs - “Breakdown”, “Mary Jane’s Last Dance”, and “The Waiting”. After playing them I’d always have a big smile on my face.

For guitar players and song writers, Tom Petty probably ranks right up there with Buddy Holly for songs that were easy to learn but sounded more complete than 99% of the over-produced music that’s out there now. The real reason for all of that we can take from “Into The Great Wide Open” when he sings “The papers said…

There’s a southern accent, where I come from
The young ‘uns call it country
The yankees call it dumb

I’ll admit I sent in a spec script for Voyager, got to pitch ideas over the phone three times, and got shot down each time.

For a show about technology and the development of personal computing, this is one of the more human shows I’ve ever seen. It goes slow and curtails itself when other shows would go for the bombastic, and it has such control over its events that they seem more true to life than they way these events are portrayed on…

He’s, what - leaving on a jet plane? Don’t know if he’ll be back again?

Some other magazine’s satire of Playboy had a too on-the-nose Shel Silverstein poem, of which I can remember the last few lines:

Yeah, all the Song of Solomon is missing is the bawm-wamma-whah-whah soundtrack.

Not just a rich businessman, but the guy who owns Hostess, the prepackaged cake manufacturer.

Not sure how to do this with Kinja, but...

It’s episodes like this one that make me realize how much I’m going to miss this show; the nearest example I match it to is Mad Men - it’s layered with little explaining or recapping during the episode itself, and it trusts that the people watching it are functional adults.

Humor. It is a difficult concept.

When it comes to this episode, I kept thinking about the DS9 episode “Equilibrium”, where it’s discovered more members of the Trill can be joined than their Symbiosis Commission lets on, which had allowed the Dax symbiont to be placed in a host who was mentally disturbed.

Quark? Nah, let’s forget that.

Um, Moore was only on Voyager for a few weeks in the first season. He said it wasn’t the gritty show that he was sold on. If Voyager had atrocities, Moore wasn’t responsible for them.

While everyone’s tortures were interesting - except Eleanor’s, who’s uckily saddled with a meathead who goes to the gym at the drop of a shirt - Tahani’s made me cackle with glee. Short soul mate? Small house? Discovering why Crocs have holes? Absolute perfection. I could see a whole episode of her trying to deal with…

And I thought I was a smartie for figuring it out. Oh, well.

The T-2s broke apart as well. The Pendleton Disaster (portrayed in the movie The Finest Hours) took place off of Cape Cod in 1953, when two T-2s broke apart within hours, and only one, Fort Mercer, could radio for help and got the lion’s share of the rescue force, as Pendleton did its best to keep afloat despite…