I think Hamilton has definitely blown Mad Men out of the water in terms of ratio of attention paid to it by major publications to number of actual people who have seen it.

With his whole typewriter thing, sounds a lot more like a nice qwerty guy, amirite?

Few things make me angrier than excessive photography/filming at concerts. When I saw Father John Misty last year, he had a sweet neon sign behind the band that said "No Photography." I think every venue should just have this up by default. Here's a picture of it: https://img.washingtonpost….

The exact ending could have worked really well if there had been elements in the plot leading up to it about Sandy feeling trapped in the conformity and puritanical expectations of mainstream 50s culture, which would have been very legit feelings. Then her breaking free of that would have felt earned. But there was…

Yeah, but good luck pinpointing exactly when it did.

I always thought that was really weird in California that you regularly saw cars with no license plates. I don't know of any other states where it works like that - certainly not on the East Coast at least.

It depends on the car. It's much less the case for economy cars which don't depreciate nearly as much (by absolute amount or percentage) as luxury cars do. And if a cheaper car has very good resale value (which I won't bother to look up whether golfs do), then it can be pretty much a wash.

Checked imdb. There is, for an insane reason, no credited character named Quint. I mean, come one, it can be some sailor with no lines, so its not distracting, just put his name in the credits. Opportunity missed, Hollywood.

It's also worth pointing out that most of the music in the movie isn't blues, strictly speaking, but 60s soul music (half of the Blues Brothers' band were members of the Stax house band).

I'd say Blues Brothers holds up way way better than Animal House. The jokes are funnier, the music is legitimately good, and it's even more anarchic.

You mean Rhea?

Agreed

That's probably what the crop of male Lindsays born in the 50s and 60s were thinking in the early 80s.

Lindsay skyrocketed in popularity starting in the mid 70s, peaking in 1984 as the 36th most popular girls name (my wife Lindsay was born in 1983 right at the crest). Prior to 1974, it wasn't even in the top 1000 names, so there's no data for how many there are. Nowadays, it's way down in the 600s in popularity. …

Wow, you've sure put a lot of thought into that.

Fragmentation is fine, I don't mind hopping around services to find what I want (as long as its relatively easy to search across platforms). The problem is that many of the services are subscription only, rather than a la carte for what I want to watch, which puts up a high bar of entry (signing up for $15 per month…

Go out and see it. It's great!

Silver rings your butt! Dem's washers!

Give "Ride the High Country" a watch. It came a few years before "Wild Bunch," and it's a nice transition between the traditions of the genre and the way he'd completely blow it up with "Wild Bunch." And the ending is so fucking good.

I got screwed by that myself, though not as royally. I tied for 2nd when I was on, but I only got the $1,000 third prize instead of the $2,000 second prize, because the guy I tied with had more money than me going into Final Jeopardy. I assumed I was going to get $2,000, but was disappointed a few weeks later when I…