But women are totally okay using the classic whine "all the good guys are taken or gay?"

The first thing I thought of was the poster for the 1976 "Alice, Sweet Alice", an early example of a slasher film, which freaked me out as a 6 year old. I'm glad to see that it made the list in the linked article and I wasn't alone in being traumatized.

Well, I live in California these days, but originally in the Door County area, presumably near where Pam is supposed to be from, since they flew into Green Bay. Yes, it's not a metropolis, but you'd be more likely to find a quaint bread and breakfast in the era than a grain elevator.

As someone from Wisconsin, I'd be offended how they make it look like Hicksville, but then I remember the 'Archer' team is from Georgia, so…

Indirectly. The modern Rosicrucians are a breakaway group of Aleister Crowley's "Thelema" cult. L. Ron Hubbard used to be into Thelema as well until he had a falling out with his friend the rocket scientist and mystic Jack Parsons (and ran off with Parson's girlfriend as well). Then he denounced Crowleyism before…

Well, they would have made a big noise about it anyway. Like how they like to remind people that besides Jews, gays, and gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses were sent to camps by the Nazis too.

The Squid and the Whale is basically my life, ignoring that I didn't live within 1000 miles of NYC, but yeah, that's my Baumbach moment.

Actually, I think the current consensus is it is 2009, but that's a bit like the "A Christmas Story" fans arguing whether it is set in 1939 or 1940. But it would be a 2008/2009 where 9/11 never happened, and the biggest worry was Quebec separatists

It is, but it is *such* a 1990s book — the idea that without the USSR to counter it, America would just get more and more powerful, even annexing Mexico and Canada, even if DFW brings up why that might not be a good idea. But now we're kind of back to the 1970s ennui where we fear that America is in decline.

Really? I really liked the book — that, and "A Canticle for Leibowitz" were pretty much the only SF on the official reading lists — because they were about nuclear war, which was a big topic at the time.

Exactly. Also, does the scenario actually make sense anymore? Nuclear war isn't exactly a likely catastrophe these days.

It's a pity that the "Z for Zachariah" movie doesn't seem that great. I'm old enough to have been in middle school in the Cold War and I remember reading the book then and finding it excellent but haunting. It's weird that they would make a movie of it *now* though. It's pretty much a product of its time, with the…

Is "hostagyness" a thing? What is it from? Google seems to be no help in this.

Involving an African antelope?

Malory: This is a Central Asian, male-dominated, xenophobic puppet state whose dictator changed the words for bread and Friday to his dog's name.
Cheryl: Gerpgork.
Malory: Yes, gerpgo—…how did you know that?
Cheryl: Oh my god, how did I know that?

You are missing the best part of that line — "It looks like human DNA — but it's missing two chromosomes at the end". Not only would it be impossible to know from such a short sequence if it is human or not, the screenwriters demonstrate that they have no idea what a chromosome is.

Kim ll Sung based his cult after Stalin's, not the Japanese (whom he hated and was deeply involved in the resistance movement in WWII). Later on in the 1960s he began to incorporate ideas taken from Maoism and traditional Confucianism — his "Juche" philosophy is basically a mix of Confucianism and Maoism.

Er no. One of the reasons I'm glad the embargo is ending is because it will finally end that stupid argument. The problem is a lack of a market economy. Even China and Vietnam figured out in the end that was what was holding them back.

"And I would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for these meddling kids and their insane, but surprisingly detailed conspiracy theory!"

In the sciences we have basically the same issue with pre-meds rather than pre-law being the obnoxious entitled ones