I haven't watched it either and I'm wondering how Bates would work in the modern era. Location based serial killers like the fictional Bates or real life H.H. Holmes could get away with it for ages because before the information society, it was easy for people to "disappear" either through murder or just because they…

To be fair, the DC area has excellent ethnic food, though. I've lived on both coasts (and the Midwest), but the DC area is pretty special. Most areas are lucky to have a single Ethiopian or Afghani or Cambodian restaurant (if that). We have dozens.

That's very sad — I remember visiting the Trader Vic's there in the 1990s when Tiki was just a weird 1960s throwback. Nowadays, Tiki is back among hipsters and new Tiki bars are opening. If it could have just held on a few years they could have cashed in on the Tiki revival.

Oh, Duck Donuts are spreading and you don't need to go to NC these days — there's one in Rockville, MD (outside DC).

Where I live (DC area) $750k is a pretty normal price for a townhouse.

Angela Lansbury was 37 in The Manchurian Candidate (1962) and was playing the mother of a character played by a 35-year old! Of course, she looked practically the same as she did on Murder, She Wrote.

Arguably Philly was the intellectual center in the 18th century though. Ben Franklin was born in Boston but moved (on purpose) to Philly because that's where all the intellectuals were.

But Superman doesn't exist. Does that mean Bizzaro does? Mind blown.

Would you have thought Matthew Rhys was Welsh?

Those judgy owners were horrible in real life, but I still loved Black Books and Spaced, even though they were kind of anachronisms even at the time.

And not only an investment in money. You'd go to a store in another city and find something you'd been looking for for years.

If you enjoyed it after the thrill of petty theft, just imagine how good it would have tasted after an armed robbery, or murder.

In regard to Ebert's turn-around on Lynch, a very similar thing happened with him and the Coen Brothers. He *hated* their Raising Arizona but was later probably their greatest fan.

Which is an excellent place to meet with Soviet defectors and their family, especially if you have a Vietnamese spy posing as your son who is trying to make friends with the defector's son.

Indeed. They even have clips from the 1970s-1980s Ray Rayner show, which seems to have almost no Net acknowledgement. Ray Rayner sort of ran a talk show for kids, where he would host skits, interview local Chicago people of interest to kids (zookeepers, ice cream store owners, etc.) and showed classic cartoons.

And his birthday is Christmas, so you just *know* that everyone just gives him one gift for both, so it's not like that's a good holiday for him.

Isn't Greg Sestero (lead in Retro Puppet Master) a person we've actually heard of thanks to The Room and The Disaster Artist?

You mean the one that was friends with John Muir, was a skilled amateur naturalist, created the National Parks system, and fought monopolies? TR may have been a Republican (well, before he started his own doomed political party anyway), but before FDR the political parties were kind of reversed from how they are now.

See, if they are clever, the idea won't be that the wall is to keep people in Manhattan (as in the original), but rather to keep people out.

Strange things are afoot there.