And Trinette mentioning that Capone died of tertiary neurosyphilis! That he died of syphilis (in prison, so they were both right) is fairly common knowledge (and realistically more so when it was a recent event in 1947), but to be so precise about the actual diagnosis cracked me up for some reason.

Indeed — cyborgs walk among us today — anyone with a pacemaker or implanted insulin pump is a cyborg!

Indeed (I live there now). As Sarah Vowell wrote in one of her books, "I don't know whether Maryland is off beat or just off putting."

But what about the poor little Maryland boy who just wants to get covered in spiders and instead gets an actual bootleg cartridge of a not very good video game?

But will he write him a good letter of recommendation?

But that's exactly what I'm talking about. The 400-600AD period is rather murky. But the normal medieval depiction of Arthur, with feudalism and castles and knights in plate armor clearly belongs in the high middle ages which we know a lot about.

You must really like Michael Bolton!

Actually, having the Nazi character based on Flynn has to do with an unauthorized biography that claimed he was a Nazi sympathizer. And a bisexual — which at the time of publication was more scandalous.

He learned it from interning with Ed Wood. The guy had sort of plan involving grave robbing — it was out of this world!

Which is odd, because Dinklage's breakout role in The Station Agent had him play a train enthusiast that just happened to be a little person — it wasn't the defining feature of the character.

What about Marti Noxon, producer and scriptwriter for Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Her name often gets autocorrected to Marty Nixon.

Of course it is. Where else would Bojack film the powerful scene from Secretariat, even if it ended up being cut when it got retooled as a feel-good movie?

Yeah, the problem with the typical medieval Arthur is that we *know* all the medieval kings — there isn't an empty spot to put him in. It would be like creating a fictional 19th century US President. But the period during the collapse of Roman Britain was pretty chaotic and leaders could believably be lost to history.

They don't anymore? Haven't been to one in twenty years when all the ones near me closed.

Later on, Smalt becomes the premier serialized content provider and buys HBO and Netflix. Later on people will tell each other "Did you know Smalt originally made salt shakers?"

The difference then was that that was generally non-commerical products. Like the Internet soda machine at CMU (created in the 1980s!) these were created by students who were amazed at the new technology and were just trying to create a science-fiction future for fun. Things changed in the late 1990s when the dot-com…

I think I can say, with no exaggeration, that Razorback is among the finest killer giant boar films ever made.

Never even heard of it, which was a shame — from the description it was a mix of Shep giving monologues and musical acts so a bit like Garrison Keillor's radio show, but considering I greatly prefer Shepherd, it sounds great.

It's a metaphor of the alienation of the working classes under a capitalist system. Hopefully film schools teach entire seminars on the movie.

Also, the Communist regime in Afghanistan basically only controlled Kabul before the Soviet invasion that was supposedly to protect it.