I love the Bill & Ted movies, but it would be cruel to call them his peak, because that was before Keanu was, well, Keanu. He was a nobody on par with Alex Winter rather than the movie star he became.

You could say the same for Portman and Christensen — they've done some pretty respectable work since the Star Wars prequels but their performances there are still pretty cringeworthy (not that the scripts helped).

Go was very important to Nash — so much so that he even created a variant of it played on a hexagonal grid.

Yes. Which is a reminder to Americans that it isn't that foreign countries have a way more intellectual cinema scene than the US — they have lots of crap comedies and the like too. They just don't get a cinema release over here because pretty much the only theaters showing foreign movies are the art theaters which…

"But, But…we need to *update* it for the Millennials — the 1980s are too remote. We can set it in 1998 and have all these callbacks to Netscape and AOL!" — some TV exec, probably.

I love how Rick calls Jaguar out on how unoriginal his tragic backstory is — reminds me of how he called out the Devil for the hackiness of selling cursed objects.

Well, not really anywhere in practice. Embassies are ways of foreign governments communicating with the host government and so they pretty much need to be in the capital. Some major nations may have consulates in other major cities, though.

I like it because she is like Michael Bluth on Arrested Development or Diane Nguyen on Bojack Horseman — because they seem more reasonable and functional than the people around them the audience initially says this person is the good person here. But when you get to know them it isn't that simple.

“If you want something done right, you ought to do it yourself” — Stephen King, Maximum Overdrive trailer.

They just couldn't get the (two) dollars.

In a functioning city you are going to have all economic classes living there, so yeah, it *is* kind of an inevitable natural consequence (at least within the capitalist economic system we have). But if you make things so only wealthy people can afford to live someplace, then miraculously crime and poverty go down!…

Yes, although I'm not a fan of the renovation made about a decade ago. Although I think it was required to make it disabled-accessible. On the plus side the renovations to the captured German U-boat are excellent — they brought it indoors and have it in a recreated sub bay.

Why would a visitor from Europe or say, Thailand want to visit Chicago?

Also the Museum of Science and Industry. There really isn't another museum like it anywhere else. Sure, most cities have a science museum, but they are mostly for kids. Weirdly enough, the museum that reminds me most of the Museum of Science and Industry is the Smithsonian's Museum of American History. Half of that…

Well, the last point is because the Red Sox were traditionally loveable losers. As were the Cubs. Now that both teams have been getting better the downside is they may lose their cuddly natures.

Chicago is an an actual working city. So it has problems with poverty and crime. NYC also used to be an actual city too, with similar problems, but since the 1990s it's been turning into a theme park for tourists and stockbrokers. And personally, I'd rather go to an actual theme park (or Vegas) than wander around the…

Also they probably aren't getting enough fish and while they are mammals, being aquatic means their skin dries out easily.

For starters before things like Amazon were big there were far, far, fewer delivery people — people generally bought things in stores — yes, there were mail order catalogs, but people didn't buy anywhere near the amount of things needing delivery as they do now. So you have people with basically no experience…

I know! But none of the women I know seem to like mini-golf.

Yeah — it should be doeknots!