We the Economy: A Harry Hazlitt Joint

Or the one where Calvin manages to roll his parents' car into a ditch, and Hobbes says a car like that is worth "at least $75."

NOBODY CAN PROVE CALVIN DID THAT

Almost done with Phillip K. Dick's Ubik. It's a great read. Dated in some of its technology descriptions but still a gripping story about (what I think is) heat death. Also couldn't help but notice at least two major Doctor Who plots were taken from or inspired by the story.

Mother Night is a little Vonnegut classic. I've said here and elsewhere that as you get older, Kurt seems less like a truth-teller and more like a troubled soul who can't embrace or forgive the complexity of the world. Mother Night, though, plays well to his worldview, I think, and makes for interesting reading…

In the spirit of the game, Myst the film will reach several dramatic high points and freeze as the CD struggles to load.

Capitalism, everyone! Let's give it another hand!

First clone to go straight from the petri dish into rehab.

"Two hours of medieval outlaws reciting Das Kapital? Where the hell is my checkbook, Steve?"

Middle English was a major inspiration for the Walkman.

I may have played that one. Do you randomly kill people with a bow? (Also see: The Ostermann Weekend)

"Reimagining Robin Hood" = tell the same story told since 1938, but in earth tones

"Hey, I'm not paying a million dollars for this quartet."

Maids, when you're young, never wed an old man.

TJ is actually quoting St. Patrick.

"Gee, Robespierre, it looks like you have something to say!"
"I certainly do!"
"I have to go. My home planet needs reason."
(Lifted out of frame)
Sign: Robespierre was guillotined on the way to his home planet

Tonight, on Niall of the Nine Hostages:

"Oh my god! That's not a peasant! That's Marie Antoin—" (gunfire)

"I ain't got time for this, Chief! I got pirates to flee, heathens to baptize and shamrocks to pluck, and you're gonna make me babysit some mewling little oblate? Hell no! Patricius works alone!"

Jesus — that is some really bad photoshopping. Dallas was apparently canceled because it was impossible to get the entire cast in the same room at the same time.