In the 70s, you could take an abstract concept like a white leather, open-chested, rhinestone-covered milkman’s costume and just go with it.

YOU'RE DOGGONE RIGHT I DID!

It's not 'jaded cynicism' to highlight the issue people care most about. "Homicidal maniac loose" is more important/more newsworthy than "New subdivision approved."

"I mean, come on! How can they afford that huge castle on a maester's salary?"

This is good, because it's been like an hour since I've run into a wildly distorted caricature of what those in the media do.

Network is a good film, but it's not a great one. It's funny in parts, but you can boil down its message to the World War II generation wagging their fingers at baby boomers over all the TV they were watching. Everyone says it was "prescient" about the path of network news, but it seemed to be more interested in…

Three things:

Variety? That ain't been popular since seventy-six, dagnabbit!

Without Heather Matarazzo, Welcome to the Dollhouse would be utterly unwatchable.

Beach Planet Bingo

I got a continuity notification for this?

Confusingly, it will be titled The Matrix.

Ratings shrinking due to the atomization of media, huh? F—- you, pay me.

True. With an artist, though, you (irrationally) want your first time to be perfect.

Any good place to start with her?

Throwing Muses' The Real Ramona might be the best record of the 1990s. Kristen Hersh at her prime, Tonya Donnelly coming into her own as a songwriter — that's an album I hope to turn my daughter onto some day. Both women were/are too individual to fit into any box, but you can hear two strong, reflective and…

Sadly, yes.

I remember Newsweek being especially dismissive of Amos' work. It's one of many things that makes me look back on my Newsweek subscription with regret.

Who didn't use cocaine in the 70s? The Osmonds and Jonathan Richman?

*notes we did not start the fire*