A friend of mine met him at a scifi convention where Hatch was making a pitch for his Galactica reboot. He had nothing but nice things to say about him, and he got a picture with Hatch, both wearing original BSG jackets. I'd always hoped Hatch's BSG would get made, but Zarek is a pretty good consolation prize.

I think it's the other way around: the picture was before he wrote that article.

Searching for a distant star / Heading off to Iscandar…

I haven't thought about Star Blazers in years. Great show; I watched it every day after school.

It's certainly lost some cachet but my impression is that because of reruns, 90s nostalgia, Julia-Louis Dreyfus' popularity, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and the show's contributions to popular culture (festivus, yada yada, soup nazi), there are a good number of younger millennials are still aware or even fans of Seinfeld.

Q.E.D.

If there's a career path Seinfeld seems to be imitating it's Billy Crystal: once-innovative comic gets older, starts scolding the youngins, gets involved with some sentimental/subpar projects that makes you forget that he was ever an innovative comedian.

I think the internet obsession/hated of that movie stems from how unabashedly and ubiquitously Seinfeld shilled for it. He had kept a tactfully modest profile post-Seinfeld, and all of a sudden he's guesting on talkshows and sitcoms advertising this shitty movie. I think half of NBC's ad buy was Bee Movie for a little…

By 'that genre' do you mean American punk or postpunk in general? In any case I think the most important book on 1980s 'alternative' music is Simon Reynolds' Rip It Up and Start Again (the British version; the US edition leaves out a couple of key chapters, including one on American indie rock.) Reynolds can be a bit…

Yeah, I'm hoping when they finish Smackdown they'll go back to adding more 80s/90s stuff. I'm happy with what they have but I've burned through most of the old stuff!

'Che will go out of his way to joke about the hypocrisy of partisanship (noting that Trump and Obama both signed a lot of executive orders), a tactic that lends credence to Che’s “tell it like it is” cred'

Yeah, if I do cancel it'll be because they stopped adding old stuff. It's been a year since they added stuff from the vault, and I can't possibly convey how little interested I am in Total Divas or Mick Foley's daughter. So I might drop it after Wrestlemania.

You think Bill Maher's going to take Yiannopoulous down? Maher's more likely to go down on him–their segment will almost certainly focus on those horrible Berkeley kids exercising their right to protest.

Considering how these days most music writing has been replaced by music thinkpieces, I'd like to see a return to some old-school mythologizing.

Neutron Bomb is an essential book for anyone interested in punk/postpunk. It helps that it's an oral history done well and long before the genre became a crutch for lazy online articles. R.I.P.

He may be, but I think Ray Stevens has right of first refusal.

'Are you honestly saying that the person who hid their emails in a basement server to avoid valid FOIA requests '

That's scary as hell.

My recollection is that every episode of the first season of Crossing Jordan had a scene with Jill Hennessy in some state of undress. That's the only reason I watched.

I would characterize it more as being cowardly and not taking advantage of the opportunity they had to mobilize against the tea party, but I agree with your sentiment and they should never be let off the hook.