Re: "the whole world went away" — I was JUST talking about the on-the-nose music cues in the comments on Monday's episode. But this one worked pretty well.

I kinda dig Icky Blossoms, and there's some cool VR stuff going on in my academic department right now, so this is interesting. Unfortunately my home connection is not nearly fast enough to do this in anything resembling HD resolution.

It's true, my father (my parents are grandparent age, but I have so far failed to generate any progeny) has even said to me that my folks don't like most modern sitcoms because without the laugh track they can't tell what's supposed to be a joke.

I often don't enjoy the musical montages in this show as much as others seem to, as they're often a little heavy-handed for my taste, but this one was great.

Is it weird that I got a laugh out of that? Not in a bad way, more like in the "How much do you know about chemistry?" "Enough" — BOOM exchange in an earlier season, where it was just a really satisfying explosion.

Yeah, it seemed to me that the character was meant to be a riff on Art Bell.

Thank God for Person of Interest. Think we'll ever get a review of QSO?

I have no idea, honestly. I was like 16 and really into cars when it came out. Now I'm 31 and drive a 10 year old Scion.

Which ones are good? I think I only ever saw the first one.

A classic King of the Hill episode centers in part on this.

He's been excellent in his recurring role in Person of Interest.

It's about on par with Like Rats, maybe a little worse (for my taste) because the song selection doesn't appeal to me nearly as much.

For the record, this is actually all piano (arranged/performed by Desertshore's pianist), there's no guitar on it.

I would agree with this up to a point, but the last few seasons have been pretty bad, even correcting for changing tastes.

I mean, I hear you I guess, except on the size part… San Diego is the eighth largest city in the U.S. with 1.3 million residents (3.5 million in the MSA). And although it may not have the same degree of culture as L.A. (few places do), it has a great dining scene, close ties with Mexico, and (purportedly) the highest…

Yeah, I was scrolling for this comment. It's getting distracting/annoying at this point. You're seriously going to let Fusco tell you all to fuck off rather than tell him something that, if he's not a total idiot, is probably not that far from what he already suspects anyway?

I would be… uh… surprised if oppo research couldn't dig up people with knowledge of Trump saying in private that mass immigration was a good thing in some context(s). Doesn't part of the mob ties story involve Polish immigrant labor?

This might be in this thread somewhere, in which case I apologize for the redundancy, but I think it's also important to point out that if Trump had only had one non-joke of an opponent early in the primary cycle, rather than the full clown car, he might never have gotten off the ground. The anti-Trump vote never…

I know you were at most semi-serious about the last bit, but if that bit were true, you'd think it would be worse then in San Diego, but this sort of thing seems way less common down there. It's cultural, I think. I'd rather live in San Diego any day.

They play in the city I'm moving to before I move there, and the city I'm moving away from after I've left. Good times. Good thing I've seen them like three other times.