The Husnock: B-

I only watch hard SF.

Ah, another Rachel Weisz fan!

A lot of the first season’s kind of kid’s-show-ish, but it gets really good when they reach the big ice capital of the Northern Water Tribe and just gets better and better from there.

Ha, a famous paleobotanist—good one, Lt. Broccoli!

HA HA HA

I guess that explains these monstrosities.

Of note is Stephen Jay Gould’s reaction to the book and film (he vastly preferred the book):

Chaos/complexity was supposed to revolutionize our understanding of everything but it’s more something that seeped into existing science than something that OH WOW REVOLUTIONIZED EVERYTHING!

PS 118 might be known for feeding into magnet schools, too (one of the extraordinary things about Hey Arnold! is that, unlike lots of kids’ shows, it was able to create drama without having the main characters be underdogs—Arnold’s really mature, Gerald’s the most popular kid and class, Helga and Phoebe the…

Take a look at these alta vistas!

Degas: sexy anti-Dreyfusard “bad boy” with a heart of gold.

The rehearsal rooms and off-stage at the Opéra de Paris were specifically designed so subscribers could spy on the dancers while practicing and changing. So…yeah.

Queen? Us denizens of the universe are an anarcho-syndicalist commune!

Your or You’re?

She’s actually quite a good singer, said the one person on the AVC who likes Lady Gaga.

She’s not even going to orbit. She’s like Alan Shepard to some future flamboyant pop star’s John Glenn.

If only his internet pseudonym weren’t so apt…

Although I tend to drop by here whenever I’m bored at the computer and feel like doing something with a bit of cyber-interpersonal interaction (i. e. pretty often), the only stuff on this site that I’d make sure I’d read (and catch up on if I missed) were the movie reviews (now mainly read elsewhere, though I’m fond…

Bah, I’ll say this now since there are two comments mentioning it in a row: I think we’re overselling the grit and grimness of Hey Arnold! here. It’s not an “inner city” as I understood it but more a diverse mixed-income, leaning towards working-middle class, area—you have old city money, a lot of people’s parents…