But that's the kind of thing people only know if you tell them!

Not to mention drained by the time they finally make it home.

As a person who had a religious upbringing, I feel like it would take me another lifetime to get over all the weird sexual repression and hangups. Ironically I now no longer believe in other lifetimes.

She'll struggle to be more of a fuck up than her dear old Dad though…..

There's an episode of the Dana Gould Hour that covers L. Ron Hubbard and his relationship with Jack Parsons in some detail, that's quite good.

I assume it's some barbed crack implying the writer wants to be the next Pynchon or something but I can't say for sure, you'd have to email Theo Tait.

I don't have any definitive answers. We've been voting in right leaning governments but Labour haven't had a competent leader putting their policies across in a while and that may account for why they have done badly at the ballot box.

I liked Cordy because she has the least self-pity of anyone in the Buffy/Angelverse by the end.

"When a social democratic party becomes more or less a proponent for
financial liberalism it has abandoned the core of its own ideology and
become the Not Quite As Conservative or Liberal Party. The UK seems to
be more right-leaning than much of Europe though, so genuine social
democratic policies of the sort we have…

Some people want the things you state but by no means all and that's the problem. As our tastes in everything become more niche, two/three party systems don't really speak to the range of issues that concern people. My examples would be how our mainstream parties view things like climate change and the preservation of…

Well at least some people are managing to dodge their particular electoral bullets. Rock on Michelle :-) I'm glad you don't have a crazy far-right government to have to deal with.

I grew up with it but some of the stuff I loved and really felt moved by now makes me roll my eyes. Also the levels of self-pity displayed by the characters seem far less justified once you've grown up :-)

With Buffy, it's twenty years on from the TV show and I think attitudes (in certain circles at least) have shifted about what is and isn't acceptable to say. But Xander's douchebaggery is still pretty realistic for a teenage boy that age and it didn't stick out to me when I watched Buffy as a young teenager.

I'd look but I don't have two hours to burn ;-)

This is an example though of how successful women often get written about.

In the show I think part of the reason they try and cut him some slack for so long is that he's been in the group from the start and also they try and make allowances for him because he's older and lonely. Past a certain point though, an unpleasant toxic person is hard to be around (at any age).

In all seriousness it's one of those things where they have been copied and parodied so many times, it reflects on the original. Something similar also happened with Buffyspeak. S1 seems a bit on the nose when I rewatch it.

Nah P, The Matrix is perfect. Easily the best of the five films I've deliberately watched :-)

I watched some S5 of New Who (Vincent and the Doctor). I also listened to Beck's "Deadweight" a few times for some reason and caught up on the Bugle. It's not surprising but the Bugle with Andy and the rotating co-hosts feels a bit more loosey-goosey than it used to be with John Oliver.

Yeah, that's when ideally a writer would read back their words and think something like "this is coming off more masturbatory than I intended" or "I seem to have written a disturbing number of words about myself in this profile of a non-me person" ;-)