Apocalypse then and now
One area I didn't get into above but I wouldn't mind talking about here is the whole post-apocalyptic genre and how it's changed over the years. In some ways, EARTH ABIDES—progressively tiptoeing racial politics and timely references early on aside—read as kind of out-of-time to me. whereas…

Possible answer: She ran out of tuna fish.

This should be fixed now. Apparently it was, per a member of the web staff, a "transient issue with one of the web servers in the load balancer related to load." So now you know.

Looking into it….

Yes. _This_ is the feature that drives page views through the roof. Ahem.

We moved them out of the blog and into the features.

There's a great scene I didn't mention where Bond gets repulsed watching Darko kill a man from a distance in cold blood. It's further than he's willing to go. It's like he's seeing how ugly this business is and realizing he's not up to it. Another reason he kind of _had_ to die, if only temporarily, at the end of the…

Lotte Lenya, actually. But you were on the track when you named a female artist with leftist sympathies.

Wow. I haven't thought of WILD PALMS in years. All I really remember is a lounge singer singing "In My Room," an action scene set to "House Of The Rising Sun," and a what already seemed like a wrongheaded depiction of virtually reality. And the Belush.

I've got a VHS tape of them all. Thanks, eBay.

My wife, who's a few years younger than me, was so upset by this episode when it first aired that her parents wouldn't let her watch the show anymore. She had to wait until college to finish it out.

Must have been deleted by accident. Sorry.

27 DRESSES is a 2008 film. No doubt we'll see it next year.

It's Shelley. But not this episode.

Another silly tech moment: At one point Lane asks to use the FBI supercomputer. But she gets denied because the supercomputer is tied up in other supercomputer things. Stupid supercomputer bureaucracy!

I believe the killer somehow keeps moving to different addresses by taking of IP addresses (?) in Europe and Asia.

Something I left out
At one point one of Lane's co-workers shakes his head and as part of a litany of things wrong with the cyber world says something about "net neutrality." As if _that_ were somehow enabling the killer. It's kind of awesome. As this… Well, that's a spoiler. But let's just say that the early scenes…

I know. That threw me when I got to that part.

That's fair enough. Like I said, I think this show has potential. I'm not nuts about two of the three leads and I liked Glau better when she got to play the character a little less… robotically. But I'm going to go into the next episode in the spirit of the poster who wrote "a show with an intriguing premise and…

I don't think there's a direct connection between the look of these characters and minstrelsy but there's certainly room for confusion. Bosko, an early Warner/Schlesinger character began as a kind of hybrid between of the happy 1930s Mickey Mouse type and an African-American boy. He looked more like an amorphous…