I've always had a bit of affection for Flea. He seems to have a good sense of humor about himself, and in general he strikes me as a congenial fellow. Good on him for doing what little he can about a serious problem.

I ate one for you earlier—a blue cheese burger from Murray's, a restaurant/jazz bar in Columbia, Missouri. Delicious and relatively inexpensive.

I'd agree it's not funny, personally, but not because of Barsanti's prose—which is often funny and the conceit here is itself fine—but just because colony collapse disorder freaks me the fuck out. I actually wouldn't mind seeing this becoming a trend—like it starts with Flea and other old school musicians and then…

The cartoon version of Dominic West, spying on Elba-fish, sees it and laughs, thus beginning a series of amusing run-ins between them.

I know the Moz really dug Richard Davalos, James Dean's co-star in East of Eden. Davalos appears on the covers for Strangeways, Here We Come and the U.S. editions of the Best… I and …Best II (a photograph of a biker couple—split in two—taken by Dennis Hopper graces the UK versions).

I dig the original, and I dig the White Stripes' cover.

The whole main OT cast is—understandably—looking a little worse for wear. I can't wait for the millions of think pieces about audiences' surprised reaction to seeing them onscreen, ageism, etc. I hope it doesn't happen but I'm guessing it will.

How do you feel about the hints that Luke has turned to the Dark Side? If memory serves, that was something he did in the now non-canonical EU to infiltrate the Sith and Leia or somebody had to bring him back. If that's the case I wonder how far down that same road they'll go.

"Cuckservative is an amalgamation of the word cuckold — the husband of an adulterous woman — and conservative…. 'The term at it's core may be racist'…. the pornographic connotations associated with 'cuckold' have made the word a subject of hand-wringing among some conservative commentators."

That's Ann Druyan. Along with being Sagan's widow, she's an author and producer who does science communication in her own right. She co-wrote the original series and spearheaded the creation of the recent follow-up, also co-producing and co-writing it with Seth MacFarlane, Neil deGrasse Tyson, et al.

I still cling to the belief that for GoT when they all say GRRM mapped out the whole story arc more or less for D&D in the beginning that it means he hit all the major beats and, gods forbid, something does happen to him, they know how to get the story more or less to where he wanted it to go.

Eh. I can kind of make sense of it. Maybe schlaum was referring to Lucas's use of archetypes from Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces and the pomo pastiche of other influences (e.g. WWII bomber footage, Hidden Fortress, Flash Gordon) on the one hand, and how modern culture eschews mythologies on the other.

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One of the two vloggers that I frequent for GoT fixes—either AltShiftX or Emergency Awesome—turned me onto the theory awhile back that all the showrunner/ actor/ network exec insistence that a certain character is "dead-dead" is in fact a fake out, as many believe, but they're doing it specifically because GRRM has…

Love that song… love Sister Sweetly, really. It holds up.

All good examples I flaked on.

Well, we obviously disagree on Last House, so no use belaboring the point.

Yep. Craven was at a Q and A session for horror directors that Robin Wood put together at the 1979 Toronto film festival, and Wood and the other organizers asked the directors who among them felt that filmmakers have a duty to engage social issues. Other directors there included George Romero, David Cronenberg, and…

Woozle Wuzzle?

Contemporary audiences agreed. Younger audiences loved it, but found the mixture of humor and violence disturbing. Older audiences hated it but kept coming back anyway.