Archie may be a minor but he ain’t no child.

I didn’t interpret Luke’s remark to the tattooist the way you did. I thought it was about a tattoo.

As someone who was around in 1973 I really appreciate the costuming and the decor, since theatrical attempts at re-creating the Sixties/early Seventies almost invariably overdo it. In 1972/73 I had a very short dress and a pair of overalls that were just like Verdon’s flowery pants/top combination. Curiously, 2 years…

Don’t get your knickers in a twist looking for an insult. When A was first added to the abbreviation string it meant Ally.

I was offered HBO free for 6 months as part of some settlement Spectrum had with the state (?!) so I said sure. Now I get to watch the last season of GoT, having seen just one episode a few years ago. I barely know who is doing what to whom, but who cares. “Chernobyl” look excellent but so depressing. Just started…

I am not a great reader of contemporary science fiction, which is probably why I had never heard of the above writers except for Stephenson. Recently I read an illuminating preface/rant in “Memories and Visions: women’s fantasy and science fiction” which pointed out that women have always written sf but have been so…

But did they really mean “sociopath”? My understanding has always been that a psychopath is out of touch with reality; a sociopath knows what’s real but doesn’t care.

Well, we do need to exercise our antibodies.

It’s a musical. Everything is exaggerated : time, space, characters.

The servers were young guys and I suspect they just didn’t know any better. Or else they were brought up with “Waste not, want not”.

This was (cough cough) 51 years ago.

When I was in England many years ago the waiters would pour you a glass of water and if you didn’t drink it (or so they believed) they would pour it back into the pitcher.

On the one hand it makes sense not to throw out bread that no one has eaten. On the other, you have no idea whose paws have touched it. This is why I, as a customer, try to eat or squirrel away as much of the bread as I can.

I want to know what Cheryl Blossom’s lipstick is. There’s probably some forum on which I can find out...

I found “Altered States” to be a very enjoyable bad movie, but maybe that’s due to Ken Russell and to William Hurt’s body. Like “Network” and “Hospital” it is more hostile to women than it may seem at first.

You’re not alone. My senior prom was 50 years ago (!) and nobody got clutched about it. It was a DANCE, and you wore a nice dress (if you were a girl), not an evening gown, and there was something about you stayed out all night and then went to the shore (i.e. beach).

Yes, I knew guys who were about to be drafted for Vietnam and so signed up for the Navy or the Coast Guard to try to save their skins.

I couldn’t quite make out the title of the Nancy Drew that Nicole was reading. so I looked on the back of one of my daughter’s books. It’s “The Clue of the Dancing Puppet”. Hm.

That’s okay, I knew just what you meant.

I was distracted by the lushness of Aya Cash’s hair/wig. She did not look like someone who was going to be dead in a few months.