Doesn't the "Exoskeleton" conversation from The Information allude to Scientology? I got the impression that it was about Dianetics, even though Beck himself doesn't speak.

And if you weren't turned off by just knowing he was a Scientologist, the "Exoskeleton" chatter from the end of The Information probably did it.

I've been fascinated by criticality accidents, in which fissile material is accidentally spurred into a nuclear reaction. The freakier ones are when scientists weren't careful handling potentially reactive materials and caused them to collide and cause the chain reaction. (Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin died in such…

It's plane to see that awl these jokes have gone off the rails.

@Dunk: The Max Rebo Band were Jabba's musicians. Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes provided the terpsichorean delights at the Tavern of Chalmun.

If I remember correctly, there's a scene in Funky Monks (a documentary of the Blood Sugar Sex Magik sessions and promotion) where Rubin and Flea are workshopping the bass line for "Give It Away." Rubin talks Flea into stripping the part down to just the slides and syncopated pops. Considering how adept Flea is at…

Sad to see him so superdeformed.

The Monstartup

"NO ONE HAS FORCED ME TO READ THIS"

I'm only in the first season, but I recall Rusty having a fetus dream in which a Monarch-like wombmate was trying to strangle him.

I had the Monarch's voice in my head earlier. Thanks for reintroducing it.

Dammit! Scooped again!

Maybe he heard something about acetic acid and pickled the body in vinegar.

It is kinda weird to see Walter from his frumpy period with hair. Such a transformation!

Ahem: Roma, MattS.

From Chinama?

InDEUXpendence Day: The French Save America's Ass Again

He has a one-man show at the Firestein Theater.

And it had a toy shaped like the alien's head that had the skyscrapers inside and you could drop a big plastic cannonball from a plastic spaceship and make the buildings fall down and go boom! I used my imagination and pretended I was flying over the city!

We have a local station in Columbia, SC, that plays about 40 years of rock/alternative/contemporary music, usually the less popular hits of the era mixed with current stuff. So we get Imagine Dragons and the Lumineers (and DAWES), but also Kenny Wayne Shepherd's "Blue on Black," Primitive Radio Gods' "Standing Outside…