I still have my $600 Cannondale R600 road bike from 1996 that I upgraded with Spinergy wheels and converted to triple front chainrings, and have put over 25,000 miles on. My other bike is a 2006 Cannondale R1000 that I bought new for $2,000. They are both more than enough for the Ultramarathon riding I used to do. At…

My mom had a fair amount of biographies of people who were the first to do things, and also books that were like one chapter each devoted to “heroes” like her, Babe Didrikson, Annie Oakley, etc. It was probably one of those. My mom was not a “strident” feminist (She did grow up in a very small town in Alaska, after…

I remember reading about her when I was a kid 45 or 50 years ago, but I have no idea where. I do remember that whatever book/article it was referred to her as “Gertrude”, not Trudy.

Loved the original movie, not even slightly interested in this.

I’m just disappointed they didn’t do it 20 years ago when Chenoweth and Menzel were still young enough to do it. I know Cheno was wanting to film it before it got too late for her.

That is so terrible! I took my 1987 Toyota Tercel wagon to a Test & Tune night once, and it did the quarter mile less than a second slower, and less than 5 mph slower through the traps. If it can barely beat my Tercel wagon grocery getter, it is not deserving of the Camaro name.

Wow. I didn’t know Condor Airlines was still around. We flew on Condor Airlines in 1973 to Frankfurt and back from LA for our 12 week Europe trip that summer. Considering all the churn in that industry in the last 51 years, color me shocked. I remember that we flew them instead of Lufthansa proper because back then…

Not specifically flat-chested, but the whole waif thing in general. He was not only against shapely upper bodies, he did not appear to like shapely lower bodies either. That’s why he hated Charisma Carpenter so much. She offended his idea of what pretty was.

Yes, he was never the White Savior or hero of the story. Toranaga was always the hero of the story. Blackthorne was just our viewpoint, but his function in driving the story was as a catalyst, not the hero.

Yes, there was a whole bit in the novel about Ishido having had his fortune read when he was younger, and having been told he would die a very old man. It’s part of why he was overconfident enough to try to take over. He did die a “very old man”, just not in the way he thought he would.

I definitely got a Yojimbo era Mifune vibe from him...except that unlike Mifune, Yabushige just stepped on one rake after another.

Considering how many rappers have shot each other over words, I fail to see the “playful competition” of it all. More hip-hop artists are murdered by each other every year than in the entirety of Rock, Soul, or Country music history.

I was coming here to say that! They had a chapter in a book of American Tall Tales that was published in the 1950's that I have. I think it was given to us by our grandmother. It was where I learned about Mike Fink, AB Stormalong, and many other legendary figures of American tall tales. It’s sitting in my bedroom…

Just the final chase scene rescues Death Proof. Honestly, IMO a top 3 or 5 chase scene all time. Zoe Bell was amazing!

I’ve loved that, and her stoicism. The original lady in the original Shogun was quite good, but Anna Sawai is definitely better.

I read the book and saw the original 40 years ago, so I knew it was coming, but I was (and am) super curious about how all the Shogun virgins were going to react. I’m guessing a lot of people are losing their shit that one of our leads is not making it to the final episode.

I’ve really loved that actor’s work in this show. He reminds me very much of a Yojimbo era Toshiro Mifune, if he was constantly stepping on rakes instead of winning.

Not so much focused on it, but it was definitely part of the overall picture it painted, was really probably only important with the reuniting of Blackthorne and his crew.

There are few better examples of, as the kids say, “fumbling the bag” in Hollywood today. She was a unicorn as a plus sized woman who was allowed to be characterized as both sexy, and fearsomely tough. She had the field all to herself, and would have had no competition until the arrival of Kali Reis the last couple of…

Heroes was a great show for 23/24 of a season. They fucked up the finale, and they were afraid to kill Sylar, which ruined the show. It got worse season after season until the final season which made me actively angry.