Thing is I was not into popular music growing up, so while I've absorbed some of the tastes of the times by osmosis I never really hammered down a Golden Age beyond which things started to decline.

Stop posting these before the weekend is over, dangit! Sunday evening is the latest WWE PPV and I'll be watching that- it's one of the B shows but a few events look promising. More on that after it airs.

You can imagine there would be sort of an initial panic- if the ability to reproduce mysteriously goes away, there's no reason to assume it'll ever come back, so it may seem that humanity is taking the slow route to extinction.

It actually made a profit, though. The budget was low enough that it only really needed one good weekend.

I dunno, I think the number of scenes where things are described rather than shown gets a bit weird- like you can tell this is a movie made by a novelist. Show-don't-tell isn't as strict a rule as all that, but I think he went a little overboard. Parts of it work though.

Been playing a lot of Doom. Well, specifically Doom II and TNT: Evilution- I'm up to the last level of the latter after spending a lot of time grounded on Mount Pain or whatever that one is. Fine engine, still holds up well today, lots of neat map designs in both packs, but seriously, fuck Arch-Viles.

Howard Shore's theme for this is so good. Very harsh and relentless.

Dawn of the Dead. Best horror film of all time.

Son of Frankenstein is also clearly the film Mel Brooks most heavily drew on for Young Frankenstein.

Found a nifty Modesty Blaise graphic novel that DC did back in 1994. Peter O'Donnell, who created the character, wrote it, and the art is by Dick Giordano- he's pretty damn on-model with Modesty and Willie, and I think the whole thing is basically just the first comic strip adventure refit to the comics page.

Turning into some kind of… Superman?

Democrat, yes, not sure how liberal. He was in Kansas, but in a KC suburb.

Visiting relatives in Omaha this week we ended up playing a few games. Dixit I've talked about before, a nice picture-based game similar to Apples to Apples in that it relies on guessing what other people think fits a concept. The gameplay is good and the art is just adorable.

For a long time my Representative in Congress was named Dennis Moore. I always thought of the sketch come election time.

"Once More With Feeling" got a nomination in a song category, but due to a glitch was left off of many ballots that were sent out. They fixed the glitch but most people had already voted already.

I think this being the last year may help them- like Return of the King getting all the Oscars that the first two LotR films didn't.

It must be something weird to do with the contracts- it's a large cast so they probably save money by not having everyone locked down for the full series, etc.

Brooklyn 99 being snubbed means that, officially, the Golden Globes are more credible than the Emmys.

Summer Shakespeare in the Park this week was The Winter's Tale, which is kind of a weird one. The first three acts play like Greek tragedy, with a King falsely accusing his wife of adultery and refusing to believe any evidence to the contrary until she dies and their son dies and her newborn daughter is exiled to…

The Welfare Program. THE Welfare Program.