And now you know why a FOIA is a last resort. :-)

^^ This.

Yes and no. Ye they got it messed up, IIRC, but it was one of those cases where the info was right for the wrong reasons.

You sound like a fellow reporter :-)

Kudos to the AV Club and Abigail Covington. This is one of those topics that most people (like myself) are going to be unfamiliar with, and as such even if one might disagree on the details I certainly found it informative.

Yeah, it might be coincidence since I can't imagine the cast and crew of Farscape having the time. I realize TV schedules for shooting are quicker, but even assuming only a couple of weeks lead time, and given that they are in Australia, it just seems to me that the whole group would have had too much other stuff to…

Late to this. Scratch 'n Sniff was a fun one to watch the cold open for. In a way I was surprised that something like that hadn't happened to them earlier. I also really dug the whole "put one of my tentacles on your eye" scene, because the alien that does it is so freaking weird and the puppet crew really outdid…

"He was born in Budapest, Hungary, as Erdélyi Tamás, but his name was
changed to Thomas Erdelyi when his parents brought him to the United
States."

Good one. I thought of that too - negativity — as I said earlier, punk is all about what you are against, but less about what you are for. The latter s a much longer-lasting commitment to make, both politically and otherwise.

That's an interesting way of seeing it. I know that teenagers when I was one could listen to the Beatles and be ok with it, or the Stones (we seemed to like the latter a bit more but I suspect that had as much to do with them still being more active at that point). Either way, seems to me you're on to something there.

I got that, but I think the idea of punk as rejection of pop culture is sort of problematic all on its own. Either way, if we're asking about the "test of time" I'm asking what we mean by that. If early punk is supposed to be tied to time and place, that's fine, but then it's a bit harder for punks to make any claims…

Well, they got some. Either way that is the point. While they had impact, it isn't like they infused into pop culture the way some other acts have. It's almost like they got memory wiped, even though the image of a mohawked safety-pin-wearing dude has become visual shorthand for "weird/scary urban dweller".

Perhaps it's a bit more meta here, but let me pose this, looking at it from the perspective of someone who actually remembers the first time punk hit the public consciousness.

Um, he isn't in a coma. I know you were sort of joking, but that story is a bit too tragic. (I actually spoke to his brother some years back). He could use the money as he is still in care I think.

Ah right. For some reason I thought that you wrote 1880s. My bad. Anyhow, yeah, the Japanese being upset doesn't make much sense.

I never got that impression, unless the idea was that only now could it be mass-produced? the flashback to France was the 1980s…

I never got that impression, unless the idea was that only now could it be mass-produced? the flashback to France was the 1980s…

Yes but a Vietnamese person speaking French as their first language would be a bit like a French person from Vichy being raised to speak German. Awkward. People from the Philippines speak English for the same reason there was a French speaking population but I have met few Filipinos for whom English is the go-to, when…

It isn't just about power, tho. Morgan Freeman plays God himself in Bruce Almighty but that doesn't stop the whole film from being one long Magic Negro story.

Yeah, it isn't so much about causing offense, not directly, as much as "oh no, not this again" from a writer who you'd think would know better.