They were actually MTV's biggest band that first year.

Germans may not have been concerned because people are dumb. But it still drove unemployment higher, and Hitler sold them on who to blame.

Actually, it really was the catalyst. US suspended trade, which was the only thing keeping them afloat with European reparations. Pretty much established history in even conventional accounts of causes. Not the only factor but an bigly one.

The American Depression is what really created the conditions for a despairing Weimar Germany to embrace ethno-nationalism.

Not you, Zaxon, you're one of the good ones.

Also, Russia is a notorious pirate state, so nah.

It's just a meta riff on people walking while staring into tiny screens.

Ditto.

This is my friend's band. Psyched to see them here.

The Bartman

Deathstroke is like what happened David Carradine and Michael Hutchence, right? Too soon? Yeah, too soon.

When you're free flying with The Doors, you don't need no safety net!

Been saying it for years!

Minus the surprisingly excellent crooning voice and music that might have been OK in a soft-focus SoCal songwriter way, but more cracked, if only Charlie could have countenanced anyone telling him what to do in a recording studio in front of the 12 girls he brought with him to the Melcher sessions.

Kinda like Trump!

Oh, FUCK YES. I can basically recite that one. And I read it maybe twice, some 30(!) years ago.

Turtles all the way down.

Economical, too.

I'm five years older than Zack, also grew up in Maine, but haven't re-read It since I was a sophomore. My first Stephen King book was Carrie; I read them in order, starting at age 8. It didn't take me long to catch up to King's actual publishing schedule. I'm pretty sure I read It in hardback, hot off the presses. Had…

"We felt like, for 1,000 generations, the Jedi were kind of these leaders of the spiritual belief system. It's got to be like a Mecca or a Jerusalem, but in the Star Wars world.